Episode 24: This is Education - The Louder Than Words Podcast

Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex

Department of Sociology, University of Essex

Katy's work deals with the ways ordinary consumers respond to the normative pressures placed upon them to act in sustainable or responsible ways. Katy has researched the Fairtrade movement and recycling in comparative contexts, exploring how these different consumer practices generate distinctive moral economies. There has been a growing interest in the concept of moral economy along with the growing interest in sustainable consumption and markets. Her recent work develops a holistic moral economy framework that explores the interactions and interdependencies between individuals, communities and political-economic structures. She is also exploring the ways young people are educated about sustainability through a British Academy Small Grant, entitled 'Educating young people as sustainable citizen-consumers'.

Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

I am a researcher-practitioner, teacher, writer and theatre director. At present, I am Co-director of the Centre for Theatre Research (CTR) and a Senior Lecturer in Theatre in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. My research and teaching interests include Postdigital and Intermedial Performance, Embodiment and Immersion in Contemporary Performance, Science-art Interdisciplinarity and Object-led Theatre. In 2021, I was awarded a Times Higher Education's 'Most Innovative Teacher of the Year' Award (sponsored by Advance HE).