About
Elena is a Senior Lecturer Teacher Education and founder of the Education for Sustainable Futures Special Interest Group at the University of Worcester and co-chair of Our Shared World. She is the PGCE Geography subject lead and has taught both geography and science education across the primary and secondary centres on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She was awarded ‘Global Educator of the Year’ in 2016. Her research interests include Climate and Ecological Emergency, Sustainable Futures, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Nature Connectedness, Period Poverty and flood education.
Matt is the founder and director of Inspired Efficiency which advises organisations on how to reduce their energy and carbon. He runs the energy management for a large number of schools and advises the likes of DfE on how to reduce energy in their existing estate. Also a school governor, married to a secondary school teacher and father to a vegan, harp playing, paddle-boarding 15 year old climate activist!
Nicola is Pro-Director Education of UCL’s Institute of Education and Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education. She leads an internationally renowned research team whose aim it is to support the development of policy and practice in climate change and sustainability education, both nationally and internationally. She is co-convenor of the Environmental and Sustainability Education Research network of European Educational Research Association and a UCL Climate Hub Community Expert.
Currently, Paul Chair's the Continuing Professional Development Forum for the UK's Universities’ Council for Teacher Education. At Gloucestershire University he lead ‘A Rounder Sense of Purpose’ – an international research project on education for sustainable development (ESD). Formerly, he co-drafted the ESD Strategy at the UN Economic Commission for Europe where he serves as External Expert.
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Phil is a former teacher at Alec Reed Academy in Northolt and School 21 in Stratford, a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University (2020-2021) and also helped in organising the The Big Climate Teach-In.
Serene is an Associate focused on Future Energy Systems for the Carbon Trust. Previously, she has been a Consultant in the Clean Energy sector, Secretariat for the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, Director of a student charity and an Energy Analyst for Sainsbury’s. In her free time, she is working on a project looking into electrifying Sub-Saharan Africa with renewable mini grids.
Sue was born and educated in London. The ‘environment’ was unfortunately not incorporated into her education both at school and during her training to become an architect. She has lived and worked in London, Pakistan, Iraq and New Zealand for half her working life but she decided to stop flying and focus on learning a realistic understanding of our predicament as a species. Sue’s life now is centred on how we can make change happen.