Outputs (15)

From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Lê, H., Parsons, K. J., Võ, T., & Halstead, F. (online). From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.70004

Climate change presents urgent global challenges that demand swift and transformative responses. However, current efforts often fall short, revealing a crisis not only of environmental concern but also of social action. Responses to this have include... Read More about From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam.

Hedgerows: Mapping The Gaps. Phase 2 Final Report (2025)
Report
Wolstenholme, J., Townsend, E., Nolan, J., Ahmed, J., Parsons, K., Davidson, G., Thomas, R., & Parsons, D. (2025). Hedgerows: Mapping The Gaps. Phase 2 Final Report. Natural England

From Introduction:
This report aims to improve upon previous work of Wolstenholme et al. (2021). Artificial intelligence and computer vision was utilised to automatically identify hedgerows from high-resolution aerial imagery across the East Riding... Read More about Hedgerows: Mapping The Gaps. Phase 2 Final Report.

Automated identification of hedgerows and hedgerow gaps using deep learning Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2025)
Journal Article
Wolstenholme, J. M., Cooper, F., Thomas, R. E., Ahmed, J., Parsons, K. J., Parsons, K. J., & Parsons, D. R. (online). Automated identification of hedgerows and hedgerow gaps using deep learning Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.432

Hedgerows are a key component of the UK landscape that form boundaries, borders and limits of land whilst providing vital landscape-scale ecological connectivity for a range of organisms. They are diverse habitats in the agricultural landscape provid... Read More about Automated identification of hedgerows and hedgerow gaps using deep learning Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.

Investigating lived experiences of children and young peoples changing relationship with the natural environment during and after COVID19 (2024)
Thesis
Parsons, K. Investigating lived experiences of children and young peoples changing relationship with the natural environment during and after COVID19. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4865983

Act of hope: a story of climate change and water puppetry performance along the Red River, Vietnam (2024)
Journal Article
Lloyd Williams, A., Vũ, Q., Lê, H., Jones, L., Võ, T. T., Halstead, F., Parsons, K. J., Nguyễn, A. T., Hackney, C. R., & Parsons, D. R. (2024). Act of hope: a story of climate change and water puppetry performance along the Red River, Vietnam. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 29(2), 278-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2024.2319833

This case study explores a collaboration between young people, researchers and artists which captured stories of how people in the Red River Catchment of Northern Vietnam are responding to climate change, and then used the local art of water puppetry... Read More about Act of hope: a story of climate change and water puppetry performance along the Red River, Vietnam.

Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action (2023)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Parsons, K. J., Halstead, F., & Wolstenholme, J. M. (2023). Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action. Children & society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12819

This article offers new insights into the important role that transdisciplinary, participatory action research approaches offer young people as a safe space to ‘act’ on climate change and environmental degradation. Drawing upon methodological meta-re... Read More about Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action.

From 'Flood Stories' to 'Flood Actors': Children as Change Agents in Disaster Risk Education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lloyd Williams, A., & Parsons, K. (2023, June). From 'Flood Stories' to 'Flood Actors': Children as Change Agents in Disaster Risk Education. Presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022) emphasises the urgent threat of climate change and the need to adapt societies in order to enhance resilience. In England, 1 in 6 households are at risk of flooding and this is set to increa... Read More about From 'Flood Stories' to 'Flood Actors': Children as Change Agents in Disaster Risk Education.

The Mystery of the Giant Claw (2023)
Book
Parsons, K., & Hedgehunter Team. (2023). The Mystery of the Giant Claw. Fantastic Books Publishing

The mystery of the giant claw is an illustrated children's adventure book by researchers Katie Parson and Josh Wolstenholme.
Katie and her team were joined by a group of environmental activists named the HedgeHunters to create a series of children's... Read More about The Mystery of the Giant Claw.

Gendered childhoods and the inequity of accessing the outdoors (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons, K. J., & Halstead, F. (2022). Gendered childhoods and the inequity of accessing the outdoors. Area, https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12831

Understanding our beliefs and experiences means we must often explore our childhood experiences, and reflect on how, at certain points in our life a range of barriers, obstacles and societal or social constructs have resulted in shaping the opportuni... Read More about Gendered childhoods and the inequity of accessing the outdoors.

Immersive storytelling and the power of using 360 to amplify the experiences, agency and action of children and young people facing flood risk (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parsons, K. J., Lloyd Williams, A., Skinner, C., & Parsons, D. R. (2022, May). Immersive storytelling and the power of using 360 to amplify the experiences, agency and action of children and young people facing flood risk. Paper presented at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria

Flood hazard is projected to at least double by 2050 as a consequence of the impacts of climate change, meaning many more societies and communities will need to be able to mitigate and adapt to the resultant increase in flood risk.

One often overl... Read More about Immersive storytelling and the power of using 360 to amplify the experiences, agency and action of children and young people facing flood risk.