Researcher
An artistic director interested in how art practices can bring empowering messages about climate, and a senior lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts (University of Birmingham).
A social anthropologist researching scientific, artistic, cultural and environmental histories of Brazilian landscapes, with a special interest in climate change, Anthropocene, nature and society, and imagination.
A professor of Geography (Durham University), exploring how ‘climate change’ is a form of power shaping who we are and how we act in the world.
An interdisciplinary artist and project manager using walking and mapping to explore how people interact with places, drawing attention to human entanglements within a multi-species environment.
An emerging new media artist whose artistic strategies for understanding natural processes reflect previous research as a metallurgist and lifelong interests in nature, photography and science.
A visual artist in analogue and digital media, fascinated by the ways built and natural structures change over time, currently exploring the ephemeral nature of wetlands.
An artist, educator, activist and collaborator across disciplines creating events, performances and projects that invite people into enquiring relationships with each other and the land.
A multidisciplinary artist whose work, often collaborative, is inspired by difficult contemporary and future sociological concerns surrounding issues such as food security and migration.
A reader in Ecological Linguistics (University of Gloucestershire), writer on language, reconnection with nature, the stories we live by, and founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association.
An artist, teacher and storyteller creating experiences for participation with the natural environment, and training as a facilitator in deep listening and the work that reconnects.
Director of Creative Carbon Scotland, supporting the essential role of arts and culture in transformational change to a sustainable future, and a researcher exploring behaviour change.
An independent researcher and creative curator, founding Climate Museum UK as an emerging mobile kit of ‘loose parts’ that creatively stirs responses to the climate emergency.
An interdisciplinary artist and founder of the Nomad/9 Interdisciplinary MFA, exploring resiliency through poetic intervention and pragmatic engagement, including intimate interspecies works and international educational initiatives.
An artist and researcher exploring eco-social wellbeing by bringing art and non-art practices together in creative practice and offering Ecoliteracy learning for the arts.
A biologist with a research focus on Rewilding and an interest in applying its concepts to integrate human and ecological systems for the benefit of all.
A writer, editor, performer, project-maker and researcher exploring ways of bringing together traditional story forms and science communication with a focus on ecological wonder tales.
A PhD researcher exploring the ways in which encounters with interactive art may offer us different ways of knowing climate change.
An editor of Green Christian and organiser of an environment group, using films, music and poetry to communicate climate change and motivate group formation.
A Climate Ambassador with Physicians for Social Responsibility, a painter and retired research scientist who brings science into art galleries, promoting art that addresses climate change.
An environmental geographer interested in coastal management and nature conservation in times of a changing climate, with a current focus on the Wadden Sea coast.
An independent advisor with special interest in intersections between culture and environment, coordinating the Convention on Wetlands’ Culture Network and chairing the Arts & Environment Network
A researcher interested in environmental humanities, focusing on tourism discourses about nature and its ethical values.
A writer and photographer, using these to inform, educate, discuss, and make people think about the world around us and our impact upon it.
A fine artist concerned with place and belonging, informed by the cosmology of African animism within the complex human and other-than-human networks that encompass a landscape.
An artist examining our disconnection with ‘nature’ and each other via discarded materials, text, performance and video, whose performance commiserates redundant packaging and honours ‘natural’ products.
A professor of Biology (University College London) whose research focuses on natural and cultural value and the impact of environmental change on biodiversity.
A poet, writer, performer and musician working on tropical forests and land rights, oil extraction, biological diversity, patents on life, biofuels, climate change and much more.
An independent artist, teacher and researcher interested in place seen through the lens of Felix Guattari’s ecosophy, working extensively on ‘deep mapping’, other projects and publications.
A researcher focused on subjects that connect science and design fields and have deep critical and social impact, such as sustainability, culture, heritage and education.
A poet and critic interested in climate change, nonhuman representation and ecopoetics, whose debut poetry collection, ‘Significant Other’, addresses the effect of climate change on biodiversity.
A postgraduate student researching ecomusicology and ecospiritual music, and a singer and musician exploring ecological themes.
A multi-media artist immersed in current social, political and scientific thinking, whose work encourages thought, conversation and action, focusing on the climate crisis and single-use plastics.
A historical geographer interested in the history of modernity and modern spaces, studying modernity in transnational perspective, geographical frontiers and the nature/culture divide.
A writer and visual artist who has created several environmental poetry installations and collaborated on a dance–poem juxtaposing the natural world and the city in movement.
An interdisciplinary artist-curator, publisher and climate activist endeavouring to reveal creative patterns embodied within our symbiosis with places, environments, natural systems, and with each other.
A writer and filmmaker linking art forms to dialogue around climate issues, whose practice stretches back to theatre-making.
An artist, producer and researcher whose practice is embedded in long-term research and fieldwork, developing a body of work concerned with fear and isolation within society.
An ‘undisciplined’ researcher exploring how re-presentations — popular culture, arts, media, and scenarios — of futures, presents and pasts shape problem formulations, expectations and action (or the lack).
