Welcome to the website of the Leadership Networks for Climate Change (LNCC) project. This site will document the process of teachers at four universities in three Australian states who are creating networks to assist their passion for including climate change in their teaching.

The experiences of people involved at the University of Wollongong, the University of New South Wales, Murdoch University and the University of Tasmania, as they embark on creating their networks, will be presented here in the form of reflections, news stories, and documented teaching activities.

There is space to view the profiles and motivations of the individuals involved and access the project's resources.

Leadership Networks for Climate Change (LNCC) emerged out of a passion for teaching and a desire to better equip students to understand the complexities of climate change. It aims to provide a space and basic structure to allow for collaboration and create situations where inspiring and influential teaching can occur.

To do this requires working across the traditional university structure to make the student experience of learning about climate change comprehensive. The structure of the project allows staff working within different disciplines to have regular conversations with those in other disciplines, enmeshing activities and ideas of climate change within diverse teaching areas. The project recognises the challenges faced by academics desiring to teach this broad subject in ways which escape the restrictions of siloed disciplines. This the project attempts to help create a form of leadership and teaching structure that can move through these structural challenges.

The project is funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (the ALTC) and is an extension of a pilot study ran out of the University of Tasmania in 2008. The pilot network involved a group of academics teaching in areas from journalism to biology, primary education teacher training to geography. Face to face meetings with one another enabled climate change to become part of each subject in innovative ways that allowed for student led projects and ideas.

The LNCC project now aims to extend this pilot project to three new universities with the support of the ALTC. University of Woolongong, University of NSW and Murdoch University will join the University of Tasmania network in providing a discussion and support space for innovating climate change teaching and developing distributed leadership.

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