01 | Summary
02 | Areas of Interest
03 | Methods
04 | Projects

Neil Ever Osborne is an Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University.

As a social scientist and public scholar, he is interested in examining the converging social and environmental issues that narrate our times in a changing — and warming — world, along with the effective means to communicate these issues to the public and critical stakeholders to invite meaningful action.

More specifically, Osborne’s research aims to understand better the media’s effect on audiences’ real-life morals, values, and behaviours — this includes how narratives of all kinds can more effectively foster sustained engagement with solutions to the climate crisis.

In this pursuit, he uses an evidence-based approach to inform the research questions in the projects noted below.

Note: Osborne was recently appointed an Adjunct professor on the faculty of the Sustainability Studies Masters of Arts (M.A) at Trent University. He is accepting statements of interest from students seeking graduate work in environmental and climate communications.

• Climate communications
• Reframing environmental discourse
• Visual storytelling and photography
• Biological and cultural diversity (i.e., the biosphere and ethnosphere) and societal pressures that endanger both
• Protected area designation and conservation (i.e., primarily in the polar, tropical regions, and near my home in Canada)

• Social science and ethnography, including experimental, survey, and in-depth interviews and narrative workshops (focus groups)
• Eye-witness reporting with a camera
• Documentary assignments
• Field expeditions to local and global locales, often remote, for wildlife mark-recapture studies