Dr Verity Jones

Dr Verity Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and Childhood at UWE Bristol. Her area of interest is developing young people’s education on sustainability - working with children, for example, through the understanding of fashion-sourcing and of edible insects as a natural food source. She is exploring how to support young people in the climate and ecological emergency amid the related eco-anxieties that are being reported. Anxiety and how we support young people navigating this is central to many of her projects. There are many uncertainties relating to global food security and the place of edible insects may be one potential dietary change that occurs in the west. Working with Bug Farm Foods she has undertaken research with children relating to edible insects and this resulted in the incorporation of edible insects into school canteens in schools in Wales.

Verity has worked with a multidisciplinary team on developing a children’s picture book and teaching resources that guide young people through the concerns of water scarcity in the UK, winning the silver medal in the Geographical Association’s publishing awards (2020). Verity has worked in the charity, public and private sectors - all in the field of young people and sustainable development. She has been Education Officer for Europe’s leading eco-centre (The Centre for Alternative Technology), Oxford University Press’s first Primary consultant, advisor to the National Botanic Garden of Wales and she continues to work with the international charity, Fashion Revolution, where she co-wrote and lead their online course ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ (delivered via FutureLearn platform).