Demi Wilton

Thank you!

With thanks to @mybcu.bsky.social for supporting the application!

Really pleased to share I've been awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social Small Grant for 'Methodologies in World-Literature'

The project brings together collaborators across disciplines to run methods labs on world-lit approaches—all feeding into an edited collection. Watch this space! 📚 🌎

Thinking of presenting on the #envhum at MLA 2027? ASLE has 2 session calls, consider a submission. Deadline for both is March 11, 2026: www.asle.org/calls-for-pa...

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Doctoral Landscape Awards The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...

BCU is currently advertising 6 new funded AHRC PhD studentships.

If you’d like to explore environmental writing, migration, or world literature, I’d be delighted to talk about potential projects!

Please share/ reach out if you are interested 📚🌳

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Are you teaching an environmental studies/Global South/Postcolonial and Global Studies class? If so, as the COP30 climate talks get closer, you may want to check out/assign my recent open-access article "The Failure of Climate Dialogue: Why Global South Voices Must Be Climate Talk Leaders" 👇

No problem at all -- I'll be returning to it in my own research, I'm sure :)

A little late resharing this announcement as I'm still not fully Bluesky literate but huge congrats to all the winners of the ASLE-UKI book awards this year!

I sat as a judge for the critical prize and all of our shortlisted entries this year were excellent . Saharan Winds truly is a must read!

Green Listening: Discussions in Ecocriticism Podcast · ASLE-UKI · This podcast is run by the ASLE-UKI Postgraduate and Early Career Representatives. You can support ASLE-UKI by donating via this link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button...

Did you know that ASLE-UKI has a podcast? 🎧

Press play and follow 'Green Listening: Discussions in Ecocriticism' 🌿

We have exciting episodes lined up! 🎤

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Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities The book examines non-Western frameworks in environmental humanities, critiquing dominant paradigms and advancing discourse on diverse human-environment relationships in global contexts.

I'm happy to share the open-access book "Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities", which includes my article.
Big thanks to Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Krzysztof Skonieczny, and Paweł Piszczatowski.
shorturl.at/8TzCi

Verify Live is a smart move by the BBC to build transparency.
But early coverage leans international.
We see untapped potential in applying the same rigour to UK politics.

Check out our new piece in The Conversation - theconversation.com/bbc-verify-l...

Today, I'm attending @womeninworld-lit.bsky.social at Warwick Uni. It's been a pleasure to see a hybrid conference working at its best and to catch up with all the amazing developments in this diverse field, after 8 months feeling out of the loop on maternity leave!

Europe's economic woes have nothing to do with climate policy, says ex-Merkel advisor European industry is wrong to blame the Green Deal for its own failures, according to Ottmar Edenhofer, a leading climate economist. To remain economically competitive, the EU must stick to its ambiti...

Europe's economic woes have nothing to do with #ClimatePolicy, says PIK Director Ottmar #Edenhofer in an interview with @ftm.eu. “Climate damage is going to be a fundamental threat to our #Economy and prosperity.”
www.ftm.eu/articles/ott... (€)

Background shows a forest fire, foreground is a silhouette of a person inside which is an image of a healthy forest. White reads "Right Here Right Now Global Climate Summit" and there are also logos for UN Human Rights and the University of Oxford at the bottom of the image.

Climate change is a human rights crisis.

Join @ox.ac.uk, UN Human Rights, IUCA, and unis across the world for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on climate change and human rights. #RHRNClimate

Global plenary: 4 & 5 June
Oxford Local Programme: 2 - 8 June

www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

At least 27 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire at food point, Gaza officials say Gaza spokesperson says Israel fired with tanks and drones as Israeli military acknowledges troops shot at ‘suspects’

Absolutely horrifying. Palestinians gunned down while trying to access food. Leaders across the world have a duty to speak out against these continuing atrocities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Solidarity to my colleagues at BCU striking today. Baby Etta and I are in full support from home 🪧

Manuel SuterManuel Suter • 1st • 1st Research in Behavioral & Ecological Economics (Dr. rer. oec. | PhD)Research in Behavioral & Ecological Economics (Dr. rer. oec. | PhD) 1h • Edited • 1 hour ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Do researchers believe in global green growth (i.e. the idea that continued economic growth can be achieved sustainably)? We explored this question in a new study, surveying 3,028 researchers from 101 countries — all of whom have published in leading peer-reviewed journals. 📊 What we found: 🔹59% of respondents believe green growth is achievable on a global scale. 🔹Economists are more optimistic (69%) than non-economists (51%). 🔹There are large variations in green growth endorsement across scientific disciplines, with the highest green growth endorsement by researchers from the field Economics, Econometrics and Finance (74%) and the lowest from researchers in the field Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%). 🔹Even among green growth believers, there are considerable differences with regard to the assessment of the feasibility of key conditions for green growth like absolute decoupling of economic growth from resource and energy use. 🔹Green growth endorsement was most strongly assosciated with the belief that sustained economic growth is essential for human well-being. This may imply that green growth beliefs among researchers are influenced by ideology. 🌍 Our findings suggest that, despite its widespread political popularity, there is no global scientific consensus on the viability of global green growth. 📄 The article has been published in the journal PLOS Climate (open access, see link below). A big thank you to my fantastic co-authors Noel Strahm, Till Bundeli, Kaja Kaessner, Viktoria Cologna, Oreskes Naomi, and Sebastian Berger. Link to Journal Article: https://lnkd.in/eRDqaN7A hashtag#GreenGrowth hashtag#Degrowth hashtag#Agrowth hashtag#Sustainability hashtag#EnvironmentalPolicy hashtag#ClimatePolicy ha…

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Ridiculously interesting study - who in the research community beliefs in, supports or rejects 'green growth' as a model?

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You have 5 days left to nominate (or self nominate!) work for the @asleuki.bsky.social Annual Book Prize. There are categories for ecocritical monographs, creative prose, and poetry.

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Cards and flowers

Woman and baby in a park

Maternity leave has reminded me every single day how much mothering is WORK. Happy UK Mother's Day 💐

And Happy Eid to those celebrating, too!

Thanks Sophia! Hope all is well

Green Letters Special Issue: 'Erasure and Environment'. Guest edited by: Dr Demi Wilton and Dr Oliver Haslam. Volume 28, Issue 3 of Green Letters

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Screenshot of Erasure issue on Green Letters's web page

Our special issue of Green Letters, 'Erasure and Environment', is now available. The issue showcases a selection of articles transformed from papers at our 2021 conference of the same name, hosted at Loughborough Uni.

Many thanks to our wonderful delegates and contributors for their great work!