Max Leighton Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Co-founded In Our Nature to produce documentaries on climate change and to offer a sustainable option within the audio-visual industry.
• Our goal is re-shaping the climate narrative away from impending apocalypse to hopeful, evidenced-based narratives of an alternative future.
• Background is interdisciplinary across the sciences & humanities with a focus on climate change.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Working with 360°, high-density point cloud and 3D modelling cameras on projects such as Battersea Power Station.

• Project Pressure is a collective of artists documenting the worlds receding glaciers.
• My role was to research 3D drone modelling techniques and glacier locations, as well as manage collaborators and acquire sponsorship.

• Researcher for a documentary series - Drain the Oceans - commissioned by National Geographic.
• Working in conjunction with directors, contributors and the commissioners to fact-check the scripts and supervise narration records.

• Working as Professor Ted Shepherd’s research assistant.
• This role focuses on communicating climate science through risk narratives within the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands project (FRACTAL), which includes a six month secondment at the University of Cape.
• This research contract is funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Seconded to the Climate Systems Analysis Group.
• Research focuses on the use of narratives to analyse and communicate contested knowledge generated from coproduction workshops.
• Research lies within the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project funded by NERC and DFID.

London, United Kingdom

• Organised and acquired sponsorship for expeditions sending photographers and filmmakers to melting glaciers and ice sheets to publicise the visible impacts of climate change.
• Researched photographic archives for the MELT project; an open-source digital glacier atlas.

London, United Kingdom

• Designed the Environmental Education and Outreach Programme, which aimed to address the deficit in environmental education in the primary school national curriculum.
• Wrote funding proposals and developed stakeholder relationships.
• Representative at the Paris climate negotiations (COP21).

London, United Kingdom

• Worked on the Outreach and Advocacy Programme.
• Produced various communication materials including reports, blogs and newsletters.
• Managed the GBMI-Europe email account along with a number of databases.
• Helped run the Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture, which included a keynote speech from Kumi Naidoo, (then) Executive Director of Greenpeace International.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Led the logistical organisation of a flooding and public engagement workshop, with leading academics and professionals in the field.
• Contributory author of a socio-political report on the pan-European factors affecting public perception of climate change.
• Facilitated focus groups for the international 'Our Voices'​ programme, which brings faith to the UN climate negotiations.
• Managed the social media for TalkingClimate.org.
• Worked as a freelance researcher for Dr Adam Corner to work on the above workshop.

• Worked in the Communications and Energy Teams.
• Published blogs and articles on climate change and energy.
• Helped produce the 2015 marketing plan, as well as rebuilt and updated websites.
• Carried out energy audits for the Kingston University led 'Smart Communities'​ project.

Msc, Climate Change: Environment, Science And Policy

Completed the MSc (Environment, Science and Policy) and MA (History, Culture, Society) module pathways, but awarded an MSc with distinction.

Bsc, Geography (Hons)

Creative Photography Course

Documentary Filmmaking Course