Research & articles
I have conducted research and evaluation for over 20 years, in organisations and academically, and completed a PhD in 2017. A full list of reports and articles with citations is available here.
I am interested in exploring human-nature relationships to understand the psychological, linguistic, social, spiritual and biological factors, and how these factors interact, to influence that relationship. Learning from my research is shared in articles and reports, in talks and workshops, and it informs my approach to coaching and to teaching mindfulness and nature connection.
Research reports and academic articles
The Emotional Experience of Members of Scotland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change (2022)
Scotland’s Climate Assembly – process, impact and assembly member experience: research report (2022, with Dr Stephen Elstub and others)
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation: A global evidence map of academic literature (2020, with Dr Jan Petzold and others)
Facing up to ecological crisis: a psychosocial perspective from climate psychology (2019, with Emeritus Prof Paul Hoggett, chapter in book on climate change)
An integrative methodology for investigating lived experience and the psychosocial factors influencing environmental cognition and behaviour (2019, chapter in book on climate psychology)
How cognitive frames about nature may affect felt sense of nature connectedness (2018)
Transformation, adaptation and universalism (2018)
Psychosocial factors influencing the experience of sustainability professionals (2017, this paper won an award)
Psychosocial factors affecting enactment of pro-environmental values by individuals in their work to influence organisational practices (2017, PhD thesis)
Selected articles and essays
The Long Return – an essay about belonging (2020)
“Fighting” climate change: an analysis of a metaphor and its problematic entailments (2020)
Conflicted about emotions: ecological grief, love and truth (2018)
Trapped in techno-scientism; is this hindering Manchester becoming an eco-city? (2014)
A tale of two cities: the Manchester that loves and hates wild nature (2013)
Nadine Andrews : life-friendly practices 