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Rebecca Huntley is an Australian author and researcher on social trends. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in gender studies. For nearly nine years Huntley was the Director of The Mind & Mood Report, Australia's longest-running social trends report.
Aug 30, 2024 · Rebecca Huntley, a broadcaster, author and social researcher, shares how she used MDMA therapy to heal from complex PTSD and childhood trauma. She talks about her journey, her book Sassafras and the psychedelic revolution.
Around the same time, renowned author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley experienced her first of three illegal MDMA sessions, delivered by an underground healer from the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales.
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Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia’s foremost researchers on social trends. With degrees in law and film studies, and a PhD in Gender Studies, she has lead research at Essential Media and Vox Populi and was a director at Ipsos Australia.
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- Shifting Segments
- What Underpins Our Response to Climate Change?
- Language Matters
- A Transformative Moment
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Last year I spent time with researchers at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, which has conducted countless scientific studies on public opinion and behaviour around climate change. Much of what they do is informed by the Six Americas study, a segmentation first conducted in 2009. It measures the American public's climate change beli...
As I contemplated this Six Americas study, the mammoth task of the climate change movement was taking shape in my mind. We need to increase the Alarmed cohort, absolutely no doubt. But we also need to develop and hone their skills of talking to others not of the same mindset. And we need to provide social and emotional support as many of them — man...
There is an Australian versionof the Six Americas study. It took a similar approach and came up with five groups — which echo the Yale segments but without the Disengaged. It was conducted in 2013 — a relatively long time ago given all that's happened since — but remains highly valuable because it takes into account a broader range of cognitive and...
I've also spent a lot of time wondering about the efficacy of the language around climate change, around emergency, crisis and urgency. The facts of climate change and the need for rapid response absolutely merit these terms. To not use them seems to be more than a sin of omission but an outright lie to the public about the scale of the threat and ...
We also need to find ways to shift those in the large Concerned segment into the Alarmed cohort. A moment from my own recent past shows it is possible. In December 2018 I woke up, made myself a cup of coffee and turned on the TV. I saw hundreds of teenagers skipping school and protesting in the streets about climate change, with handmade signs that...
Rebecca Huntley, a social researcher and author, explains how the public is divided into six groups based on their attitudes and actions on climate change. She argues that different groups need different messages and approaches to motivate them to take action.
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Rebecca Huntley is a writer, broadcaster and researcher on social trends and climate change. She has a PhD in Gender Studies and has worked for various media and research agencies.
