Lois Player

Personal statement:

I am an environmental psychologist, nearing the end of my PhD at the University of Bath. My PhD explores the public acceptability of climate policies, and I work with local policymakers to help them design fair, effective and well-accepted policies.

I work with the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) on various projects seeking to enable low-carbon behaviours, and I have worked for the Climate Change Committee (CCC) exploring the role of people in Net Zero and the importance of fairness in climate policymaking. I use mostly quantitative and machine learning methods and analyses, with some qualitative.

Key topic areas of research or interest:

• Climate policy support
• Transport policy support (Low Emission Zones)
• Environmental behaviour change
• Public participation in climate policymaking
• Public engagement with climate change
• Fairness in climate policymaking
• Natural Language Processing
• Large Language Models for qualitative data

Publications:

The Use of Large Language Models for Qualitative Research: DECOTA. Pre-print (under review).

Quantifying the importance of socio-demographic, travel-related, and psychological predictors of public acceptability of low emission zones. Journal of Environmental Psychology.

The 19-Item Environmental Knowledge Test (EKT-19): A short, psychometrically robust measure of environmental knowledge. Heliyon.

Climate anxiety: What predicts it and how is it related to climate action? Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Full updated list on Google Scholar.