Post-doctoral researcher • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA)
Framing for degrowth communications and policies
Summary
Dallas is an environmentalist committed to applying psychology and behavioural science tools to motivate mass adoption of sustainable practices, in the hopes of creating structural changes to unsustainable systems, mitigating the threat of climate change, and inspiring a more equitable world. Her MSc dissertation applied behavioural science techniques to the circular economy, focusing on clothing waste. Dallas is a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB. Her work on the REAL project focuses on framing communications about degrowth for a variety of audiences, especially those with less access to privilege and power, as well as framing specific policy proposals of the agenda to garner broader appeal.
Experience
Dallas holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Policy Analysis & Management, which incorporated economics, public policy, statistics, and sociology. She then worked in economic consulting in New York City before coming to the LSE for an MSc and PhD in Behavioural Science. Dallas is current working with REAL – A Post-Growth Deal: The REAL project advances scientific research for realising post-growth transformations.
Grants
- LSE Research Partnership Scheme: funding to work with an entrepreneur and LSE alumni to conduct research relevant to a social enterprise startup
- Phelan US Centre Summer Research Grant: funding to conduct research related to degrowth on a sample of US participants.
Recent Work
Dallas is a post-doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB. She recently completed a PhD at the LSE using experimental psychology and environmental economics methods to study reduced consumption and degrowth.
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Published in Sustainability Science — Julia Buzan, Dallas O’Dell & Guillaume Dezecache
09/04/24
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Classifying behavioural frameworks of sustainable consumption to disrupt consumer culture in the wake of COVID-19
01/18/21
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Using macro-level sustainability agendas of green growth and degrowth to influence micro-level consumption behaviour
06/01/22
PhD Thesis
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Sufficiency-oriented consumer and citizenship behaviour for a transformative path toward degrowth
06/13/24
Blog
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In a system that demands too much, can working less actually achieve more?
03/28/23
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A summary of the various costs associated with academic conferences, collating potential solutions to reduce those costs, and more importantly expressing the need for both cultural and institutional changes to usher in new forms of connecting that benefit people and the planet.
Featured in LSE’s Higher Education Blog.08/04/23
