Project Lead / Co-Lead Work Package 1 (Re-Act)
Andrik Becht is an assistant professor in the Youth & Family department at Utrecht University. He studies identity development in young people, focusing on the formation of green identities and coping with climate change-related mental health issues. His teaching reflects his research interests. Andrik coordinates a course on adolescent development where he addresses climate change related emotions, attitudes and behaviors. He also gives guest lectures on these topics in other courses. Additionally, he leads the USO project ‘Crisis to Resilience: Student Empowerment in the Climate Emergency and Beyond’, which develops educational modules to help students address climate challenges and build resilience
a.i.becht@uu.nl

Lead Evaluation and Dissemination
Larike Bronkhorst works as an associate professor at the Department of Education. She coordinates the two-year research master Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction. Larike is best known for her work on boundary crossing, in which she studies how individuals from different educational settings learn in different contexts, including school, home, work, leisure, online and ‘in the wild’. She tries to unravel when discontinuity in learning between different contexts can be beneficial for learning, but also how we as a society can prevent certain pupils and students from being marginalised in education. Larike’s most recent line of research ‘Learning to change the world’ focuses on learning in (climate) activism. In this project, Larike and colleagues explore under which circumstances learning in the context of (climate) activism translates into learning and development in other contexts, and how we as education could respond to this.
l.h.bronkhorst@uu.nl

Project Advisor
Eggo Müller is Professor of Media and Communication at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University. He graduated from the Free University Berlin and received his PhD in Media Studies from the University of Hildesheim (Germany) in 1987 with a study of TV dating shows. Current research includes environmental media, big data in in extractive agricultural systems, food communication, and cultural pathways to sustainable, just and healthy futures. His projects are attached to Utrecht University’s strategic research themes Pathways to Sustainability (research community Future Food), Institutions for Open Societies (research platform Fair Transitions), and to Utrecht University’s Network for Environmental Humanities.
e.muller@uu.nl

Lead Work Package 1 (Re-Act)
Jeroen Oomen is assistant professor at the Urban Futures Studio, where he focuses on the social, cultural, and scientific practices that create societies’ conceptions of the future. Coming from an interdisciplinary background spanning philosophy, political science, sociology, and the history of science and technology, Jeroen’s main interest is in how knowledge is made, and what the consequences are of particular types of knowledge for social organisations, democracy, and power structures. His main research interests are climate policy, geoengineering, and social theory, specifically where it concerns questions of sustainability.
j.j.oomen@uu.nl

Lead Work Package 2 (Re-Create)
Trained as a social historian of the Soviet Union (MA and PhD, University of Chicago 2016), my research focuses on southern Central Asia, and I am broadly interested in the entanglements of nature and culture in the modern period. A five year postdoc at the University of Tübingen, in a Junior Research Group led by Dr Jeanne Feaux de la Croix, allowed me the space to develop as an environmental historian. I have conducted archival research in Moscow and Tajikistan, as well as oral history interviews with members of the Soviet Tajik intelligentsia, former dam builders, factory workers and farmers in Tajikistan. My fieldwork in Central Asia and the Russian Federation has been funded by the University of Chicago (2010-11), the University of Tübingen (2016-2018), and the RedGold project hosted by the EHESS in Paris (2019-2023).
f.j.h.c.roberts@uu.nl

Lead Work Package 3 (Re-Imagine) / Project Co-Lead
Stefan Werning is an Associate Professor for Digital Media and Game Studies at Utrecht University, where he co-coordinates the focus area Game Research and organizes the annual summer school Multidisciplinary Game Research. Previously, Stefan worked as an assistant professor in Bayreuth and Bonn. Stefan has been a visiting scholar (2005) and fellow (2006-2010) at the program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Moreover, he has worked in the digital games industry while completing his PhD research, most notably at Codemasters (2005) and Nintendo of Europe (2007-09). Stefan’s latest book Making Games: The Poetics and Politics of Game Creation Tools was published in the Playful Thinking Series at MIT Press (2021).
s.werning@uu.nl