Earth Fellows Edit 2025

Welcome

Edinburgh Earth Initiative's Earth Fellows programme gives current students the unique opportunity to work on paid climate and environment projects, engage with professional development events and build a network for collective action on climate change. This year's Earth Fellows Edit showcases the wonderful work of many of this year's Earth Fellows, and acts as a record of their contributions to our collective climate knowledge.

For the second year we also include quotes from project partners across the University. The Earth Fellows programme could not run without the fantastic collaboration from all our project partners and we are very grateful for your ongoing support.

Interdisciplinary research

Rachel Carlile, Freya Buckley, Beth Pottle, Nick Wray, Kaia Waxenberg, Masood Rehman

We carried out interdisciplinary research across the University's six climate and environment challenge areas, supported by research staff across the University.

Knowledge sharing and global partnerships

Katherine Taylor, Alys Daniels-Creasey, Esther Githinji, Jennifer Salmon, George Mayenga, Haili Wu, Mai Li Spencer

We worked with colleagues across the University to organise conferences, engage with COP29 climate conference and build online and in-person research communities.

Climate and sustainability in the curriculum

Rachel Sharp, Katherine Troeller, Juliet Booker

We strengthened sustainability teaching at the University of Edinburgh through curriculum mapping, evaluating learning experiences, and organising a conference for the teaching and learning community.