Isobel Talks is a post-doctoral researcher, lecturer and consultant. She earned her DPhil in 2022 from the Department of Education at Oxford, with a dissertation critically examining development and education in Bangladesh. Isobel co-created and co-teaches the course ‘Environmental Education’ in the Department of Geography.
Isobel is a Co-Investigator on the ‘Skills for Sustainable Farming Futures’ Fell Funded project which is hosted by both the Education and Training for the Climate hub and the Centre on Skills, Knowledge, and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the Department of Education at Oxford. She is part of the organising team for the upcoming 2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the United Nations. Isobel also helps to facilitate the Agroecology Research Collaboration which is hosted by the Landworkers’ Alliance.
Previously Isobel was a researcher on two projects about climate change education – ‘Trust and Climate Change: Information for Teaching in a Digital Age’ and ‘Climate Change Education Futures in India’. She was also part of a project seeking to improve refugee health education in the UK and an educational inclusion project that explored the ways learning to code might benefit disadvantaged young women.
Alongside her academic work, Isobel is also an independent consultant and researcher for organisations including the National Association for Environmental Education, the North American Association for Environmental Education, Plan International, FCDO, and Save the Children. She has a Masters degree in Gender, with a specialisation in international development, from the London School of Economics, and an Undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Durham.