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Ben Glasson

@benglasson

I research how corporate climate communication shapes environmental politics, culture, and public understandings of sustainability.

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to continue research and teaching on environmental communication, corporate climate rhetoric, media, and environmental politics, with opportunities to develop critical interdisciplinary projects.

I'm a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, researching how contemporary corporate climate rhetoric shapes public cultures of climate change. My project examines sustainability reports, executive communications, social media, advertising, and public relations as ideological interventions.

Previously, as a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University, I investigated post-greenwashing strategies and Olympic environmental communication. My work has analysed corporate sustainability discourse surrounding the Olympic Games, technology platform companies, climate denial, and ecological modernisation.

I hold a PhD in Environmental Politics from the University of Melbourne and bring methods from rhetorical studies, discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, and green political theory. I've also designed and taught politics, sociology, and media courses, including coordinating large first-year university subjects.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Visiting Scholar

American Academy in Rome

Jan 2025 - Dec 2026 (1 year 11 months)

Pursuing research project on the politics of post-greenwashing, involving archival research of corporate sustainability reports, executive communications, social media, and advertising and public relations.

Critical Discourse Analysis Environmental Communication Archive Research Qualitative Research

Landhaus Fellow

Rachel Carson Centre for Environment & Society, LMU Munich

Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 (11 months)

Supported research fellowship developing a critical toolkit aimed at the post-greenwashing strategies of Amazon, Google, Meta, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Environmental Communication Critical Discourse Analysis Corporate Sustainability Qualitative Research

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Communication and Media

Monash University

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023 (3 years 11 months)

Level B research position investigating Olympic environmental communications as part of a team-based ARC Discovery Project critically examining sustainability messages communicated by sport media.

Environmental Communication Media Studies Qualitative Research Discourse Analysis

Sessional Lecturer and Tutor

University of Melbourne

Jan 2013 - Dec 2019 (6 years 11 months)

Designed, coordinated, and contributed to courses in politics, sociology and media, from large-enrolment first-year subjects to specialist Masters' seminars in Global Media Communication.

Teaching Curriculum Design Course Coordination Lecturing Tutoring

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Melbourne

Melbourne Teaching Certificate, Teaching

2019 - 2019

Completed the Melbourne Teaching Certificate from the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne.

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental Political Theory

Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Political Theory from the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. Thesis: Antagonism, Co-optation, Fragmentation: Unravelling the Triple Bind of Green Political Struggle.