
Faculty for a Future
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Helping university staff & students unlock their institutions' transformative potential to navigate the polycrisis through people-powered decision-making.
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Our Agroecology lab USF Geosciences USF is accepting PhD and Masters interested in #agroecology, #biodiversity, ecosystem services, urban food sovereignty, & food-migration-climate change intersection. Accepting for 2024! Share widely 🐜☕️🌱🐝🐞🐛🦋 livingagroecology.com



The fossil fuel industry should have no place on university campuses. It certainly shouldn't be represented at their careers fairs. So imagine my "surprise" when, the DAY BEFORE Queen's University Belfast 🎓 launches its new net zero plan, I see The Oil Market Journal recruiting Queen's students.



Doing Political Science on the Eve of Destruction: Why I Decided to Leave academia by @ramonvanderdoes Relevant beyond academia. What will we do with our spare 80,000 hours over our caree span? James Dyke Faculty for a Future Julia Steinberger Dr Stuart StopFossilSubsidies Capstick elevenjournals.com/tijdschrift/PL…

Popular Assembly on the Planetary Crisis at Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Students, staff & community members have come together to address the question ‘If QUB is to show leadership on the planetary crisis, what steps should it take and what changes should it make?’


From Publications to Public Actions: Academic Activism in The Climate and Ecological Emergency IOP Environment #ER2023poster #AcademicTwitter #Climate #Ecology


Researchers looking to purchase carbon offsets to reliably cancel out greenhouse gas emissions across its campuses found next to nothing. They are now radically rethink its sustainability plans. bit.ly/3N5WpyT via MIT Technology Review

Latest episode "U...is for Universities', Host John Barry is joined by Dr. Laura Horn @jenniecstephens & Dr. Aaron Thierry to answer the question?: 'If the world is on fire, how can academia and academics continue in a business as usual manner?' podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-…


Join us at our first seminar of 2024 as we hear from Jordan Raine Faculty for a Future on the transformative potential of people's assemblies. More info here: exeter.ac.uk/events/details… If you're not on our mailing list please email [email protected] for the Zoom link



Yup, the democratisation of the academic workplace is a precondition for many of the other necessary transformations needed for it to be 'fit for future purpose', such as decolonisation, decarbonisation, decommodification and demilitarisation Faculty for a Future Calum McGeown


Universities are increasingly being challenged to show leadership in responding to and addressing climate change - but how can they do so? We are running two events next month to explore this. See below 👇 UEA BCAN Faculty for a Future UKERC Public Engagement Observatory ALL WELCOME! /1


Join us on this #PeoplesAssembly co-organised with UKERC Public Engagement Observatory, UEA BCAN and Faculty for a Future to create a vision, provide recommendations, and catalyse action to help make UEA fit for a Climate-Changing World! 3sresearch.org/2024/02/06/peo… via 3S Research Group

Contribution from Faculty for a Future in our message to Elsevier: "We are gravely concerned that already falling trust in scientific institutions will flatline, and academia will no longer have the social license or legitimacy to operate." #climaterights tinyurl.com/crcoalition


Brilliant to see another university using Popular Assemblies to create inclusive, intergenerational space for discussion and grassroots decision-making 👏 well done to all involved Faculty for a Future


CRC is continuing the efforts of #Elsevier workers who raised #humanRights issues under the United Nations Guiding Principles. Our initial message has remarks from researchers, Faculty for a Future, Fossil Free South Africa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social, @gwmp_org, Operation Noah & others. Learn more at climaterightscoalition.com 5/5🧵
