Traceless – Songs of Resilience

Joanne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester. Her research and impact work since starting her PhD at The University of Manchester in 2000 has been driven by three questions:

How can we think about sustainability and the future in a way that inspires hope and action?
How can we work together effectively to achieve systemic change towards sustainable futures?
How can we learn from these efforts to achieve systemic change over time and across contexts?

Trying to answer these questions led to the creation of RoundView. She was granted a British Academy Innovation Fellowship with the UK National Commission for UNESCO to catalyse transformative sustainability learning and engagement with the RoundView.

She began working in community participation and ecological planning in the mid 90s in Southern Africa, and has won numerous awards for innovation and social impact, and is the Founder of the social business Ketso.