{"id":1275,"date":"2022-10-19T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/women-in-climate\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:21:24","slug":"rosalind-cornforth-walking-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/womeninclimate\/2022\/10\/19\/rosalind-cornforth-walking-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalind Cornforth: Walking the Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month we were very glad to be joined by Rosalind Cornforth of Reading University and the Walker Institute<\/a>. The Walker Institute is the WCRP My Climate Risk hub and is an interdisciplinary climate research institute. Her work focuses on developing climate resilient societies and works between NGOs, governments and stakeholders to achieve this. The vision of the walker institute is captured in this TEDx talk.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rosalind spoke briefly about her career to date and the interesting path she has taken to her current role. Her career started at ESSO, before returning to academia for her phd and eventually ended up working with policy makers in Africa. It was here that she realised the importance of doing and communicating the science that is most relevant to the policy makers and politicians implementing change. From here, her work focused more on interdisciplinary work, and answering the questions most important to those being worst impacted by climate changes. The problem can be well summarised with the quote: \u00a0\u201cYou can give us the science but what do you expect us to do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n

The process of implementing this was presenting in three steps:<\/p>\n