Overview
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 on the idea that finding ways to overcome these gaps is essential in order to develop cohesive and collective climate action and to combat widespread climate disinformation and vested interests.
This entails drawing together three distinct disciplines – deliberative democracy, science communication, and political psychology – to advance a novel and evidence-based understanding of effective democratic communication.
Key Information
- Project dates:September 2022 - August 2026
- Website:In development
- Contact:Professor Jane Suiter
Funder
Irish Research Council
