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Ms Sophia Georgescu

PhD Researcher

Education Stirling

Ms Sophia Georgescu

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My PhD research, ‘Exploring children’s rights to participation and the geographies of meaning-making in the sixth mass extinction’ explores children’s participation rights in the current climate crisis and sixth mass extinction of species.

Through co-created research activities and material, interspecies experiences, I consider children’s meaning-making in situ and their participation in biodiversity loss responses. This draws together interdisciplinary perspectives on children’s rights, interspecies nature, and educational responses to biodiversity loss that promote eco-social wellbeing.

I am a child rights and participation specialist with Scotland’s Children’s Parliament, where I lead environmental projects, including facilitating child participation in Scottish Government’s Learning for Sustainability Leadership Group (2021-ongoing) and national engagement between children and decision-makers for COP26 and Scotland’s Climate Assembly, the first climate citizens’ assembly in the world to include children (2021).

Award

King's College Cambridge Scholar

Donald Robertson Dissertation Prize Recipient

David Richardson Travel Prize Recipient


Event / Presentation

Scottish AI Summit

Learning for Sustainability Scotland

Observatory of Children's Human Rights Scotland


Professional Career

Children's Participation Worker, Scotland's Climate Assembly
Children's Parliament

Children's Participation Worker, Climate Changemakers
Children's Parliament

Sharpham Trust Funded Resident, Spiritual Ecology Writing

Research Assistant, Children's Participation Worker on Artificial Intelligence
The Alan Turing Institute, Scottish Government and Children's Parliament

Project Lead, Learning for Sustainability
Children's Parliament

Feminist Environment Blog Writer

Climate Anxiety Toolkit for Educators
Scotdec


Professional qualification

SCVO Project Management Certification


Research

Children's geographies Children’s Rights Eco-feminism Politics and geographies of nature and childhood Education and curriculum-making Political ecology Indigenous knowledges Posthumanism Environmental politics

Teaching

PhD Student, Education Division, 我要吃瓜 (ongoing)

BA Geography, University of Cambridge, 2017-2020

SCVO Project Management Certified

2023 Spiritual Ecology Certificate, RBGE and Emergence Magazine