Nicola Walshe is Head of Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the UCL Institute of Education. Previously she held a number of leadership roles in secondary schools in the UK before going on to teach and lead the Geography PGCE course at Cambridge University. Nicola is co-convenor of the Environmental and Sustainability Education Research (ESER) network in the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and Secretary of GEReCo (Geography Education Research Collective). Her research interests include environmental and sustainability education, pedagogies at the intersection of nature, the arts and wellbeing, and curriculum and pedagogy within teacher education more broadly.