Watch the ACCESS Assembly 2025 Sessions
Published on 15 July 2025
If you missed this year’s ACCESS Assembly – or would like to rewatch any of the sessions from the event – the recordings of the keynote presentations are now available to view.
Place-Sensitive Just Transitions
Najma Mohamed (United Nations Environment Program – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)) delivered the keynote, followed by presentations from:
- Greg Marsden (Place Theme Lead, Energy Demand Research Centre & University of Leeds)
- Huei-Ling Lai (National Sun Yat-Sen University Taiwan)
- Sherilyn MacGregor (JUST (Joined-up Sustainability Transformations) Centre, University of Manchester)
This session and Q&A were chaired by Gesche Huebner (European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter)
‘Effective’ Interdisciplinary
Speakers were:
- Ian Walker (Swansea University)
- Sandra Bogelein (Climate Change Committee)
- Gary Kass (Imperial College London & University of Surrey)
- Helen Roberts CMet (Met Office)
The panel discussion and Q&A were chaired by Susan Owens OBE (University of Cambridge)
Showcase of the ACCESS Flex Fund Round 2 Projects
We had presentations from the three Flex Fund Round 2 projects:
- Sarah Parry (University of Edinburgh) and Joe Dunn (WildLand Ltd), ‘Transforming with care’
- Davide Pettinato (University of Cambridge) and Mohammed Fezaan Azam (Cambridge Central Mosque), ‘Nurturing nature connection among British Muslims through a faith-literate framework’
- Matilda Becker (University of Oxford) and Tom Maitland (Youth Advisory Board), ‘Unlocking the power of youth to develop equity in net-zero governance’
The session and Q&A were chaired by ACCESS Co-Director Birgitta Gatersleben.