SSH partner for biodiversity narratives, power and communication interventions

The Bonn Applied English Linguistics (BAEL) group at the University of Bonn is interested in joining an established consortium for HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-03, “Systemic approaches to accelerate transformative change for biodiversity.”

We offer expertise in corpus and discourse analysis, AI-assisted analysis of large-scale public communication, multilingual and cross-cultural comparison, and experimental methods. A possible research contribution would analyse how narratives, norms, linguistic framing, actor visibility and power asymmetries shape the legitimacy and uptake of nature-positive policies and practices. Building on this analysis, communication interventions could be co-designed with relevant stakeholders and experimentally evaluated in connection with the consortium’s ecological case studies.

We are seeking a consortium that already covers biodiversity science, ecological outcome measures, empirical case-study sites and relevant stakeholder partnerships. We are interested in a clearly defined and funded scientific role focusing on the social and communicative mechanisms of transformative change.