University of Exeter
Saffron O’Neill is Professor in Geography. Her research explores the social science dimensions of climate variability and change, particularly focusing on communication and public engagement. Her research specialism is the visual communication of climate change. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship on this topic titled ‘The Visual Life of Climate Change’ (2021-2023) and an ESRC Future Leaders Fellowship (2012-2017).
Saffron is Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) (2023-2025) funded via philanthropy and University of Exeter. Saffron is also a Co-Director (Communications and Outreach) of the ESRC-funded ACCESS network (Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science) (2021-2026).
From 2023 onwards, Saffron is Director of EDI within the Geography department, a role shared with Dr Dunia Urrego. She is also a University Autism Champion.
Saffron tweets regularly: about climate change, communication, media, visuals, imagery and on working towards a more inclusive research culture. Find her @SaffronJONeill.