Meet the academic panel for our Good Life Schools programme
Our Good Life Schools programme, supported by The National Lottery Community Fund, launched in September and is a student-led programme working with 11–18-year-olds to strengthen the relationship between schools and their local community to support a low-consumption, low carbon culture.
We are pleased to announce that we are working with an independent and multidisciplinary academic panel with expertise in environmental behaviour change and wellbeing who provide assurance on our theory of change, the evaluation process, analysis and conclusions.
Our panel members are:
Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University
Mike is the author of acclaimed books There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, and How Bad Are Bananas? The carbon footprint of everything. Mike will be supporting on capturing the ripple effect of Good Life Schools and advising on incorporating carbon measurement into the project from a values lens.
The reason why the Good Life Schools project is so important is that the next generation need to learn how to question all our social norms and to create an entirely new and sustainable approach to good living.
- Mike Berners-Lee
Greg Maio, University of Bath
Greg’s work focuses on human values, attitudes, prejudice, and family relationships. Greg will be advising on evaluation measurement.
It is vital that there are opportunities for young people to identify ways in which they can help to lead positive environmental change.
- Greg Maio
Dr Jennifer Rudd, Swansea University
Jennifer lectures in environmental management and sustainability and researches climate change education. Jennifer will be advising on the development of workshop resources and teacher education.
This is an exciting project that will support teachers to deliver the Curriculum for Wales whilst also inspiring learners to think differently about the world around them.
- Jennifer Rudd
Peter Sutoris, University of Leeds
Peter’s research focuses on imagination of alternative environmental futures and teaching for change. Peter will be advising on evaluation measurement, workshop resources and documentary capture.
The Good Life Schools programme shines a spotlight on sustainability challenges that don’t get discussed in schools often enough.
- Peter Sutoris
Lukas Wolf, University of Bath
Lukas’s current research focuses on how shared values can bring people together for a common purpose. Lukas will be advising on evaluation measurement.
The programme’s approach aligns with past evidence we gathered, which makes me optimistic that the programme will be effective in building young people’s resilience to consumerist pressures and empowering them to act.
- Lukas Wolf
As Good Life Schools starts to be rolled out in schools around the UK, we are very excited to be working with our expert academic panel who are advising us on how we can deliver the very best programme experience to students.
Insights from the panel will continue to shape and guide Good Life Schools over the next two years and help students to think critically and live differently.
Claire Arnott, Head of Good Life Schools at Global Action Plan