In this episode IDE members Sean Owens and Callum Swift are joined by Dr. Clare Watson, a passionate academic and campaigner who has a long history of environmental and social activism. Her background was in social work, since then she has co-authored a book ‘Campaigns, and how to win them’, and written a blog entitled ‘Chasing Hubcaps’ which looks at the influence of human psychology behaviour in peoples reaction to climate change. She completed her PhD at the Marei institute at UCC which looked at the community response to climate change and intersections of behaviour, and she is currently involved with community energy projects in Kerry.

In this broad reaching and deeply reflective conversation they discuss the many lessons she has learn't from a life spent trying to change people's minds about environmental issues, how human psychology plays a vital role in shaping our actions, the need for action-based changes rather than ideology based changes, engaging local communities, grassroots organisations such as the GAA, citizens assemblies, community energy and much more!

http://chasinghubcaps.com/index/index.php/climate-change-psychology-articles/