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Asher Minns

University of East Anglia

Executive Director

 

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

Role at Council
Headquarters at UEA

Research Interests
I am a science communicator who specialises in knowledge transfer of climate change and other environmental 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. You'd like to know how to deliver the best engagement and communication? How you are heard is not the same as what you think you 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.

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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

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Twitter
Personal: @AsherMinns
Tyndall Centre: @TyndallCentre

Reports

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

We argue that the research community needs a roadmap to reduce its emissions following government targets, which ironically are based on findings of the research community. 

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The challenge of communicating unwelcome climate messages

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.

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Enhancing the accessibility of climate change data visuals

January 1, 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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Interim Director Announcement

January 8, 2019

The Governing Body of the Tyndall Centre, the Tyndall Council, is pleased to announce that Prof Carly McLachlan is now Interim Tyndall Director of the Tyndall Centre. Carly remains as Director of Tyndall Centre Manchester. Carly's research on engaging various stakeholders with energy and sustainability issues is at the heart of efforts to address climate change.

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