Elizabeth Shanahan, PI, USA

Elizabeth Shanahan, an associate professor at Montana State University, has developed (with colleagues) the Narrative Policy Framework to measure the effect of narratives in policy decision making. Her research has centered on how interest groups strategically construct persuasive policy narratives and to what extent these narratives influence individual opinions. She has recently focused her work on hazards (flooding and now Hendra virus spillover) to understand how scientific information can be best situated in locally derived narratives to increase hazard preparedness.