LORRAINE WHITMARSH

University of Bath, UK

Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, MBE, is an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, energy and transport, based in the Department of Psychology, University of Bath. She is Director of the ESRC-funded UK Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST). She regularly advises governmental and other organisations on low-carbon behaviour change and climate change communication, was one of the expert leads for Climate Assembly UK, and Lead Author for IPCC’s Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report. Her research projects have included studies of meat consumption, energy efficiency behaviours, waste reduction and carrier bag reuse, perceptions of smart technologies and electric vehicles, low-carbon lifestyles, and responses to climate change.

KEYNOTE TOPIC: "ENGAGING THE PUBLIC WITH CLIMATE CHANGE"

WORKSHOP III: "CHANGING BEHAVIOUR TO TACKLE THE CLIMATE CRISIS"

KIM-PONG TAM

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Kim-Pong Tam is interested in humans’ connection to nature and their responses to global environmental change. His primary research focus is to understand how people construe their relationship with nature and the emotional and behavioral implications of such construal. Some examples of his output in this direction include his works on anthropomorphism of nature, connectedness to nature, empathy with nature, and, most recently, gratitude to nature. Another research focus of his is to uncover the cross-national variability of phenomena regarding environmental attitude and pro-environmental behavior. For example, he demonstrated that the relationship between environmental concern and environmental action varies systematically along the cultural orientations and political contexts in different societies. In two recent systematic reviews, he also observed that psychological research regarding climate change specifically and human-environment relationships in general requires an expansion in terms of geographic representation. In his recent projects, he has expanded his interest to the understanding of the socio-political dynamics behind people’s collective responses to environmental problems and also the various psychological processes behind public support for climate change policies. Kim-Pong Tam is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Social Psychology and an Associate Editor of Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology and PsyEcology. He is also serving on the editorial boards of Journal of Environmental Psychology, Global Environmental Psychology, PLOS Climate, Personality and Social Psychology Review, British Journal of Social Psychology, and Royal Society Open Science.

KEYNOTE TOPIC: "ENRICHING ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WITH CROSS-CULTURAL AND CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS"

WORKSHOP I
TOPIC: "CONDUCTING YOUR OWN CROSS-CULTURAL/ CROSS-NATIONAL STUDY"

HELEN LANDMANN

FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Dr. Helen Landmann is a community psychologist combining environmental and social psychology. Her research focuses on the role of emotions in the context of environmental protection and migration. She is spokesperson of the research cluster “Emotions and Norms for Sustainable Development” at the FernUniversität in Hagen and spokesperson of the “Expert Network for Social Psychology on Forced Migration and Integration”. Together with other members of the “Initiative Environmental Psychology” (IPU e.V.), she develops open educational resources on psychology of socio-ecological change.

KEYNOTE TOPIC: "EMOTIONS AND COLLECTIVE CLIMATE ACTION"

WORKSHOP II

TOPIC: "EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TOWARDS NATURE"