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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