Green Skills for Everyone

Dr Isobel Talks

Speaker

Dr Isobel Talks is a lecturer, post-doctoral researcher and consultant. During her DPhil at Oxford, Isobel was appointed ‘Visiting Researcher’ at the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Liberal Arts (ULAB) in Dhaka, during which she worked on two projects about climate change education - ‘Trust and Climate Change: Information for Teaching in a Digital Age’ and ‘Climate Change Education Futures in India’. More recently, she has co-developed and delivered the MSc module ‘Environmental education: from education for sustainable development to action for climate empowerment’ in the Department of Geography at Oxford, whilst leading on the Fell Funded ‘Skills or Sustainable Farming Futures’ project, which is bringing key stakeholders together to develop new approaches to ‘agroecological skills’. Alongside her academic work, Isobel is also an independent consultant and researcher for organisations including Plan International, FCDO, Save the Children, NAAEE and NAEE, and the Landworkers’ Alliance.

Dr Bill Finnegan

Speaker

Bill Finnegan is a climate education researcher and practitioner at the University of Oxford with roles in the Department of Education, Department for Continuing Education, and Environmental Sustainability Team. His research explores pedagogies of hope and he leads work on the curriculum priority of the University’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy, as well as the Vice-Chancellor’s Colloquium on Climate Change. Bill created the Museum of Climate Hope initiative with Oxford’s gardens, libraries and museums and the Environmental Change Institute.