The Role of Humanities and Social Sciences in Addressing the Problems of Climate Change

The humanities and social sciences have an important role to play in helping us find different ways to think and talk about climate change, and to engage with the defining issue of our times. In this podcast, we look at the differences between the humanities and the social sciences and speak to our guests about how their expertise and research in film studies and policy studies can help to bring about climate action.  

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins

Guests:  Janet Walker, Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Pat Brereton, Professor in the School of Communications, DCU, and Diarmuid Torney, Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government, DCU.

In the intro sequence to this episode you heard extracts from key note addresses made at our annual conferences by Hildegarde Naughton in her capacity as Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action, 2019 and Michael D Higgins, President of Ireland launching the DCU Centre for Climate and Society in 2022.  All speeches can be heard in full on our website dcu.ie/climate