We all have a responsibility to future life
Crises are colliding. Academia is not set up to help society navigate towards a safer, fairer, and more sustainable future.
We can change this.
We all have a responsibility to future life
Crises are colliding. Academia is not set up to help society navigate towards a safer, fairer, and more sustainable future.
We can change this.
Faculty for a Future works to champion academic practices that embrace and embody the crucial need for societal transformation.
If you feel a duty of care over Earth’s colliding social and environmental crises and want your work to better meet them, check out our resources for ideas on how you might transform your research, educational practices, or engagement.
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Our story
Faculty for a Future was formed in summer 2021 by a group of academics who felt similarly disempowered and unable to face up to a complex and precarious future.
To find out more about our perspective on this future, please read our analysis of the crisis, a distillation of research at the intersection of social and ecological issues into six key points describing the world ahead. It outlines our understanding of the emerging world and informs the objectives and development of all of our work.
For our thoughts on the role of academia in this crisis, check out our about us page.
Values
Academia has never been value-free. To orient objective academic work towards a safer, fairer, and healthier future, we are guided by four values.
Acceptance: We join the dots between different academic disciplines and lived experience, actively acknowledging the severity of environmental and social crises.
Care: We feel a duty of care to those most affected by these crises, and a responsibility to prioritise life, wellbeing, and justice.
Integrity: We aim to conduct our personal and professional lives with respect, courage, and modesty, towards a better and more equal future for all living things.
Freedom: We seek ever greater freedom to act with care and integrity, so that others can enjoy ever greater freedom to live well.
