Kelly S Fielding

Biographic Data

ID1405083
NAMEKelly S Fielding
GIVEN NAMESKelly S
FAMILY NAMEFielding
SIGNATUREFIELDING K S
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0001-5301-0331
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS69
TOTAL CITATIONS364
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • Stereotypes Shape Public Impressions of Unconventional Climate Advocates Across Urban and Regional Communities

    Open AccessXiongzhi Wang, Rebecca Colvin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2026

    Unconventional climate advocates – those who do not fit pro-environmental stereotypes yet promote climate action – are increasingly visible within climate movements. However, little is known about how general publics perceive these atypical advocates. Drawing on 90 public intercept interviews in Australia, we explored impressions of unconventional advocates and whether these perceptions varied across urban and regional communities. We examined tw…

  • Understanding and reducing the intention–behaviour gap in climate action

    Open AccessKelly S Fielding, Kelly Fielding et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2026

  • Change From Within: Building Support for Climate Policy in Groups Stereotypically Associated With Climate Opposition or Disengagement

    Open AccessSarah J Boddington, Rebecca Colvin et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…2026References: 99

    Despite broad support for climate policy across countries, some groups remain stereotypically associated with opposition to or disengagement from climate action. Examples include farmers and political conservatives. We interview 18 participants from six advocacy organisations trying to change their group's opposition to or disengagement from climate action and create norms of climate policy support. We introduce the term in‐group advocacy to desc…

  • Framing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) risk: Assessing the influence of message content and source on concern about emerging contaminants

    Open AccessKylie Morphett, Carla R Magi-Prowse et al.ARTICLEJournal of Risk Research2025

  • Can conservation covenants help sustain nature and livelihoods? Factors associated with conservation covenant adopters in Australia

    Open AccessCarla L Archibald, Kelly S Fielding et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Biodiversity conservation on privately owned land often relies on the actions of individual landholders, such as participating in conservation covenant programs. Landholders' participation in conservation covenant programs depends on many financial and non‐financial factors and in many cases is closely linked to landholder livelihoods. We investigated whether landholders who participate in conservation covenant programs have different perceptions…

  • Who do we trust on climate change, and why

    Open AccessSarah Macinne, Matthew J Hornsey et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2025References: 6

    “Climate scientists” and “friends and family” are the most trusted sources. • Clarity, shared values, and sincerity predict trust across audiences. • Believers and skeptics value different communicator traits. • Tailoring messages and messengers to the audience can build climate engagement. Trust in climate communicators is a critical determinant of whether the public accepts and acts upon climate change information. Yet most research to date has…

  • How leading climate movement advocates perceive collective gridlock in social change advocacy

    Open AccessJanquel D Acevedo, Ava Disney et al.ARTICLEPolitical Psychology2025References: 50

    Despite mass mobilization efforts, most countries are failing to meet their internationally agreed 2030 goals to mitigate climate change, representing a failure of the climate movement to achieve their key aspirations. Most research on failure and collective action examines one‐off failures but does not address lasting failure. We conceptualize this ongoing failure as collective gridlock: times in social change advocacy where insufficient progres…

  • Intergroup Conflict Over Climate Change: Problems and Solutions

    Open AccessMatthew J Hornsey, Kelly S Fielding et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…2025Cited by: 2References: 90

    Global progress in combatting climate change is being slowed by intergroup conflict and tribalism. Addressing the intergroup tensions of today is a pre‐requisite for avoiding violent intergroup tensions in the future, tensions that may threaten societal structures we currently take for granted. This paper highlights five sources of intergroup conflict that compromise humans’ ability to effectively and swiftly respond to climate change: political …

  • Can Instagram contribute to the wellbeing and flourishing of Australian farming women in the midst of climate challenges

    Open AccessAmy R Samson, Kelly S Fielding et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2025References: 11

  • Overcoming Climate Gridlock: Perspectives of Climate Leaders on How to Achieve Social Change During Persistent Failure in Australia

    Open AccessJanquel D Acevedo, Ava Disney et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2025Cited by: 1References: 8

    Despite sustained efforts of social movements worldwide, there has been a lack of progress on mitigating climate change. Recent research examined the psychological consequences of one‐off collective action failures, but there has been little research on how to overcome persistent failure to create social change. This qualitative research ( N = 26) interviews leaders, founders, experienced advocates, and philanthropists from organisations ranging …

  • If at first, you don’t succeed: Strategies Used by Environmental Activist Volunteer Leaders to Overcome Failure

    Robyn Gulliver, Charlie Pittaway et al.ARTICLESocial movement studies2025Cited by: 3References: 53

    Environmental activist leaders play a critical role in organizing grassroots activism. They often do so in a voluntary capacity while enduring long periods of failure in their quest to achieve environmental goals. Through 21 interviews we investigate how environmental activist volunteer leaders experience failure and the strategies they use to overcome it. Using a two-stage reflexive thematic analysis approach, four dimensions of failure were ide…

  • Community stewardship to protect coastal and freshwater ecosystems–pathways between recreation and stewardship intentions

    Open AccessAngela J Dean, Konrad Uebel et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    Strengthening community engagement in stewardship can help to improve management of coastal and freshwater environments (blue spaces). Research suggests that recreational users of natural areas may be more willing to engage in stewardship. However, little research at a population scale has examine how recreation experiences shape psychological ingredients for stewardship. We surveyed 3271 residents of South East Queensland, Australia and quantifi…

  • Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety

    Open AccessCharlie R Pittaway, Kelly S Fielding et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024References: 6

    Motivating climate action is challenging because the worst consequences of climate change are in the future, triggering a conflict between short- and long-term interests. Prior research suggests that orienting to the future facilitates pro-environmental behavior whereas orientation to the present inhibits it; however, we consider whether different temporal orientations simply make some kinds of climate action more attractive than others. The pres…

  • Is Australia's urban-regional schism on climate reality or rhetoric

    Open AccessRebecca Colvin, Frank Jotzo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2024Cited by: 4References: 7

    Research and popular discourse have not settled on whether there exists an urban-regional divide on climate. In Australia, we observe rhetoric in the public sphere suggesting such a divide. In this paper we examine whether the urban-regional schism on climate reflects the reality of Australians' opinions on climate change. We conducted a quota survey of the Australian population (N = 2,952) and measured opinion across seven climate and seven soci…

  • Accelerating the adoption of water sensitive innovations: Community perceptions of practices and technologies to mitigate urban stormwater pollution

    Angela J Dean, Fiona J Newton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Planning…2023

    Water management increasingly focuses on tackling stormwater pollution to improve waterway health. Community members have a role in adopting pollution-reduction practices and supporting technologies such as water sensitive urban design. However, because communities are unfamiliar with these practices and technologies, little is known about how they make sense of these ‘water sensitive innovations’. Drawing on Diffusion of Innovations theory, we c…

  • The Criminalization of Climate Change Protest

    Robyn Gulliver, Robin Banks et al.ARTICLEContention2023Cited by: 5References: 23

    This article examines the strategies used by a democratic state to suppress dissent by criminalizing social protest activities. We compile and tabulate new legislation in Australia affecting protest rights from 2010 to 2020. Using data collected from the Facebook pages of 728 environmental groups and climate-related arrests reported in media articles, we then examine connections between climate change protest and protest criminalization in Austra…

  • Resources that Help Sustain Environmental Volunteer Activist Leaders

    Open AccessRobyn Gulliver, Charlie Pittaway et al.ARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2023Cited by: 3References: 12

    Environmental activism organizations depend on recruiting and retaining individuals willing to engage in leadership tasks on a voluntary basis. This study examined the resources which help or hinder sustained environmental volunteer activist leadership behaviors. Interviews with 21 environmental volunteer activist leaders were analyzed within a Resource Mobilization Theory framework. While six resources supporting sustained engagement in voluntee…

  • International media coverage promotes donations to a climate disaster

    Open AccessC M Chapman, Matthew J Hornsey et al.ARTICLEDisasters2023Cited by: 3References: 40

    The Australian bushfires in 2019–20 triggered massive amounts of charitable giving from the community. This study applied agenda‐setting theory to examine if and how disaster news coverage influenced public donations in response to the crisis. A survey of 949 Australians found that people perceived news coverage of the event to be a strong influence on the amount they donated to bushfire appeals, over and above past giving levels. Furthermore, me…

  • A political experiment may have extracted Australia from the climate wars

    Open AccessMatthew J Hornsey, C M Chapman et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022

  • Non-climatic stressors constraining adaptation to drought in rice-farming communities in the Philippines

    Jaime A Manalo, Elske Van De Fliert et al.ARTICLEClimate and Development2022

    In climate change adaptation, non-climatic stressors is a concept that is used to describe the different types of stressors that people are faced with to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Usually, however, this concept is loosely applied in the literature. In the current study, we conducted interviews with farmers in drought-prone rice-producing provinces in the Philippines to better understand the types of stressors they face in adapting t…

  • Nature connection, pro-environmental behaviours and wellbeing: Understanding the mediating role of nature contact

    Open AccessYongbo Liu, Andrew Cleary et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2022

    Nature connection is positively associated with wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours. However, the mediators of these relationships remain under-explored. This study examines the mediation effects of nature contact on the relationship between nature connection and wellbeing, and between nature connection and pro-environmental behaviours. Two types of nature contact are explored, routine weekly contact with urban nature (public urban nature …

  • Beyond proximity: How subjective perceptions of enablers and constraints influence patterns of blue space recreation

    Open AccessAngela J Dean, Helen Ro et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2022

  • A systematic review of the outcomes of sustained environmental collective action

    Open AccessRobyn E Gulliver, Cassandra Star et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022

  • ‘It’s all the other stuff!’ How smokers understand (and misunderstand) chemicals in cigarettes and cigarette smoke

    Open AccessBill King, Ron Borland et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2021

    Many people understand chemicals as entities that do not occur naturally, and which are also invariably toxic. Tobacco control messages liberally use the term ‘chemicals’ to evoke these meanings and create concern among smokers. This may reinforce misunderstandings, potentially leading to smokers making harmful choices. To investigate smokers’ understandings of chemicals, we conducted qualitative research using 18 individual interviews and three …

  • The Psychology of Effective Activism

    Open AccessRobyn Gulliver, Susilo Wibisono et al.BOOKPsychology of Effective Activism2021

    This Element reviews the social psychology of effective collective action, highlighting the importance of considering activists' goals, timeframes, and psychological perspectives in seeking to conceptualise this construct. A novel framework 'ABIASCA' maps effectiveness in relation to activists' goals for mobilisation and change (Awareness raising; Building sympathy; turning sympathy into Intentions; turning intentions into Actions; Sustaining gro…