Emily Diamond

I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication, jointly appointed in the Department of Communication Studies in the Harrington School of Communication and Media and the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. I received a PhD in Environmental Policy from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Sanford School of Public Policy.

My research focuses on climate and environmental communication, most recently in coastal areas. My work seeks to understand how to more effectively message environmental information, and specifically how identities inform and shape individuals' responses to environmental information, and the role that framing plays in effective environmental communication.  I look at how aspects of individual and group-based identities -- such as recreational, familial, place-based, or ethnic identities -- inform attitudes on environmental issues and climate change policies, and how to incorporate these identities into effective environmental communication. My research has implications for efforts to overcome partisan divisions on environmental policies through framing and communication. 

At the University of Rhode Island, I teach graduate and undergraduate students the fundamentals of environmental communication and climate change media, and co-direct the Graduate Certificate in Science Writing and Rhetoric. 

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