Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Raven Cretney

Datum
10. Juli 2025 

Online Lec­ture

Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In Con­ver­sa­tion with Raven Cretney
10th July 2025

In Sep­tem­ber 2023, we launched an online ‘Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In con­ver­sa­tion with…’ series for peo­ple that are inter­est­ed in reflect­ing on and/or shar­ing expe­ri­ences around dis­abil­i­ty and the cli­mate cri­sis. This is part of the Sens­ing Cli­mate project, led by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Exeter. You can read more about the project and tune into past events online: https://sensing-climate.com/events

We’re delight­ed to be joined on Thurs­day 10th July, 8.30–10am BST (7.30–9pm in New Zealand) by Raven Cret­ney, Senior Lec­tur­er at Lin­coln Uni­ver­si­ty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Raven’s research focus­es on col­lec­tive action and pol­i­cy change relat­ing to post-dis­as­ter and envi­ron­men­tal issues. Her work spans sev­er­al top­ics, includ­ing man­aged retreat and cli­mate adap­ta­tion, the role of com­mu­ni­ty scale action and lead­er­ship in catalysing envi­ron­men­tal change, and the evo­lu­tion of activism and social move­ments. In our ses­sion, Raven will dis­cuss oppor­tu­ni­ties for dis­abil­i­ty-led cli­mate adap­ta­tion, the pos­si­bil­i­ties for learn­ing from past events and the need for care­ful nav­i­ga­tion of cri­sis pol­i­tics in build­ing sol­i­dar­i­ty across and with­in com­mu­ni­ties. Read more about the ses­sion online: https://sensing-climate.com/events/raven-cretney Access the sign up form online: https://forms.office.com/e/fVr6ESpM4h

If the sign-up forms are not acces­si­ble to you, please do email (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your inter­ests in join­ing instead. We will then send round a Zoom sign-in link about a week before each event.