Sian Cowman

BACKGROUND

Sian Cowman is a self-employed educator, researcher, and social journalist, specialising in climate change and environmental justice issues. Her skills include detailed research, writing, content creation and editing. Sian also has extensive experience in facilitating and leading workshops and training sessions, as well as chairing and managing events. She spent years working in Latin America on environmental justice issues, accompanying groups and communities resisting fossil fuel and mining projects. Her previous roles include Coordinator of the Latin America Solidarity Centre and Education Officer with Friends of the Earth Ireland.

She has recently completed an MA in Critical & Creative Media at Maynooth University, where her research focused on journalism and far-right movements in the context of Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests. Her other education achievements include a Postgraduate Specialisation in Epistemologies of the South from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences. A fluent Spanish speaker, Sian is also experienced in translation work and consecutive or simultaneous interpretation into English.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Sian is currently managing a pilot programme of a new Junior Cycle Short Course in Climate Action, working as part of a team with Educators for Sustainability to support secondary school teachers with training and resource-sharing. She is also writing a handbook in climate justice education for the City of Dublin Education Training Board (ETB), as part of their Adult Education Service’s first Climate Justice Education Strategy. Sian is also a research assistant in UCD for Education in a Warming World, a global consortium of university lecturers and researchers working on the climate crisis.

Find Sian on Twitter @Sian_Cowman