Joycelyn Longdon | Natural Connection

Fri 25 Apr 2025 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Jocelyn Longdon
Joycelyn Longdon book

Joycelyn Longdon is a University of Cambridge environmental justice researcher, who shares her lyrical book Natural Connection to inspire us to view climate action as a shared goal rather than an individual burden.

Merging ancient wisdom with modern technology she examines  6 key pillars, RAGE, IMAGINATION, INNOVATION, THEORY, HEALING, CARE. The result is Natural Connection which brings together lessons from people of colour from the US to the UK, Brazil to India and Nigeria to Iran to showcase how the extraordinary acts of ordinary people have paved the way for today’s rapid technological changes. She will inspire us to better understand how we can all take up new roles in the fight for sustainability beyond the activist and observer binary, and find our way back towards our roots.

 

Venue: Old Divinity School

Duration: 1 hour

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4.30pm | 24 April | Old Divinity School
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Author Biography

Joycelyn Longdon is an award-winning environmental justice researcher and educator. Her PhD research centres on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana, specialising in biodiversity monitoring through the application of AI to forest soundscapes. Uncovering the inherent connection between ecology, sociology and technology, her research has disrupted a stagnant and often colonial and extractive field of research and made clear for a justice-centred approach to the application of technology in conservation. She has presented her work to a wide range of audiences, most recently through her TEDxLondon Talk.

She is also the founder of ClimateInColour, an online educational platform and community for the climate curious, making climate conversations more accessible, diverse and hopeful.