Caroline Zwierzchowska-Dod
Caroline Zwierzchowska-Dod is an educational consultant, newborn and parenting specialist and doctoral researcher. She comes to her doctoral studies with experience as a primary school teacher and...
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Interdisciplinary, interactive climate change education: A STEAM approach
‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...
Continue reading blog postCrisis for whom? Education for climate justice in Scotland
This research was borne of our shared conviction that education fit for addressing the climate crisis must move away from a vague discourse of undifferentiated responsibility and squarely pose the...
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‘Dear Oak’: Becoming more place-responsive in the climate and ecological crisis
Catherine: It’s winter. I’m in the heart of the Cairngorms on a field course for my outdoor education MSc at Edinburgh University. I’ve woken to a dusting of snow on my tent and the crunch...
Continue reading blog postA different kind of education…
Recent protests by Extinction Rebellion, worldwide Fridays for Future strikes by young people and the UN Climate Summit show a growth in global awareness of, and concern about, the climate crisis....
Continue reading blog postJennifer Rudd
Dr Jennifer Rudd is a Senior Lecturer in Circular Economy in the School of Management. She has previously worked on technological solutions to climate change from a chemistry and engineering...
Jack Reed
Jack completed an MSc in Outdoor Education at the University of Edinburgh in January 2020. He began a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in October 2020 researching the influence of mobile devices...
Catherine Dunn
Catherine Dunn is a postgraduate student studying an MSc in outdoor education. Catherine has been heavily involved in climate activism at Edinburgh University and has worked extensively with both...
Richard Millican
Richard Millican is senior lecturer in education at the University of Gloucestershire. He has worked in many different educational environments in this country and abroad and has a longstanding...
The renaming of time and the timing of the name
Geologists divide time ‘according to marked shifts in Earth’s state’ (Lewis & Maslin, 2015, p. 171). It has been argued that the impact humans have had and are having on the planet’s...
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A war for our world: Reframing the climate crisis
At the time of writing, I notice poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day. It strikes me that ignoring the effort to defeat Hitler would have been unthinkable – it framed everything we did. It...
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2020 BERA Council Elections
BERA is pleased to invite interested members to stand as candidates in the 2020 BERA Council Elections. We are seeking applications between 16th December 2019 and 23rd January 2020. BERA...
