We live in an era of intensifying and entangled environmental and societal crises. Mitigating the worst effects of these crisis is possible through rapid and deep transformation of our societies. However, despite longstanding knowledge of the potentially devastating risks faced and growing awareness of the scale of injustice these risks would bring, societies are failing to rise to this challenge.

Education has a central role in this predicament. On the one hand education has helped to produce and reproduce the dominant forms of knowledge, culture and social arrangements that have led us here. On the other, education has the potential to underpin the new and transformative ways of thinking and acting that are required to bring about societal changes.

RE-SET exists to support critical interdisciplinary scholarship and innovative pedagogical practices that promote socially transformative and environmentally just responses to the crises in and through education. We understand education in broad terms as a complicated and multifaceted phenomena, combining formal and informal dimensions across a range of institutions, settings and demographics.

Based in the School of Education, Communication & Society, RE-SET is a collective of academics, students and educators who are concerned with researching and teaching education for a more liveable and just future. 

Group leads

Melissa Glackin (co-chair), John Owens, Heather King

Group members

Shirin Hine, Sophie Perry (co-chair), Neil Hart-Camus, Marguerite Müller, Rachel Sawle

Associate members

Kate Greer, Estelia Borguez Sanchez

Education programmes

• Environment and Society (BA Social Sciences)
• Environment, Sustainability and the Role of Education (MA STEM Education)