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Asher Minns

University of East Anglia

Executive Director

 

Role at Tyndall
My job is to ensure excellent operations in support of researchers at all ranks at Tyndall UEA and the most effective internal comms and external evidence-based science communication and stakeholder engagement across all of the Tyndall Centre partnership.

Role at Council
Headquarters at UEA

Research Interests
I am a science communicator who specialises in knowledge transfer of climate change research to audiences that are outside of academia. I have over two decades of experience of UK and international environmental sciences research, most of it as a science communicator. I am interdisciplinary with a humanities MSc in Science Communication, a science degree in Environmental Biology, and I am a fully apprenticed Radar Engineer. This means that I have worked in communication since the age of 16 - taking responsibility for how we are heard not the same as what it is that we think we said. My University career has spanned the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College London, the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, and the Tyndall Centre, working from its Headquarters at the University of East Anglia, as well as a Secondment to Future Earth Europe for 2 years.

Personal website
 

Other website
https://vimeo.com/tyndallcentre

Contact information

E-mail: a.minns@uea.ac.uk

Phone: +44 0 1603 593900 / + 44 0 7880 547843

Postal Address
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK

Other Website
Future Earth

Twitter
Personal: @AsherMinns
Future Earth Europe: @FEEurope
Tyndall Centre: @TyndallCentre

Reports

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Towards a culture of low-carbon research for the 21st Century

The research community has highlighted for several decades the implications of greenhouse gas emissions for climate change. In response, world governments have agreed to limit global temperature change to 2°C, which requires drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. In advanced economies, a commitment to a 2°C limit generally represents a reduction of emissions of between 80-95% from the 1990 baseline. Despite this, emissions from international aviation increased by 53 % between 1990 and 2011 in those countries.

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The challenge of communicating unwelcome climate messages

With the probability that global temperature rise can be kept below the 2°C target continuing to diminish, citizens as well as economic and political decision makers need to engage with knowledge about the likelihood and implications of severe future impacts, and the scale of mitigation required to avoid them, the likes of which few want to hear. This working paper reflects on the challenges and offers guidance for the way ahead.

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Enhancing the accessibility of climate change data visuals

2017

Data visuals support communication of climate change. Yet they can be difficult for diverse stakeholders in society to understand. This new report, relevant to the work of the IPCC, provides guidance for researchers on how the accessibilty of data visuals can be enhanced while also maintaining scientific rigour.

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The Research Year Ahead 2018

Dear Colleagues, I wish you a successful year for 2018 and thank you all for your contributions to the life and dynamism of the Tyndall Centre for both the old year and the new one. And if you are reading this as a visitor to our website. First, welcome to the Tyndall Centre and thank you for visiting. Second, please do contact us with your insights and ideas on how the Tyndall Centre can continue to make a valuable difference.

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Become a climate communication hero in 2018 in six easy steps

Did your New Year Resolutions include something new to continue to make a professional difference to the world? Publish more? Flyless? Complete your PhD? Can I suggest one more professional pledge, that you engage the public more? You have something exciting and important to say to the world. You really do. I know this because I've been helping researchers communicate for nearly 20 years.

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Climate change and East Anglia - public discussion

2018

Climate change researchers from across the UK are gathering in Norwich to discuss on 12 September the challenges of global warming, what it might mean for the region and the UK, and what could happen next.

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