Portfolio Category: Research Affiliates

June A. Flora, PhD, is a senior research scientist at Stanford University’s Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (HSTAR) and Solutions Science Lab in the Department of Pediatrics.  Her research focuses on understanding the drivers of human behavior change and the potential of communication interventions. Her research is solution-focused on issues of climate change…

JT or JAGADISH THAKER (Ph.D. George Mason University) is a Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, New Zealand. His research examines ways to understand and enhance vulnerable communities adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in India. Dr. Thaker specializes in the fields of science and climate change communication, health communication,…

Abel Gustafson’s research develops more effective strategies for communicating science topics to the public. He has published research on how emotions, portrayals of uncertainty, motivated reasoning, and cumulative advantage each influence the ways in which different types of people respond to information about sustainability and sustainable tech. At the Yale Program for Climate Change Communication, Abel…

Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., is a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where he directs the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. At Cambridge, he is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at Churchill College. His research explores the psychology of social influence, risk,…