Dr Georgina Treloar

Georgina worked for over 15 years’ as a communications professional and completed her PhD in Environmental Social Science at the University of Kent in 2024 on framing in the climate/environmental movement. She also holds a postgraduate certificate in Methods of Social Research including qualitative and quantitative methods (distinction), an MA in Writing and Literature and an undergraduate degree in the Creative Industries. 

Her PhD thesis title is ‘Extinction Rebellion in the frame: An analysis of XR’s nascent mobilisation from the social movement framing perspective’. Additionally, she has contributed a chapter on the epistemology of XR to the Routledge Handbook on Grassroots Climate Activism (2024).

Georgina's PhD research involved indepth interviews with XR co-founders and key members of the nascent mobilisation, including media and press team co-ordinators and members of other central teams. She also interviewed the co-founders and members of XR Canterbury, a local UK group, and explored how decentralised organising worked in theory and practice. For the most part a frame analysis of XR, her research also extended to structural concerns – how XR engaged with and influenced formal politics – as well as cultural ones, including how emotions factored in the frames upon which XR mobilised. A chapter is also dedicated to how XR negotiated the mediasphere during its rapid scale shift. Interviews were trangulated with textual analysis and participant observation. 

Georgina's previous involvement in local politics as a district councillor lends additional insight into local government policy and structures. Her involvement with the Nature Recovery and Regional Development project at the University of Exeter is a happy continuation of her passion for nature, local democracy and governance. 

Although most firmly rooted in qualitative research, Georgina also has some experience in statistical analysis. She is also very interested in exploring social research methodologies that have the potential to intersect with creative practice, such as Rhythmanalysis, which explores the rhythms of societies, cultures, economies, ecologies, geologies, and the cosmos.