Meet The Team

I am the Executive Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education. Within the Centre, I lead a research group with internationally significant expertise in climate change and sustainability education (CCSE), with a primary focus on developing high-quality teacher education practices.

I began my career working in secondary schools and from there moved into HE, working mainly in teacher and history education.  I co-founded CCCSE in 2022 and have since led our Teaching for Sustainable Futures programme of teacher professional development in collaboration with colleagues across UCL. 

My career in the environmental and climate change sector has spanned roles in government, non-government and education settings. My research explores environmental education policy and practice. As Senior Research Fellow, I undertake research and impact-generating activities that aim to support teachers incorporate climate change and sustainability into their practice. 

I will lead on the development of the first secondary science TSF online module and will be researching the TSF programme with Dr Greer. I am working with colleagues on research projects in the UK and Qatar and have several relevant international collaborations with colleagues in Chile, China and Luxembourg.

My research focuses on young people’s attitudes towards education and the natural environment as avenues towards enhancing inclusion and mitigating inequalities. I have lead research and questionnaire design, data collection, quantitative analysis, and reporting for over 10 years, across primary schools, secondary schools, universities and at the centre. 

I am a postdoctoral fellow at UCL CCCSE, working on national youth climate survey data and the CLASS project. I am a Former secondary geography teacher with research spanning student wellbeing, climate change and sustainability education, and cross-curricular pedagogies. I was shortlisted for UCL Provost’s Education Award in Sustainability (2023). 

I began my career working in secondary schools and from there moved into HE, working mainly in teacher and history education.  I co-founded CCCSE in 2022 and have since led our Teaching for Sustainable Futures programme of teacher professional development in collaboration with colleagues across UCL. 

I am a Geography educator leading the Centre’s Secondary Geography modules for teachers. I also work with colleagues in History and English to develop teacher collaborations across subjects in schools. I contribute to the Centre’s research and publications, focusing on teachers' agency to teach for sustainable futures.

I am a primary geography teacher educator and work on the primary PGCE programme as deputy programme lead. I gave been responsible for the primary geography professional modules for Teaching for Sustainable Futures and have worked with number of schools, school colleagues and teacher educators to develop them. 

I am an Associate Fellow at the CCCSE and lead on the primary mathematics module design, influenced by critical mathematics. I partner with schools on CCSE implementation and use participatory action research methods to embed CCSE practices. My research interests include ‘critical mathematics education’ and its role in challenging environmental issues.

I am a lecturer in Mathematics Education at the IoE. I taught in inner London schools for 16 years. My research interests include ‘critical mathematics education’ and focus on how maths has a key role in challenging environmental issues. I develop the secondary mathematics modules for the TSF programme.

I create the primary English modules as part of the TSF programme. I am a lecturer in primary education at UCL IOE, and I am working on a PhD at Goldsmiths University.  I co-lead the MA Specialism Module on the PGCE and teach the Children's Literature specialism course. 

I am the primary music convenor for the TSF programme. I am also the Foundation Subjects Lead and music specialist on the Primary PGCE at UCL. Prior to this, I was a primary teacher and music specialist during which I designed music curricula and professional development opportunities for primary teachers. 

I lead on the Primary Science Specialism and Learning and Teaching modules and lecture on the secondary science programme. I have taught in primary and secondary schools for over 38 years and was a senior leader for 27 years. My role in the CCCSE is to create primary science modules.

I have taught, written and presentedon climate change and sustainability within music education, and am currently developing CCCSE professional development modules for secondary music teachers. I chaired the PGCE Secondary Sustainability Development Group in 2023-24 and have published analysis of CCCSE research data relating to music education. 

As an Associate Fellow I support and encourage schoolteachers in their sustainability practice and lead the development of the TSF modules in Citizenship education. I am the lead editor for the Teaching Citizenship Journal. I have Chaired the Secondary ITE Sustainability Development Group, and I am an active member. 

 I Chair the Centre’s Steering Group. My background is in ecology (with a PhD and post-doc in behavioural ecology and population genetics). I am passionate about the natural environment and write about socio-scientific issues in science, including ones to do with climate change, biodiversity and sustainability. 

I currently serve as Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. I have led the strategic development of our award-winning Centre since its inception in 2008. I am also a senior member of the programme team currently embarking on a major 3-year study: ‘A portrait of the teaching of Empire, Migration and Belonging in English secondary schools’. I have had extensive experience of leading other complex and large-scale educational programmes.

With over two decades of experience in primary teaching and teacher education across Japan, The Gambia, and Australia, I lecture on the Primary PGCE programme at IOE, specialising in primary science. I advise the Australian Academy of Science Education and consult on professional development integrating climate change education and sustainability. My research examines the nexus between science and climate change education, and my publications include a book on integrating the SDGs into primary science curricula.