Wouter Poortinga

@wouterpoortinga.bsky.social

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Professor of #EnvironmentalPsychology @WSofArchi, @PsychCardiffUni, and @cast-centre.bsky.social

Ffrîsiad a fabwysiadwyd gan Gymru

Interest in Public engagement with climate change, Sustainable lifestyles & behaviour, and Environment & health .. more

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Political science 23%

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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 3d

"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy

What the 60 Minutes scandal reveals

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 11d

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 11d

Key insights:
🦆 Animals grabbed attention most
❤️ Connection came through emotion, senses & beauty
😊 Mostly positive feelings
👫 Social context + size, movement & novelty mattered
A great #CardiffUniversity @wwtworldwide.bsky.social collaboration 👏

👉 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

(3/3)

Pathways to nature connection? A photo-elicitation exploration on how children engage with a nature connection programme

While environmental education programmes have been shown to be effective in increasing knowledge and pro-environmental behaviour, it is not clear what characteristics of the intervention contribute...

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 11d

Using photo-elicitation interviews, children took photos on a wetland visit and then talked about them 📸🌿
This helped “open the black box” of environmental education by centring children’s own perspectives and experiences. (2/3)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 11d

Congrats to Magie Junker on her 1st PhD paper 🎉, published in Environmental Education Research

The study explores how children connected with nature during Generation Wild (designed & delivered by @wwtworldwide.bsky.social ) using photo-elicitation interviews 📸🌿

👉 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
(1/3)

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

Public support for climate action is solid but conditional. People believe in climate change and value environmental protection, but doubt fairness of climate policies. Govt & business need to show leadership otherwise support for climate measures may fade (infra4nextgen.com/wp-content/u...) (8/8)

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

⚖️ Fairness gap: Perhaps most importantly, a major finding is that many citizens see climate policies as lacking fairness. Few believe future policies will be unbiased or inclusive, and many think governments and businesses are not doing their fair share. (7/)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

✊ Engagement: Younger adults are most active in climate groups, protests, and petition signing, while older groups show higher willingness to contribute financially. (7/)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

🏭 Responsibility: People assign the most responsibility to business and industry, followed by governments and then individuals. (6/)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

🌍 Climate concern: Over 90% in every country agree that the climate is changing, although levels of personal worry vary widely. (5/)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

⚡ Policy support: Subsidising renewable energy has broad support (65%). Views on fossil-fuel taxes and appliance bans are more mixed. (4/)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

🌱 Environmental protection over growth: Across all countries, most people prioritise protecting the environment over economic growth and jobs. Support is strongest in Portugal (80%) and still a majority in Poland (54%). (3/)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

The report looks at how people across Europe think about climate change, who they believe should take responsibility, and which climate policies they are willing to support. (2/)

A few findings that stood out:

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 22d

New research out today on European public opinion on climate change, fairness, and climate action, using data from the #CRONOS3 panel across 11 countries (2024–25).(1/)

Full report here 👉: infra4nextgen.com/wp-content/u...

@ess-survey.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social

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Reposted by Wouter Poortinga, Gesis Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

European Social Survey @ess-survey.bsky.social · 22d

The Infra4NextGen project has published a report featuring analysis of climate change questions from our panel survey (CRONOS-3).

Written by @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social (Cardiff University), the report covers attitudes towards #climate change, fairness, and action in 11 countries.

Make it Green: New report on the role of public opinion in addressing climate change | Infra4NextGen

The Infra4NextGen project has today published a new report featuring analysis of Make it Green items from the self-completion web first panel (CRONOS-3).

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 23d

Bottom line: modest reallocation of road space to well-designed, segregated cycle lanes is widely accepted – but removing parking risks backlash.

Open access article: doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 23d

Key findings:
• Segregated lanes > painted (for cyclists and drivers)
• Reallocate road space > footpaths
• Removing car parking is consistently unpopular
• Strongest resistance from those who see any change as an attack on freedom to drive (3/4)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 23d

We asked 509 people in Britain how street space should be reallocated for cycling – testing combos of bike lanes, traffic restrictions and cycle parking using a Best–Worst Scaling experiment. (2/4)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 23d

📢 New paper out: “Preferences for urban street space reallocation to encourage cycling” with Isabella Malet Lambert, Dimitris Potoglou, Dimitrios Xenias and me. (1/4)

Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

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International Association for People-Environment Studies @iaps-association.bsky.social · 25d

🌍 Call for applications: IAPS ECR Workshop at @iaps2026.bsky.social

Open to MSc/PhD students in people–environment studies. Present your work, get feedback and connect with peers

🔍 Apply here app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...

More info: lnkd.in/eyUCFikD

🌍 Travel grants (€800) available

Oxford Abstracts

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Dr Sarah Payne @drsarahpayne.bsky.social · 28d

Are you a PhD or MSc student interested in people's transactions with environments?
Want to discuss your work with peers & 2 mentors?
The ECR workshop @iaps2026.bsky.social is for you!
Deadline 9th January.
Be where many experts in the field once started out.
stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#gr...

IAPS Conference 2026

29 June - Friday 3 July 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. The theme of IAPS 2026 is Sustainability as Wellbeing: Towards healthy, green, and equitable communities.

stories.surrey.ac.uk

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · Nov 21

We are recruiting a PhD researcher to study how flushed/poured medicines affect our water systems, and how to shift those behaviours.

🔗 Full project details & how to apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Deadline: Friday, January 16, 2026

NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Flushed pharmaceuticals: understanding behaviours to reduce environmental impact. at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Flushed pharmaceuticals: understanding behaviours to reduce environmental impact. at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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International Association for People-Environment Studies @iaps-association.bsky.social · Nov 20

📢 JOB KLAXON📢 postdoc in #EnvironmentalPsychology at the University of Gothenburg. Join the DEEP group to study psychological drivers of support for environmental policy.
2-year full-time position. Deadline Nov 27, 2025.

Details: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Postdoctoral researcher in psychology, specializing in environmental psychology

The Department of Psychology has around 130 employees and conducts extensive education and research in

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Nov 14

Car Size

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4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · Oct 21

NEW: Upfront costs for top overseas scientists to come to work in the UK can be more than 20 times those charged by other countries, Royal Society says.

Government insists this doesn’t contradicts its ambition to lure top researchers, at a time of turmoil in US science.

www.ft.com/content/7144...

Scientists charged too much to come to work in UK, says Royal Society

Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941

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Dr Samuel Finnerty @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hi all! I’m looking for research jobs in social psychology, environmental action, & climate policy. I study pro-environmental action, moral and identity processes, scientist advocacy, and universities’ climate responses. I use qualitative and quantitative methods for research with real-world impact.

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · Oct 17

WGSSS studentships are open to home & international students (30% international cap). Non-traditional backgrounds welcome!

Thinking about it? please contact
📧 PoortingaW@cardiff.ac.uk
📧 BuehnerM@cardiff.ac.uk
📧 WilliamsM93@cardiff.ac.uk

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · Oct 17

We can supervise on #EnvironmentalPsychology topics, incl.

• Future thinking & climate change
• Climate anxiety & distress
• Consumption, plastics & behaviour change
• Environmental behaviour in mobility, energy & diet

Projects are student-led, but we offer guidance in shaping proposals. 🌱 (2/3)

Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · Oct 17

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Environmental Psychology: We would like to invite students to apply for the student-led 2026 WGSSS PhD Studentship Competition at Cardiff University. (1/3)

🗓️ Deadline: 11 Dec 2025

🔗 wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-general-competition

Student-led General Competition – Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences

wgsss.ac.uk

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