Nicola Walshe is Pro-Director for Education at UCL’s Institute of Education (IOE), and Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, within which she leads a research group with internationally significant and sustained expertise in climate change and sustainability education. She is co-convenor of the Environmental and Sustainability Education Research network of European Educational Research Association and a UCL Climate Hub Community Expert. Nicola was originally a geography teacher; her other academic roles have included leadership of the Geography PGCE at the University of Cambridge, Head of the School of Education and Social Care at ARU, and Head of the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the IOE.