How to be an academic in a world on fire?
As scientists concerned about the climate crisis, we set out to rethink the role and goals of the university in tackling the 21st century’s challenges. Inspired by Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, we propose seven new ways to thinking – not only to help us think, but also to act.
Read the paper: Urai AE, Kelly C (2023) Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. eLife 12:e84991. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84991
Watch a 5-minute video (recorded by Clare for the Social Psychology of the Future meeting)
Media
- April 2024: Anne is interviewed by Leiden University
- Naked Scientists’ podcast interview
- Interview by Kjerstin Gjengedal (in Norwegian)
- 08-11-2023 Blog by Muenster University [in German]
- Review by Bryan Alexander, author of Universities on fire: higher education in the climate crisis
Workshops and events
Slides with our workshop materials for 'doughnut academia', adapted from the original DEAL tools on the 'doughnut unrolled' workshop
- 13-10-2022 Keynote at (in)credible conference, Charité Berlin
- 22-03-2022 Climate teach-in, Leiden University College
- 11-04-2023 Growing Up in Science webinar
- 30-05-2023 Doughnut action mapping by Dr. Abi Perron, York University
- 20-06-2023 Workshop at Globe Institute, Copenhagen University, hosted by Anne
- 21-06-2023 Workshop held at Centre for Global Change and Sustainability, BOKU Austria: impression and results
- 25-08-2023 Workshop at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience in Oxford, hosted by Clare and Anne
- 07-12-2023: workshop at Leiden Sustainability Series
- 15-12-2023: workshop at NVP Brain and Cognition conference
- 06-02-2024: workshop at University of Amsterdam, Center for Responsible Consumption
- 16-01-2024: talk at Space Telescope Science Institute [recording]
- 27-02-2024: workshop at University of Galway
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