Dr Rebecca Wade
Senior Lecturer, University of Abertay
Rebecca Wade is passionate about working with nature to gain benefits for people and planet. She believes that by collaborating across disciplines, sectors, industry and policy we can deliver multiple benefits, collectively addressing the climate emergency, the biodiversity crisis and the need to create healthier communities for future generations.
Based at Abertay University, she is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and teaches on the Civil & Environmental Engineering degree programme. In addition to teaching, she conducts research, runs an international network dedicated to sustainable water management (SUDSnet), is a STEM ambassador, an Institution of Civil Engineers Superhero (Eco-crusader), a gender-equality champion, a landscape champion in SAGES and Scotland’s Landscape Alliance, a Fellow of the RSA, a Director at Dundee Science Centre and a Trustee of the Esk Rivers and Fisheries Trust. She has been selected to participate in the prestigious international Homeward Bound initiative, a year-long woman in STEM leadership programme culminating in a life-changing voyage to Antarctica, one of the most ecologically sensitive and inspiring areas on Earth.