Our universities have huge untapped potential
Academia is not set up to help society navigate today's colliding environmental and social crises. But we can change this.
What if staff and students had more say on how their universities are run, and what they're for?
Our universities have huge untapped potential
Academia is not set up to help society navigate today's colliding environmental and social crises. But we can change this.
What if staff and students had more say on how their universities are run, and what they're for?
In April 2026, the stewardship of the Faculty for a Future project will transfer to the Climate Justice Universities Union
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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. Between 2021 and 2023 Faculty for a Future developed a number of resources designed to support academics feeling similarly.
In April 2026, the stewardship of the Faculty for a Future project will be transferred to the Climate Justice Universities Union. ClimateUni is an international, transdisciplinary movement-building collective working to leverage the transformative potential of higher education institutions to accelerate a just transition and advance climate justice. Its mission aligns closely with Faculty for a Future’s: to challenge business-as-usual in academia and support those working to reorient teaching, research, and institutional structures toward justice and ecological flourishing. You can find out more here.
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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.
