PUBLICATIONS

2026​

• Thomas, M., Woolrych, R., Singleton, A., Haq, G., Latter, B., Maddock, C., ... & Musselwhite, C. (2026) Global environments of ageing: towards co-designing climate resilient environments and communities for ageing well. In Healthy Ageing: Social, Behavioural and Design Innovations in Research, Eds. Phillips, J., and Douglas, E.

2025​​

• Singleton, A., Thomas, M., et al. 2025. Working with an advisory group to co-create innovative intergenerational climate change research. Cogent Gerontology 4 (1) 2587010. (10.1080/28324897.2025.2587010)

• Thomas, M., Urbanek, E., & Ladd, C. J. T. (2025). Intergenerational tabletop game design for exploring the climate emergency: insights from an undergraduate field course. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1-11.

2024

• Thomas, M., Sorvala, L., Williams, A., Singleton, A., Maddock, C., Morgan, D., Murray, T., & Musselwhite, C. (2024). Co-creating a climate comic book: reflections on using comics in intergenerational research and engagement. Journal of Global Ageing, 1-19.

• Pigott, A., Nuuttila, H., Thomas, M., Smith, F., Bohata, K., Murray, T., ... & Elias, O. (2024). “No one talks about it”: using emotional methodologies to overcome climate silence and inertia in Higher Education. Frontiers in Sociology, 9, 1456393.

• Roberts, E.., Thomas, M., Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N. (2024) Using creative mapping methods to analyse multi-modal data. In Kara et al. (eds) The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis. Policy Press, Bristol. 978-1447369561.

• Januchowski-Hartley, S., Thomas, M., Bristol, R., & Mills, M. (2024). When unlocking rivers results in building more infrastructure: A group mental model shares lessons from weir remediation in the United Kingdom. Conservation Science and Practice, 6(3)

• Januchowski-Hartley, S., Giannoulatou, D., & Thomas, M. (2024). Creative Connections with Rivers: A Toolkit for Learning and Collaboration. Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place, and Community, 25

2023

• Thomas, M., Singleton, A., Williams, A., Maddock, C., Morgan, D., Murray, T., Musselwhite, C., & Sorvala, L. (2023). The Climate Comic / Comic yr Hinsawdd: Tales between generations / Cenedlaethau’n rhannu straeon Swansea University.

• Giannoulatou, D., Januchowski-Hartley, S., Sahni, A., Pawar, S., Lockheart, J., Baranduin, N., Herbst, D., Thackeray, S., Shooter, R., Darley, J., White, J., Whittaker, B., & Thomas, M. (2022). Collaging to find river connections and stimulate new meanings. cultural geographies https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221136411 

2022

• Thomas, M., Roberts, E., Pidgeon, N., & Henwood, K. (2022). ‘This funny place’: Uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach. People and Nature.

2021​

• Thomas, M.et al. 2021. Reflections from the team: co-creating visual media about ecological processes for young people. People and Nature (10.1002/pan3.10241)

• Thomas, M., Pawar, S. and Januchowski-Hartley, S. R. 2021. A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) case study using structured elicitation to estimate instream infrastructure passability for freshwater fishes. Conservation Science and Practice (10.1111/csp2.485)

• Armstrong, S., Burns, O., Garbutt, A., Hudson, R., Rendón, Thomas, M., Roberts, E., & Preston, J. (2021). Getting Started. In Rachel Hudson, Joe Kenworthy, Mike Best (Ed.), Saltmarsh Restoration Handbook: UK and Ireland (pp. 18-36). Environment Agency

2020

• Thomas, M.et al. 2020. Using photographs in coastal research and engagement: reflections on two case studies. In: Gustavsson, M. et al. eds. Researching people and the sea: methodologies and traditions. Palgrave

• Foley, R.et al. 2020. "Disciplined research in undisciplined settings": critical explorations of in situ and mobile methodologies in geographies of health and wellbeing. Area 52(3), pp. 514-522. (10.1111/area.12604)

• Roberts, E.et al. 2020. Valuing nature for wellbeing: narratives of socio-ecological change in dynamic intertidal landscapes. Environmental Values

2019

• Rendón, O. R.et al. 2019. A framework linking ecosystem services and human well-being: Saltmarsh as a case study. People and Nature 1(4), pp. 486-496. (10.1002/pan3.10050)

• Partridge, T.et al. 2019. Disturbed earth: Conceptions of the deep underground in shale extraction deliberations in the US and UK. Environmental Values 28(6), pp. 641-663. (10.3197/096327119X15579936382482)

• Harthorn, B. H.et al. 2019. Health risk perception and shale development in the UK and US. Health, Risk and Society 21(2), pp. 35-56. (10.1080/13698575.2019.1601685)

2018

• Whitmarsh, L., Haggar, P. and Thomas, M. 2018. Waste reduction behaviours at home, at work, and on holiday: what influences behavioural consistency across contexts?. Frontiers in Psychology 9, article number: 2447. (10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02447)

• Thomas, M.et al. 2018. Using role play to explore energy perceptions in the United States and United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 45, pp. 363-373. (10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.026)

• Thomas, M., Pidgeon, N. and Bradshaw, M. 2018. Shale development in the US and Canada: a review of engagement practice. The Extractive Industries and Society 5(4), pp. 557-569. (10.1016/j.exis.2018.07.011)

• Partridge, T.et al. 2018. Urgency in energy justice: Contestation and time in prospective shale extraction in the United States and United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 42, pp. 138-146. (10.1016/j.erss.2018.03.018)

2017

• Pidgeon, N.et al. 2017. Hydraulic fracturing: a risk for environment, energy security and affordability?. In: Kasperson, R. ed. Risk Conundrums: Solving Unsolvable Problems. Routledge, pp. 177-188.

• Thomas, M.et al. 2017. Public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and oil in the United States and Canada. WIRES Climate Change 8(3), pp. e450. (10.1002/wcc.450)

• Thomas, M.et al. 2017. Deliberating the perceived risks, benefits and societal implications of shale gas and oil extraction by hydraulic fracturing in the US and UK. Nature Energy 2, article number: 17054. (10.1038/nenergy.2017.54)

• Partridge, T.et al. 2017. Seeing futures now: Emergent US and UK views on shale development, climate change and energy systems. Global Environmental Change 42, pp. 1-12. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.11.002)

2016

• Thomas, M. J.et al. 2016. Public perceptions of shale gas operations in the USA and Canada: a review of evidence. Project Report. [Online]. M4ShaleGas Consortium. Available at: http://m4shalegas.eu/reportsp4.html

2015

• Thomas, M.et al. 2015. Mental models of sea-level change: A mixed methods analysis on the Severn Estuary, UK. Global Environmental Change 33, pp. 71-82. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.009)

• Thomas, M.et al. 2015. Expert judgements of sea-level rise at the local scale. Journal of Risk Research 19(5), pp. 664-685. (10.1080/13669877.2015.1043568)

2013

• Thomas, M. J. 2013. Public and expert perceptions of sea-level change on the Severn Estuary. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.