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Announcement of Fellows for the Climate Policy Creative Fellowship

14 October 2024

The Climate Policy Creative Fellowship is hosted by the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI) and co-run by digital story studio Fast Familiar and the UCL Climate Action Unit.

Photo of Laurie presenting to the fellows at a workshop for the SCRI project

What's the purpose of a Climate Policy Creative Fellowship?

Policymakers are in a unique position in society to deliver the transition to a more sustainable world. We want to understand how creative professionals can support decisionmakers in their roles of climate policymaking. 

The Climate Policy Creative Fellowship is an opportunity to explore this. The programme will bring together science, arts and policy practitioners to co-create new ways of enabling decisions in response to the risks of climate change.

The Climate Policy Creative Fellowship is hosted by the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI). The Climate Action Unit is working in partnership with digital story studio Fast Familiar to deliver the training for participants.

Introducing the Creative Policy Fellows 

After a two-month recruitment process, we’re pleased to announce the following eight Fellows will be taking part.

Over several months in 2024 and 2025, they will experiment with a range of new tools, form new creative partnerships, and engage with climate experts from across the SCRI network.  

Alongside these engagements, Fellows will trial ideas for different creative approaches which could help a policy audience to better connect their decision-making to the evolving risks of climate change. 

CPCF Fellows - 2024/2025 
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Imogen Dall

Imogen is a creative director with twelve years' experience crafting campaigns for diverse brands and causes from blue chip tech brands to grassroots movements. She has also directed festival-screened shorts, a nature documentary and a live comedy cabaret, and is the author of Burnout Survival Kit.

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Lara Ferris

Lara is a Strategy Director working with brands, businesses and trade bodies to shape cultural strategy and narrative to engage audiences. Most recently, Lara has balanced a role at Spring Studios with a Strategic Marketing MSc at Imperial Business School where she researched sustainability as a driver of innovation, resilience and competitive advantage.

Headshot of Holly - SCRI Fellow

Holly Greenland

Holly has twenty years’ experience in communications and engagement. She has developed arts and history campaigns for the BBC, democratic engagement programmes at UK Parliament, and consulted with a range of charities and public bodies through her agency, Social & Local CIC. Holly is also an indie author and recently completed her PhD in publishing.

Headshot of Alex - SCRI Fellow

Alex Lockwood

Alex is a writer of fiction and nonfiction books on climate change, environmental challenges and animals. He is a former academic, a co-founder of Animal Rebellion and other grassroots plant-based organisations, and a founding member of Hard Art. He works in narrative strategy for Absurd Intelligence.

Headshot of Marion - SCRI Fellow

Marion Atieno Osieyo

Marion is an environmental leader and storyteller. Her work and storytelling focus on the social dimensions of nature regeneration and how to foster intersectional, interspecies and culturally diverse solutions for the environment. She has previously worked with the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and UNHCR Innovation Service. She is also a Board Member of Global Greengrants Fund UK. In 2023, Marion launched the award-winning Black Earth Podcast.

Headshot of Ruby - SCRI Fellow

Ruby Pugh

Ruby is a Designer, Maker, Facilitator & Activist working across theatre, film, festivals, events, street art & protests. She is a visual dramaturg who believes in using the power of storytelling to breed empathy, amplify systematically excluded voices & engage communities. Recent design credits include; The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic)

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Jessica Riches

Jess is a writer and climate campaigner, and co-founder of Messy Filmmaking Collective. She has two original features and an adaptation in development. She has made two shorts and a podcast series starring Stephen Fry, and participated in film & TV labs with BFI, ZFF, Cinestory and Climate Spring.

Headshot of Michelle - SCRI Fellow

Michelle Sanders

Michelle is a documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on peoples’ relationships to the planet. She has worked on subjects including the threats of deep-sea mining, the trade in tortoises and tigers, the accelerating loss of arctic sea ice, and stopping development of oil fields in the North Sea.


Click here to find out more about the Fellows 

What is the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative

The Strategic Climate Risk Initiative (SCRI) is a ‘think-and-do’ tank with a dedicated staff and a network of partners across academia, policy research, and climate action. It is hosted by the Institute for Public Policy Research. The UCL Climate Action Unit is running several projects as part of the initiative; to find out more about these please email us at climateactionunit@ucl.ac.uk.