A climate change dramatist and activist now setting up a community news platform to provide curated, verified user-generated content for grassroots news stories about the environment.
An artist and PhD student using the life cycles and movements of moths to investigate how we can reconnect with the other-than-human through materials and making.
A prose and poetry writer presenting imaginative perspectives on the climate crisis, and encouraging book people to change what they do and how they do it.
A researcher helping arts and cultural organisations to improve their environmental and energy management and understand their inter-dependencies and relationships with natural and human made systems.
A researcher investigating the role of arts venues in the context of climate change, and Founder of ONCA, a gallery and performance space inspiring positive action.
An artist-researcher who develops interpretive and participatory positions within the community, contributes to eco-social actions, and creates interactive artworks to disseminate the community’s embodied knowledge.
A professor of Anthropology focusing on how Maya and other societies dealt with climate change: the emergence and demise of political power, ritual and water management.
A poet, research student and sci-art practitioner, interested in practitioner-led discourse and new collaborations to take her Rachel Carson-focused work to events, festivals and conferences.
A visual artist exploring themes of childhood, place and belonging, whose participatory practice and responsive processes aim to help people think imaginatively with themselves and others.
An assistant professor in Politics and International Studies (Warwick University) whose research explores ethical theory in the context of apocalyptic narratives of climate change.
An image-maker, curator, and educator working predominantly with photographic-based mediums to explore our precarious relationship to the natural world.
A scholar in English Linguistics and Translation whose research includes political and environmental discourse, with a focus on ideology, and who is also a cycling advocate.
An independent researcher, project and events manager, and writer on environmental and climate change issues – investigating, supporting and delivering cultural and creative responses.
A vicar of a remote rural parish, exploring how communities can become resilient and sustainable in the face of climate change.
A human geographer interested in the contemporary politics of climate change, how future atmospheres are imagined, constructed, represented and contested and historical geographies of environmental knowledge-making.
A visual artist, writer and essayist whose work’s central question is what ecological recovery requires of us, faced with anthropogenic mass-extinction.
An environmental change & sustainability researcher interested in environmental archaeology and public engagement, working on a theatre project to explore climate change’s disruption of everyday lives.
A researcher, coach, facilitator and consultant with cultural, arts and heritage organisations, specialising in creative nature-based and mindfulness-based approaches.
A set and costume designer focusing on sustainability, heritage crafts and social history, and associate artist with Art Rise Up, a group merging art and activism.
An educator and researcher networking with artists and scientists on climate change and currently writing climate fiction in an effort to make climate science more accessible.
A renewable energy technologies expert, leading the Zero Carbon Britain research at the Centre for Alternative Technology.
An artist and PhD candidate addressing the Anthropocene through art-based practice in contemporary painting and adopting an intimate, tactile, sensitive mode of painting everyday objects.
A bilingual writer and activist whose works include eco-disaster novel The Butterfly Effect and has worked with international NGOs and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
An academic and artist exploring global environmental change and provisionality in architectural thinking and practice, who convenes the Culture and Climate Change research and engagement framework.
A writer exploring the world through short stories, novels, poetry and non-fiction, who sees climate change as potentially existential for fellow travellers on planet Earth.
An independent contemporary art curator, working internationally and creatively with artists entirely on original commissions, directly engaged with the artist’s working process as far as possible.
An historian of air studying how humans have tried to understand the atmosphere, working with media and museums to tell compelling stories grounded in archival documents.
A researching, collaborating, exhibiting artist and curator, using video, drawing, performance, sculpture and narrative that interweave fact and fiction to explore possible sustainable futures.
A writer, artist and educator, producing picture books, a novel and songs, with a background teaching and facilitating arts and sustainability with schools and communities.
A writer, editor, researcher and activist exploring the cultural shift required to live regeneratively and adapt well to the Anthropocene.
A non-fiction writer and documentary maker inspired by dwelling, working and walking in the land and stories of the people who are a part of it.
An artist who co-creates spaces of naming, questioning, healing and desiring in dedication to humans and non-humans who experience intimately the violent consequences of our disconnect.
A researcher, film maker and festival manager creating strategies to deliver sustainability through the arts and research ways to disseminate education in an entertaining way.
An architect, sustainable designer and writer interested in the medium of text, exploring the repercussions of climate change through the lens of calculations, designs and technicalities.
A senior lecturer in Environmental Technologies (Open University), writer and performer of playful attempts at disrupting our relationship with climate change: science, psychology and surreal dance.
A social scientist researching communication and public understanding of climate change, with a background in psychology and interest in creative and artistic approaches to climate change.
A teacher of ethics, literature and academic writing, interested in narrative theory, embodiment, affect, ecocriticism, and climate change narratives relating to future identities in critical posthumanism.
An art curator, educator and writer with a background in the environmental movement, who has created GroundWork Gallery to showcase art and campaign for the environment.
A researcher and writer on performance and ecology, investigating how one ‘hears’ enmeshed dimensions of the human and other-than-human and the sonic languages of place.