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Matthew Nisbet

Associate Professor, Northeastern University

Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Communication, Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. His research focuses on the role of communication, the media, and advocacy in environmental politics. He is a Senior Editor at the Oxford Research Encyclopedia Climate Science and writes the "Age of Us” column at The Conversation. Among awards and recognition, he has been a Visiting Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Google Science Communication Fellow, and is currently a member of the National Academies Roundtable Committee on Public Interfaces in the Life Sciences.

Watch Nisbet explain "Clearing Climate Scapegoats: Debunking Myths About Who Is To Blame for Inaction on Climate Change"