Marijn Meijers is an assistant professor in Environmental Communication at ASCoR. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Psychology (Tilburg University) and received her Ph.D. in Communication Science (University of Amsterdam). Her research and teaching focuses on understanding and stimulating pro-environmental behavior. Her current research focusses on harnessing novel affordances of digital communication such as Virtual Reality to enhance environmental communication, looking at the interplay of health and climate change, and the role of social influences and efficacy beliefs in environmental behavior change.
Her work has been supported by several personal grants like an NWO VENI and NWO XS grant from the Dutch Science Foundation, as well as by team grants like the RPA grant ‘BRIDGES’ and a Sustainable Prosperity grant for interdisciplinary research.. Marijn is co-founder and co-director of the Environmental Communication Lab (ECoLab), CSDS board member, and vice-chair of ICA’s Environmental Communication Division and NeFCA’s Environmental Communication TWG.