Keri Facer

Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, UK where she leads the British Academy ‘Times of a Just Transition’ Programme and is Co-investigator on the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Her research explores how formal and informal education can foster the imaginative and affective capabilities needed to understand, shape and respond to disruptive technological and environmental change.

Keri was previously Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, expert advisory group member of UNESCO’s Futures of Education Commission and Research Director at Futurelab. Amongst other projects, she is currently working with Black Mountains college to set up a new university dedicated to the challenge of creating good societies in a warming world and collaborating with the poverty charity, the Joseph Rowntree foundation, on their ‘imagination infrastructure’ programme. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Futures.