EDUCATORS & ACADEMICS
HIGHER EDUCATION
NATIONAL
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XR EDUCATORS
XR Educators are a group of teachers, trainers, lecturers, tutors and all kinds of educator who believe that not enough is being done to protect and prepare for the futures of their students. This is through changes to curriculum, what we choose to teach our students to prepare them for the rapidly changing world ahead, as well as ensuring they have a future to look forward by pushing for radical climate action.
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SCIENTISTS FOR XR
Scientists for XR is a decentralised and self-organised group that includes scientists and academics located in the UK who agree with Extinction Rebellion that it is time to take direct action to confront catastrophic climate and ecological breakdown.
There are a huge range of strategies - from traditional campaigning to civil disobedience - where scientists’ positions, skills, expertise, credibility and networks could be invaluable in pushing for change. Academics and those trained or working in the sciences are well placed, well respected and well equipped to communicate the crisis and ring the alarm - whether you're working in climate or ecology -related positions or not.
Scientists for XR include ecologists, geologists, biologists, physicists, astronomers, engineers and more! Anyone with a scientific background is needed and welcomed.
Website / Facebook / @ScientistsForXR / scientistsforxr@protonmail.com
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1IN5
1in5 is a framework to allow the academic community to focus some of its collective brainpower on climate and biodiversity. Around half a million students complete an undergraduate degree every year in the UK alone; in their final year almost all carry out a substantial piece of advanced coursework in collaboration with an expert supervisor: a research study, a production, a dissertation . If just 1 in 5 of those pieces of work focused on climate change or biodiversity, then at such massive scale, significant impact is inevitable.
1in5 are asking the academic community across all disciplines to join us; to supervise or choose projects with a climate or biodiversity angle; to contribute ideas, help or support.
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REBOOT THE FUTURE
Reboot the Future delivers campaigns focused on hope, connection, and the tools we all have within us to create change. Their campaigns remind people that choosing to treat others and the planet as we'd wish to be treated gives us the courage, ideas and strength to create a better future.
Reboot the Future’s online education resource hub, Global Dimension, hosts a vast library of free sustainable development resources - exploring issues from climate breakdown, to migration and democracy.
Passionate about rebooting education? You can join their growing community of 18K+ educators today and gain access to free school resources, events and CPD opportunities.
Website / dragana@rebootthefuture.org / @FutureReboot (X) / Facebook / LinkedIn / @FutureReboot (insta)
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FACULTY FOR A FUTURE
Faculty for a Future (F4F) exists to coalesce the energy for change in academia and transform universities into the beacons of environmental and social justice they could be.
F4F collaborates closely with local groups, empowering staff, students and local communities to take the initiative in upgrading universities for the 21st century through a combination of deliberative democracy, collective organising and action.
They also offer a series of tools, accessible to academics across all disciplines, to support them to take agency over their own research, teaching, or engagement practices. This includes a library that educators can use to search for open-access resources relevant to their discipline that can help them integrate social and environmental crises into their teaching.
Find out more about their work and available resources, or join up now to receive a monthly newsletter and stay in the loop about future opportunities and developments!
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NEW SCHOOL OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical and affordable experiment in interdisciplinary higher education in collaborative association with October Gallery London. We are an ensemble of experienced academics who, in the company of diverse artists and practitioners, wish to restore the values of intellectual adventure, free exchange and creative risk that formerly characterised education in the UK and beyond. Our curriculum is dedicated to the urgent need to renegotiate the cultural relationships between the human and more-than-human worlds (aka biocentrism) and uses the arts and humanities to address ecological recovery, climate justice and social renewal.
The age-range within this heterogenous community extends from 18 to 78 and qualification-levels range from GCSE to PhD. We regard all our students as researchers who find their own rhythm, speed and pitch, and we do not differentiate between those who approach us as undergraduates and those who wish to undertake postgraduate work.
Website / nsota.info@gmail.com
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UCL STAFF CLIMATE ACTIVIST NETWORK
A group of UCL staff members and students deeply concerned about the state of inaction on the climate and ecological emergency, who support or are interested in the role of activism and direct action in our struggle for a liveable planet and climate justice.
Sign up to join their mailing list, and stay in the loop about upcoming next talks, events and meetings at UCL.
And check out and sign their Letter to the Vice Provost asking for meaningful support from UCL towards it's own staff and students who choose to participate in climate activism.
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IMPERIAL CLIMATE ACTION SOCIETY
ICA are a group of students and staff who are concerned about climate change and the ecological crisis that the world is facing. Imperial’s mission statement is to benefit society through world leading research and education, yet there is a lack of resources or policies that deliver meaningful action on the environmental issues that impact us all.
They aim to work with Imperial College London to encourage sustainable policies that are both environmentally and socially responsible. Imperial’s policies need to recognise the climate, ecological and social crisis. These policies should reflect the urgency required in our response.
Sign up to be alerted for upcoming events and actions!
@ic_climateaction (Insta)