Julie Doyle

Professor Julie Doyle researches in media and communication and is an authority on climate communication. Her research examines the ways in which media and culture shape our understandings of, and responses to, climate change.

With a particular focus upon visual and creative communication, Prof. Doyle works collaboratively with visual artists and cultural educators, and has provided consultancy for environmental NGOs, government and the sustainability communications sector on best practice for climate and environmental communication. Her research on media and climate change has been cited in the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Scientfiic Assessment Reports (IPCC 2018, 2022).

Professor Doyle was a member of the founding Board of Directors of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) and was Director of the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics. She was the University's Unit of Assessment Lead for D34 Communication, Media and Cultural Studies; Library and Information Management (REF 2021), and is also leading it's REF2029 submission for D34.

Watch Professor Doyle's inaugural lecture, 'Communicating Climate Change in an Age of (Un)Certainty' (May 2017).

Research Impact

Professor Doyle co-authored a REF2021 impact case study on Mobilising Visual Communication for Socio-Political Change which outlines her research impact on young people's increased sense of climate agency, creating new forms of climate activism and engagement, and changing the communication and organisational practices of arts and environmental organisations.

Professor Doyle has supervised doctoral work on creative and visual climate change communication and engagement, media discourses of environment, gender and popular culture, branding and consumption. She would be happy to supervise work on any aspect of:

* climate and environmental communication 

* creative climate communication and engagement

* media, popular culture and environment

* climate activism and social movements

* visual climate and environmental communication

* veganism, popular culture/media and ethics

* intersectional feminist ecological ethics

Completed students, awarded the degree of PhD:

Dr Gabriela Ramirez Galindo (2026). 'Mediating climate justice in food security: A comparative analysis of British and Mexican news representation'

Dr Francesca Kilpatrick (2026). '"Humanity is waging war on nature": Security narratives and securitisation in UK climate campaigning discourse between 2018-2020.

Dr Maia Brons (2025). 'Water mobilities in an urban fringe: Exploring the junction of mundane mobile experiences and water-related challenges in Newham, East London'. University of Brighton.

Dr Viktoria Erlacher-Downing (2024). 'Climate change and mental health: a co-produced, transformative study with young people in Blackpool'. University of Brighton.

Dr Kate Monson (2024). 'Staying with the muddle: Learning to live well on anthropocene isalnd'. University of Brighton.                               

Dr Shai Kassirer (2020). ‘Media Analysis of Hydro-Policies for Climate-Resilience in Israel: Depoliticisation of Desalination Discourse (2001-2018)’. University of Brighton.

Dr Lucy O’Brien (2018). ‘Express Yourself: Reframing women’s participation, agency and power in popular music’. PhD by Publication. University of Brighton.

Dr Antigoni Themistokleous (2018). ‘Self regulation by the press in Cyprus’. University of Brighton.

Dr Chloe Peacock (2013). ‘Double Distinction’: An analysis of consumer participation in Apple branding’. University of Brighton.

Dr Joanna Boehnert (2012). ‘The Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy’. University of Brighton.