Dr Jane Alver1
1University of Canberra, Australia
Biography:
Dr Jane Alver is a gender, development and civil society specialist. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra in the Centre for Environmental Governance. Jane's experience includes Senior State Advocate for the Kiribati Attorney General’s Department, Director of Effectiveness and Engagement at the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), and the Associate Research Program Manager (Gender) at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). She has worked in Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, PNG, Fiji and FSM. She is admitted as a legal practitioner in Australia, England and Kiribati. She holds degrees in Arts, Law, Gender and Political Science.
Abstract:
Pacific peoples have long been telling stories as the medium of conveying traditions, culture, weather observations and more. Investigating the stories of climate impacts and marginalisations with peoples from the Pacific living with disabilities, we learnt of the desire to have this research conveyed back to people in the region in creative ways. This provoked the researchers to expand their outputs to include a podcast. This paper will present the latest findings emerging from a Pacific Forum that asked the question: what would a more intersectionally-inclusive approach to gender and climate programming look like?
The discussion is relevant to discussions of Who uses knowledge, who accesses knowledge, how is knowledge produced, communicated, extracted and communicated and to whom? The benefit of our podcast is to amplify impacts of scientific communication on gender and climate impacts and vulnerabilities and leadership and intersections? We can use this to communicate with grassroots groups and funders. We explore podcasting as a medium to ground new collaborations, community building, and work together with new partnerships, in an accessible format, in English and other languages.
We canvass our own learnings and reflections as development practitioners and sharing with donors about relationship formation and ways of being together – using podcast as a landing space. The paper will be of interest to scholars of Pacific studies, development practitioners seeking to break beyond the usual ways research findings are presented and people from, and those working with groups not often specified in gender and climate outputs.