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Isobel Talks is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer. She earned her DPhil in 2022 from the Department of Education at Oxford, with a dissertation critically examining development, gender and education in Bangladesh. Isobel co-created and co-teaches the course ‘Environmental Education’ in the Department of Geography. She is passionate about agroecology and ensuring that we have the skills we need for transforming our food system so that it is better for people and the planet.

Isobel was a Co-Investigator on the ‘Skills for Sustainable Farming Futures’ Fell Funded project and was a part of the organising team for the 2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the United Nations. Currently she is working on a project about Net Zero education. Isobel consults for both the NAEE and NAAEE (National and North American Associations of Environmental Education). She also helps to facilitate the Agroecology Research Collaboration which is a joint initiative from the Landworkers’ Alliance, Pasture for Life, the CSA Network, the Organic Growers’ Alliance, the Ecological Land Co-operative and the Permaculture Association.