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Jarren Nylund

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Originally trained as a designer, Jarren spent many years working in the design industry for a number of creative agencies in Queensland, Australia. At the end of 2010, he left his job as a designer to join in the fight against the ecological crisis and founded a in his home city of Brisbane. At around the same time, he also became involved in a number of other social and environmental change organisations (e.g., Friends of the Earth, Market Forces, , etc.) and worked on many campaigns.



As Jarren noticed a strong need for more effective campaigning materials in these social movements, he founded Design Good Design Studio, to aid the efforts of the associated organisations. Since then, he has designed brands, campaign materials, and advertising campaigns for a wide range of them: 350.org, Amnesty International (e.g., "), Australian Conservation Foundation (e.g., "), Australian Education Union, Australian Marine Conservation Society (e.g., “), Australian Progress, Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC; e.g., ), Change.org, Climate and Health Alliance, The Climate Reality Project, Doctors for the Environment, Environment Victoria (e.g., ", and "), Farmers for Climate Action, Friends of the Earth, GetUp!, Greenpeace (e.g., “), The Greens, Market Forces (e.g., ", and ), Nature Conservation Council of NSW (e.g., "), Oxfam, Queensland Conservation Council, RE-Alliance (f.k.a., Australian Wind Alliance), Solar Citizens (e.g., "), The Sunrise Project, United Voice, WWF, etc. His design work has received a commendation from the Design Institute of Australia in the Queensland Design Awards and was exhibited in the Queensland Art Gallery. It has also been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, Desktop (magazine), Lino (magazine), , DeSmog, Independent Australia, Skeptical Science, Informal Logic (peer-reviewed journal), Wastepaper (a book series created by employees of the design studio Inkahoots), and on many social media channels, including those of the culture-jamming magazine . He has also delivered presentations of his design work while discussing how graphic design and branding can be used to help create social and environmental change. More recently, Jarren completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science where he received First-Class Honours and several academic awards. He is now a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate at The University of Queensland. During his PhD, he is using theories and methods from social and environmental psychology to study public perceptions of climate protests, to help inform effective means of creating social change.





Research Outputs

In Preparation/Under Review

Nylund, J. L., Kutlaca, M., Surname, I., & Surname, I. (2027). Untitled manuscript [Manuscript in preparation]. The University of Queensland / Durham University.

Nylund, J. L., Hornsey, M. J., & Thai, M. (2027). Untitled manuscript [Manuscript in preparation]. The University of Queensland.

Nylund, J. L., Hornsey, M. J., Thai, M., & Kutlaca, M. (2026). Disrupting the "wrong" target? Climate protest tactics affecting entities deemed undeserving are perceived as immoral, unjust, and reduce activist support [Manuscript under review]. The University of Queensland. Preprint: ▼ 

Published/Complete

Pearson, S., Hornsey, M. J., Bretter, C., MacInnes, S., Nylund, J. L., Rekker, S., Smith, A. E., & Wade, B. (2026). Evaluating generative AI’s potential to dispel misinformation about wind farms. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 13424. ▼ 

Hornsey, M. J., Pearson, S., Wibisono, S., Thomas, E. F., Bird, L. H., Nylund, J. L., Bretter, C., Acevedo, J. D., Fielding, K. S., Amiot, C., Moghaddam, F. M., & Louis, W. R. (2026). Youth, personality and collective victimhood distinguish support for radical climate action. Communications Psychology, 4(1), 54. ▼ 

Hornsey, M. J., Smith, A. E., Pearson, S., Bretter, C., & Nylund, J. L. (2026). Using conversational AI to reduce science skepticism. Current Opinion in Psychology, 67, 102216. ▼ 

Hornsey, M. J., Pearson, S., Bretter, C., MacInnes, S., Nylund, J. L., & Rekker, S. (2025). The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate skepticism. Nature Climate Change, 15, 1183–1189. ▼ 

Nylund, J. L., Thai, M., & Hornsey, M. J. (2025). The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 106, 102682. ▼ 

• News about the journal article above was covered by The Big Issue, Skeptical Science, , , and .

Hornsey, M. J., Nylund, J. L., & Thai, M. (2025). Morality, justice, and collective climate action. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 64, 101541. ▼ 

Thai, M., & Nylund, J. L. (2024). What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(1), 131–152. ▼ 

Nylund, J. L. (2023). The target of a protest: Are extreme protests perceived more negatively when the target is deemed undeserving? [Honours thesis, The University of Queensland]. Thesis Commons. ▼ 

Nylund, J. L., & Welch, D. (2002). Proposal for a new Queensland Rail Citytrain map design. Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. 

Conference Presentations

Nylund, J. L., Hornsey, M. J., Thai, M., & Kutlaca, M. (2026, November 26–28). Disrupting the “wrong” target? Climate protest tactics affecting entities deemed undeserving are perceived as immoral, unjust, and reduce activist support [Conference presentation]. Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) 2026 Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Nylund, J. L., Hornsey, M. J., Thai, M., & Kutlaca, M. (2026, June 15–17). Disrupting the “wrong” target? Climate protest tactics affecting entities deemed undeserving are perceived as immoral, unjust, and reduce activist support [Conference presentation]. Alternative Futures and Popular Protest (AFPP) 2026 Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom (presented remotely).

Nylund, J. L., Thai, M., & Hornsey, M. J. (2025, September 18–19). The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions [Conference presentation]. 2025 Collective Action Network (CAN) Meeting, hosted online.

Nylund, J. L., Thai, M., & Hornsey, M. J. (2024, November 25–27). The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions [Conference presentation]. Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) 2024 Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Nylund, J. L., & Thai, M. (2023, November 20). The target of a protest: Extreme protests are perceived more negatively when the target is deemed undeserving [Poster presentation]. The Environment in Queensland in 2023, Brisbane, Qld., Australia. ▼ 



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