Sonja Molnar is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on genre, discourse, and communication, with an emphasis on anti-racism, anti-discrimination and climate change.

Sonja is an applied linguist from Austria, whose work centers around language as a means to shape society and instigate positive cultural change. She is currently working on three climate projects:

“Fighting eco-anxiety and building eco-resilience: place-based pedagogies and sensory-embodied strategies” is an international, interdisciplinary project with collaborators from six universities, including University of Melbourne, University of Manchester, University of Toronto, University of Nairobi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universidad Catolica de Chile. It is financed by the Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto Research Fund.

“Supporting Climate Journalism in Australia: An AI-based tool to detect and counter climate misinformation” is an interdisciplinary project with collaborators from the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences. It is funded by a University of Melbourne Hallmark Research Initiative on “Fighting Harmful Online Communication”.

“Empowering Higher Education Students for Social Justice and Climate Action” is a funded case study by the Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project of the University of Saskatchewan. It is a joint project with Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) Professor Barry Judd, and Dr Rachel Standfield, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, that builds on a previous project "Communication for Changemaking". “Communication for Changemaking” developed curriculum resources that integrate Indigenous knowledges and perspectives into Media and Communications teaching and educate on the way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are represented in the Australian media.

Before joining the University of Melbourne, she worked at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Salzburg.

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