The effect of unconventional advocates on public support for climate policy
Research team
- Dr. Bec Colvin
- Professor Winnifred Louis (UQ)
- Professor Kelly Fielding (UQ)
- Xiongshi Wang
- Sarah Boddington
Funding agency
Research summary
This ARC Discovery Project (2022-2025) aims to discover whether the presence of unconventional climate advocates in public debate can foster broad-based support for climate policy in Australia. Unconventional advocates include political conservatives, farmers, resource industry workers, and businesspeople. The project expects to generate new knowledge about the role of intersectional social identities in contentious policy debates. Expected outcomes of this project include evidence-based insights on how to reduce social division about climate policy. This should provide significant benefits such as guidance for policy actors for how to overcome social cleavages to implement climate policy, with relevance to other contentious policy domains.
