Watch the Assembly 2026 recordings

Our fifth and final ACCESS Assembly was held on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 June 2026 at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus.

We enjoyed keynotes from Prof. Julian Agyeman (Tufts, USA) and Prof. Yacob Mulugetta (UCL, African Institute for Sustainable Energy and Systems Analysis), an international discussion panel with Prof. Julie MacArthur (Royal Roads, Canada), Dr Saurabh Arora (University of Sussex) and Prof. Hsing-Sheng Tai and Prof. John Chung-En Liu (National Taiwan University) and sessions on negotiating the boundaries between policy and academia, and across disciplines and sectors.

There was also an emphasis on intersectionality at this year’s Assembly, with ACAI (Advisory Community to ACCESS on Intersectionality) supporting the Assembly steering group in helping to broaden the range of voices represented at the event and as well as delivering a session. Leadership College Fellows led a session on environmental leadership and our Flex Fund awardees presented their research.

View the full Assembly 2026 programme, speakers, and access the recordings and presentations of many of the Assembly sessions here.