Our guest speakers will be Professor Liz Price of Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK and Professor Nicole Ardoin of Stanford University in the US. These two leaders in their fields will be sharing and discussing higher education institutional responses to climate change.

Information on our speakers:

Portrait of Liz Price

 

Professor Liz Price - Manchester Metropolitan University
Liz Price is Professor of Environmental Education and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work focuses on two themes: education for sustainable development and processes governing plant community composition with applications in conservation. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Environmentalist, and advocates impactful education informed by research and professional practice. Liz has been a member of the Community for Environmental Disciplines in Higher Education (CEDHE) committee since 2014 and has been the Chair of the committee since 2018. She works closely with IES and industry to develop and support members in their education and careers.

 

Portrait of Nicole Ardoin

 

Professor Nicole Ardoin - Stanford University
Nicole Ardoin, Emmett Family Faculty Scholar, is an Associate Professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences in the Division of Social Sciences in the newly-established Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS). She is also a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. Professor Ardoin and her Social Ecology Lab research motivations for and barriers to environmental behavior at the individual and collective scales. They use mixed-methods approaches--including participant observation, a variety of interview types, surveys, mapping, network analysis, and ethnography, among others--to consider the influence of place-based connections, environmental learning, and social-ecological interactions on participation in a range of environmental and sustainability-related decisionmaking processes. Professor Ardoin and her interdisciplinary group pursue their scholarship with a theoretical grounding and orientation focused on applications for practice; much of her lab's work is co-designed and implemented with community collaborators through a field-based, participatory frame. Professor Ardoin is an associate editor of the journal Environmental Education Research, a trustee of the California Academy of Sciences, and chair of NatureBridge's Education Advisory Council, among other areas of service within the environment and conservation field.

We hope you can join us!