The Zennström Professors of Climate Change Leadership
The Climate Change Leadership Node is focused around a 10-year series of visiting professorships. In total, five internationally recognised Zennström Professors in Climate Change Leadership will work with academics, students, civil society and public and private partners to both understand the scale of the civilisational transition needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change and to begin to develop routes towards that transition and prepare for adaptation.
Stefania Barca - gästprofessor på Zennströms klimatprofessur 2021
During her time in Uppsala Stefania Barca brought a strong commitment to questions of climate justice to her work. Recognising the privileged positioning of her professorship within the climate change conversation, a key focus of her activities lay on elevating diverse ways of thinking about climate change. Counter-hegemonic narratives on climate change have been converging in recent years through the global climate justice movement and include, but are not limited to, the perspectives of rural; black, indigenous and other people of colour (BIPOC); women, and LGBTQI+ persons. Taking an approach to climate change leadership that was intersectional and inclusive, foregrounding the struggles, experiences and visions of different peoples emerged as a priority.
Keri Facer – Zennström Visiting Professor 2019–2020
Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, School of Education. She works on rethinking the relationship between formal educational institutions and wider society and is particularly concerned with the sorts of knowledge that may be needed to address contemporary environmental, economic, social, and technological changes.
Since 2013, Keri has been Leadership Fellow for the RCUK Connected Communities Programme. This research programme is creating new relationships between communities and universities, drawing on arts and humanities perspectives and methods to enable new forms of knowledge production to address urgent contemporary issues.
Keri’s aim is to work across the whole of Uppsala University to explore how universities can build partnerships with local, national, and international communities, how we can develop powerful knowledge, and how we can educate students to enable the massive transitions we need to live well with climate change.
Kevin Anderson – Zennström Visiting Professor 2016–2018
Kevin Anderson is one of the leading climate scientists in the U.K. He is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and Deputy Director at the renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
Kevin is a well-known and established researcher within climate change science who engages frequently with policy-makers, the private sector, civil society as well as the media. He has pioneered research on carbon budgets and pathways to acceptable mitigation levels. His work on the technical, social and economic interactions involved in the transformation of energy systems and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, addresses questions at the core of this professorship’s theme.
Kevin is a prominent thinker, writer and communicator who built on and expanded the work of the first visiting professor in Climate Change Leadership, Doreen Stabinsky.
Kevin Anderson
Visiting professor at Department of Earth Sciences, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
- Email:
- kevin.anderson[AT-sign]geo.uu.se
- Telephone:
- +4618-471 6854
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 1679877
Doreen Stabinsky – Zennström Visiting Professor 2015–2016
Doreen Stabinsky is Professor of Global Environmental Politics at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Her research, teaching, and writing concern the impacts of climate change, particularly on agriculture and global food security. She also serves as advisor to various governments and international environmental organisations, and has a large international network of collaborators.
Doreen stresses the central role that education must play in addressing the growing challenges of climate change and is known for her ability to strengthen young people’s capacity to contribute to a better world. The fact that the focus of the professorship itself was inspired by, and emerged from a student-led course on Climate Change Leadership at CEMUS, made Doreen a fitting first holder of the Zennström Visiting Professorship.
