Annika Arnold is a researcher at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Her research focuses on topics of sustainable development and environmental communication, largely from a cultural perspective. Her book Climate Change and Storytelling was published in the Palgrave Macmillan series “Studies in Environmental Sociology and policy” and looks into the cultural patterns of climate change communication by putting forward a framework for cultural narrative analysis. Currently and most recently she works at several projects on the topic of a sustainable energy and transport transition, with a focus on communication patterns, public perception and civil participation methods.