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Dr Elizabeth Rushton

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Associate Professor of Education, Institute of Education, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, United Kingdom

Email: l.rushton@ucl.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Lizzie Rushton is Research-Lead of UCL's Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education and Programme Leader of the MA Education. She has worked previously as a secondary school geography teacher, evaluation lead for an education charity and as inaugural director of the secondary geography teacher education programme, based at King's College London. Her research has been funded by Leverhulme, ESRC and the British Educational Research Association. Lizzie is co-founder and Managing Editor of Routes - the Journal for Student Geographers, an open access space for peer-reviewed scholarship authored by undergraduate and post-16 geographers.

Research

Publications

Dunlop, L. & Rushton, E.A.C. (2022). Putting climate change at the heart of education: Is England’s strategy a placebo for policy? British Educational Research Journal http://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3816

Dunlop, L., Rushton, E.A.C., Atkinson, L., Ayre, J., Bullivant, A., Essex, J., Price, L., Smith, A., Summer, M., Stubbs, J., Turkenburg-van Diepen, M. & Wood, L. (2022) Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: a co-created manifesto. British Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3803 

Dunlop, L., Rushton, E.A.C., Atkinson, L., Blake, C., Calvert, S., Cornelissen, E., Dècle, C.M.M., De Schriver, J., Dhassi, K.K., Edwards, R.P.R., Malaj, G., Mirjanić, J., Saunders, W.E.H., Sinkovec, Y., Stadnyk, T., Štofan, J., Stubbs, J.E., Su, C., Turkenburg-van Diepen, M., Vellekoop, S., Veneu, F. and Yuan, X. (2022). Youth co-authorship as public engagement with geoengineering. International Journal of Science Education (Part B). https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2022.2027043

Dunlop, L., Rushton, E.A.C., Atkinson, L., Blake, C., Calvert, S., Cornelissen, E., Dècle, C.M.M., De Schriver, J., Dhassi, K.K., Edwards, R.P.R., Malaj, G., Mirjanić, J., Saunders, W.E.H., Sinkovec, Y., Stadnyk, T., Štofan, J., Stubbs, J.E., Su, C., Turkenburg-van Diepen, M., Vellekoop, S., Veneu, F. and Yuan, X. (2021). An introduction to the co-creation of policy briefs with youth and academic teams. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.2001793

Rushton, E.A.C., Dunlop, L., Atkinson, L., Price, L., Stubbs, J.E., Turkenburg-van Diepen, M. & Wood, L. (2021). The challenges and affordances of online participatory workshops in the context of young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: insights from facilitators. Children’s Geographies. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2021.2007218

Expertise

Climate change and sustainability education, youth and teacher engagement in environmental and/or education policy making, teacher professional development
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