Profile
Chiara is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries exploring environmental communication through the Danube river's perspective, using decolonial methodologies that recognize rivers as communicative partners alongside riverine communities.
Academic background
Chiara completed her MSc in Conservation Science and Policy at Exeter University Cornwall Campus in 2014, and her undergraduate degree in Development Studies and Economics at SOAS in 2003. She is a practitioner who worked alongside human rights defenders in Colombia, Ecuador and Nepal for a few years before joining a community radio in Cornwall. Here, she used the platform to explore and engage with environmental communication.
PhD research
My research explores decolonial approaches to environmental communication, focusing on relational methodologies that recognize rivers as active participants in knowledge creation. Working with the Danube river system, I'm particularly interested in how we might move from communicating about environmental issues to communicating with more-than-human beings, and how riverine communities maintain deep relationships with waterways
PhD supervisors
Chiara’s PhD is supervised by Professor Thomas Tufte and Professor Jo Tacchi.
Awards, grants or scholarships received
Chiara was awarded a Techne scholarship, an Arts and Humanities Doctoral Training Partnership.