Dr. Therese Ferguson-Murray

Therese Ferguson holds a PhD in Environmental Management (The University of the West Indies), an MA Research Methodology (University of Liverpool), an MSc Natural Resource Management (The University of the West Indies) and a BA in English (The University of the West Indies). Dr. Ferguson is a Senior Lecturer in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the School of Education (SOE) at The University of the West Indies (Mona Campus, Jamaica). She serves as the Programme Leader for Change from Within, a school-based initiative in Jamaica that addresses violence and indiscipline through school culture change, which is implemented by the SOE. She is also the Coordinator of the ESD Working Group within the SOE, and serves as Programme Coordinator for the Master of Education Degree programme in Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship and Peace within the SOE. Before joining the SOE, Dr. Ferguson taught at both The University of Sheffield and the University of Guyana.  

Dr. Ferguson is an International Advisory Board Member of the journal Environmental Education Research, an Advisor for the Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP), and a Focal Point for the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions (INTEI). She also previously served for four years as an External Examiner for the Environmental Science Division in the Faculty of Science and Sport at the University of Technology, Jamaica. Her research interests lie in ESD, peace education, climate change education, qualitative research, and early-career researcher development. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications in these areas, inclusive of books, book chapters, journal articles and encyclopedia entries.