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Dr Robert A. Brennan is a social psychologist who joined the FuJo team as a Postdoctoral Researcher in November 2024. He holds an Honours BSc in Psychology and an Erasmus Mundus Joint MSc in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Society (Global MINDS). In 2020, he worked as a research assistant at Eötvös Loránd University on multinational projects PolRom and MisMiE. He completed his PhD at the University of York in 2024, researching the extent to which apparent dehumanization can be explained by intergroup preference. He contributes to the COMDEL project at FuJo, researching the impact of public deliberation on individual attitudes and climate change misperceptions.
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The Irish Research Council awarded a prestigious Consolidator Laureate Award to Prof. Jane Suiter for the COMDEL project. COMDEL’s ambition is to advance frontier research on the role of deliberation in addressing climate change. Specifically, it aims to deliver new theoretical and empirical insights into the capacity of deliberation to bridge communication and knowledge gaps between climate scientists, citizens, media actors, and elite policymakers concerning climate change. It is premised o...