Deadline: August 28, 2024
Applications are open for the Climate Policy Creative Fellowship 2024. This experimental Fellowship equips creative storytellers to help policymakers make better decisions about climate change. This interdisciplinary collaboration will explore how more compelling narratives could enable policymakers to take better decisions on climate change and communicate them to the public.
Policy to tackle climate change is not keeping up with the risks posed by climate change. There are lots of reasons for this but one of them is that climate risk information produced by scientists could be communicated in a way that is more helpful for decision-makers in the policy community.
This programme responds to the need for science, arts and policy communities to collaborate on dynamic strategies for decision-making in response to climate risk. Through this Fellowship, participants will develop the skills, knowledge and practice to help policy audiences engage with climate risk information in ways that could improve their decisions. This Fellowship is for experienced creative storytellers who are keen to use their skills to enable policy action on climate change.
Cost
- All participants invited to attend the introductory workshop will be paid an honorarium of £100.
- Selected Fellows will be paid a fee of £1750, split into 2 instalments. (This is calculated as a day rate of £250, attending 7 days of workshops).
- Support with travel costs will be available for Fellows based outside London.
- Support with access costs will be available.
Eligibility
- Open to creative storytellers e.g., working in theatre, poetry, prose, film, television, podcasts, games, creative agencies, social purpose campaigning organisations. Your work is English language based and could be factual or fictional. You might call yourself a writer or a director or a designer or something else.
- People with ‘experience and a developed sense of their own practice’. What does this mean? If you’ve just graduated or started making work, this probably isn’t for you. You’ve probably been working in your field for 5-10 years and done a decent handful of projects. You’re not panicked by the idea of coming up with ideas and collaborating interdisciplinarily.
- People who are interested in exploring what it means to use their skills in an instrumental way, to help policymakers. They get that it can be annoying when artists and creative people are expected to use their skills to fix all the problems of the world. If you’ve had enough of that, this Fellowship is probably not for you. If you’re excited by the idea of finding creative ways to engage audiences with complex subjects in a less purely artistic sense, read on.
- People with an interest in working in the climate space – but you don’t need previous experience of projects related to this.
- People who can travel to in-person sessions in London on the specific dates.
Application
For more information, visit Climate Policy Creative Fellowship.
