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Public perception of shale gas extraction in the UK: How people's views are changing
(2013)
Global energy consumption is forecast to increase at an average annual rate of 1.6 % over the next two decades with total consumption rising from 504.7 to 769.8 quads between 2008 and 2035, according to EIA figures.1 ...
Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors and the argument from catastrophe
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
Geoengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the atmo- sphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and the media. This article ...
Fracking on YouTube: Exploring Risks, Benefits and Human Values.
(White Horse Press, 2014-10-01)
Fracking or the extraction of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing of rock has become a contested topic, especially in the United States, where it has been deployed on a large scale, and in Europe where it is still largely ...
Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)? A transivity analysis
(Sage, 2017-06-21)
The increase in infections resistant to the existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe; however, among the public there is a sense ...
A "morning-after" pill for HIV? Social representations of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV in the British print media.
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-08-23)
Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is a biomedical approach to HIV prevention that is administered after a potential exposure to the virus. Although it was originally approved in the UK for occupational exposure to HIV among ...
Polarised press reporting about HIV prevention: Social representations of pre-exposure prophylaxis in the UK press
(Sage, 2016-05-22)
Pre-exposure prophylaxis is a novel biomedical HIV prevention option for individuals at high risk of HIV acquisition. Although pre-exposure prophylaxis has yielded encouraging results in various clinical trials, opponents ...
Fecal microbiota transplants: Emerging social representations in the English-language print media
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-07-16)
This study investigates how English-language news sources have represented fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). FMT involves transferring stool from a healthy donor to a recipient with a dysfunctional intestinal flora in ...
When Climate Science Became Climate Politics: British Media Representations of Climate Change in 1988.
(SAGE, 2012-05-11)
Climate change has become a pressing environmental concern for scientists, social commentators and politicians. Previous social science research has explored media representations of climate change in various temporal and ...
Contesting Science by Appealing to its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in The Daily Mail.
(SAGE, 2012)
This study examines the rhetorical aspects of social contestation of climate change in reader comments published in the Daily Mail, subsequent to climategate. The following themes are reported: (1) denigration of climate ...
UK Media Representations of Carbon Capture and Storage: Actors, Frames and Metaphors
(Metaphor and the Social World, 2013)
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of ...
