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Thoughts on working as a summer sustainability intern by Rowan Etheridge

A few months ago, I received an offer for this internship, much to my surprise. I promptly accepted, intrigued by the prospect of investigating the stories of the forest, with Indonesia as a case study. I was tasked with researching forest agreements, reading Indonesian literature of the forest, reading plenty of speculative fiction, and engaging…

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Life Lessons on Bali

A beach in Bali with a rural village on the shoreline in Nusa Penda

Life Lessons on Bali A Wasted Opportunity?As my second year was coming to an end, I was feeling unsure of the career I wanted to pursue after university. Many of my friends had already filled their summers with career-enriching opportunities. I, however, had just turned down a summer internship at a refugee camp in Calais…

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A Day in the forest

Autumn forest.

A Day in the forest Students of our Environment & Climate Politics module are usually asked to think about the environment and climate change from within the walls of a seminar room or a library. So a trip out to the Heart of England Forest in March 2023 for 14 of them and their friends seemed like…

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