The Brigstow Institute and Cabot Institute for the Environment’s new Personal to the Planetary (P2P) Community Fellowships have brought together ten talented environmentalists for a deep and sustained engagement around the climate emergency.  

The Fellows are drawn from researchers, community groups, the voluntary sector, individuals and artists from a variety of professions and disciplines. 

Over a period of ten months (June 2024 to April 2025) Close and Remote (Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter) will be working with the Fellows to form a core inter-disciplinary group to collaborate with the community and other stakeholders to consider climate change and our response to the climate emergency.  

Using a co-creative and intersectional cohort model, the Fellows will look at how the scale of the planetary crisis can disempower people from feeling they can act. They will work within communities and together as a cohort to have discussions about how people usually absent from climate debates can be brought to the fore. 

The new Fellows that have been appointed are:

– Yaz Brien. An activist and trainer with interests in climate justice and futures.
– Emma Geen. A disability climate justice consultant, researcher, author and activist.
– Natalie Hyacinth. A composer, researcher, cultural geographer with interests in blue environments.
– Tim Kindberg. A writer and creative technologist interested in imagined futures.
– Zakiya McKenzie. A writer, researcher, facilitator and journalist.
– Polly Meyrick.  An artist, musician, activist and farm worker.
– Emmanuella Morsi. An artist, producer, researcher and innovator.
– Erika Teichert.  A researcher with interests in visual culture and environmental justice.
– Iman Sultan West. An artist, poet, consultant and curator.
– Kirill Vlasov. A researcher, geochemist, climate activist and communicator.

We’re very excited to be working with such an inspiring group of people. More details on what emerges coming soon.