Webinar: Human rights and climate change: Testing 5 lessons tying climate justice, litigation, and attribution science for secondary aged students

Travis T. Fuchs is a SSHRC Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at Brock University, an Honorary Norham Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education, and Researcher in Residence at Crofton House School. He is a co-founder of the Oxford Education Deanery Sustainability Team. His current projects include teacher climate change and sustainability education, teachers’ engagement in and with research as forms of professional development, and instructional approaches which leverage socioscientific issues in science learning contexts. Travis has received numerous awards for his research in teacher professional development and science education, including the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Killam Doctoral Scholarship, and SSHRC Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship. He was nominated by the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Education for the Governor General’s Gold Medal as the top doctoral student at the university. Travis is a licensed teacher in Ontario and British Columbia. He completed graduate training at Harvard (EdM), Oxford (Recognized Student), and the University of British Columbia (PhD).

Phoebe Mortimer is an English teacher, and the Sustainability Lead for a large Multi Academy Trust with expertise in sustainability curriculum design, teacher training and school management.

Isabella Lenihan-Ikin is a Researcher and DPhil Student of Clinical Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. Her thesis focuses on the health impacts of climate change on workers in Aotearoa New Zealand, through a just transition lens. Her research uses qualitative research methods to understand the structural tools that we have available to prevent and mitigate potential health risks induced by climate change.

Shirin Ermis is a doctoral researcher working in collaboration with the UK Met Office. She focuses on extreme event attribution using medium-range weather forecasts to assess changes in extreme weather events. For now, she is assessing mid-latitude storms, using the storyline approach of event attribution. My supervisory team is Dr Antje Weisheimer, Dr Sarah Sparrow, Dr Fraser Lott, and Dr Nick Leach. Shirin obtained a BSc in Physics from Heidelberg (Germany) and a MSc in Physics with Extended Research from Imperial College London. She is also interested in evidence-based policy and science journalism.