Dr. Becca Brunk
@rebrunksel.bsky.social
Early career researcher. University of Leeds. Interested in environmental and community psychology, emotions, and sustainable urban futures. Queer feminist, hiker, sci-fi nerd. Michigander in the UK.
Reposted by Dr. Becca Brunk
Here's how you can get involved ⬇️
☑️Register for free, 30-min online active bystander training open to everyone.
🌳Book tailored in-person or remote sessions for teams of park staff, built environment and safety professionals by emailing [email protected] (for groups of 70+)
☑️Register for free, 30-min online active bystander training open to everyone.
🌳Book tailored in-person or remote sessions for teams of park staff, built environment and safety professionals by emailing [email protected] (for groups of 70+)
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Here's how you can get involved ⬇️
☑️Register for free, 30-min online active bystander training open to everyone.
🌳Book tailored in-person or remote sessions for teams of park staff, built environment and safety professionals by emailing [email protected] (for groups of 70+)
☑️Register for free, 30-min online active bystander training open to everyone.
🌳Book tailored in-person or remote sessions for teams of park staff, built environment and safety professionals by emailing [email protected] (for groups of 70+)
For folks who work in park design and management, some wonderful guidance on how to ensure they’re as safe as possible for women and girls.
#SaferParks
#SaferParks
🌳 Do you know what makes a park feel safe, welcoming and inclusive?
For the #SaferParks campaign, we are spotlighting parks guidance explains why features such as lighting, layout, accessibility, location and the presence of authority figures are key to ensuring everyone enjoys our green spaces.
For the #SaferParks campaign, we are spotlighting parks guidance explains why features such as lighting, layout, accessibility, location and the presence of authority figures are key to ensuring everyone enjoys our green spaces.
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
For folks who work in park design and management, some wonderful guidance on how to ensure they’re as safe as possible for women and girls.
#SaferParks
#SaferParks
I highly recommend this training for anyone interested in making their local parks and green spaces safer for women and girls!
The training is fabulous and evidence-backed! We found it reduced barriers to intervention and improved confidence in specific intervention skills.
The training is fabulous and evidence-backed! We found it reduced barriers to intervention and improved confidence in specific intervention skills.
We're excited to launch a major #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign in partnership with @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social #GreenFlagAward to build a community of active bystanders and make our parks safer, more inclusive spaces for all
September 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I highly recommend this training for anyone interested in making their local parks and green spaces safer for women and girls!
The training is fabulous and evidence-backed! We found it reduced barriers to intervention and improved confidence in specific intervention skills.
The training is fabulous and evidence-backed! We found it reduced barriers to intervention and improved confidence in specific intervention skills.
Wore this bleach-painted T-shirt around London last week, created by the talented @aroomwithaviewart.bsky.social.
I asked for the phrase, “the future is queer” because a sustainable, dynamic future grounded in queer ecology is what I sincerely hope we eventually find our way to. Happy Pride 🏳️🌈💕
I asked for the phrase, “the future is queer” because a sustainable, dynamic future grounded in queer ecology is what I sincerely hope we eventually find our way to. Happy Pride 🏳️🌈💕
June 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Wore this bleach-painted T-shirt around London last week, created by the talented @aroomwithaviewart.bsky.social.
I asked for the phrase, “the future is queer” because a sustainable, dynamic future grounded in queer ecology is what I sincerely hope we eventually find our way to. Happy Pride 🏳️🌈💕
I asked for the phrase, “the future is queer” because a sustainable, dynamic future grounded in queer ecology is what I sincerely hope we eventually find our way to. Happy Pride 🏳️🌈💕
I am ecstatic to be able to share the publication of my first paper from my thesis with everyone!
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I am ecstatic to be able to share the publication of my first paper from my thesis with everyone!
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Also I am incredibly pleased that our work with @hydeparksource.bsky.social and @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social on community use of public land for climate resilience received this excellent spotlight article!
Leeds researchers have teamed up with @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social to turn a disused plot of land into a thriving community garden.
Helped by @policyleeds.bsky.social, the space has been transformed with fruit trees, vegetables and a herb garden for local residents to enjoy 🌱
bit.ly/44ihXSn
Helped by @policyleeds.bsky.social, the space has been transformed with fruit trees, vegetables and a herb garden for local residents to enjoy 🌱
bit.ly/44ihXSn
May 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Also I am incredibly pleased that our work with @hydeparksource.bsky.social and @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social on community use of public land for climate resilience received this excellent spotlight article!
I’m proud to have contributed to this call for evidence with @annabarker.bsky.social and her wonderful colleagues on how green spaces can be made safer and more accessible for women and girls. We all deserve to be able to connect with nature without risking our physical and emotional safety.
Dr @annabarker.bsky.social has submitted vital evidence to the Violence Against Women and Girls #VAWG inquiry. She focuses on how to make #parks safe and welcoming.
Read more about her important work 👇
tinyurl.com/mpmh49pz
#LawSky #Academicsky #Parliament #Government @ccjsleeds.bsky.social
Read more about her important work 👇
tinyurl.com/mpmh49pz
#LawSky #Academicsky #Parliament #Government @ccjsleeds.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I’m proud to have contributed to this call for evidence with @annabarker.bsky.social and her wonderful colleagues on how green spaces can be made safer and more accessible for women and girls. We all deserve to be able to connect with nature without risking our physical and emotional safety.
Reposted by Dr. Becca Brunk
A lovely post highlighting the impact even a small island can have on the UK's biodiversity - exactly why the Climate and Nature Bill needs to pass through parliament, so we can bring back Britain's lost biodiversity!
Although it makes up only 0.4% of the UK’s land area, Orkney is home to a huge proportion of some of our most vulnerable species, including Hen Harriers.
But Stoats are putting Orkney's native wildlife at risk.
Donate to help protect it: www.rspb.org.uk/donate/orkne...
📷 Andy Hay
But Stoats are putting Orkney's native wildlife at risk.
Donate to help protect it: www.rspb.org.uk/donate/orkne...
📷 Andy Hay
April 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A lovely post highlighting the impact even a small island can have on the UK's biodiversity - exactly why the Climate and Nature Bill needs to pass through parliament, so we can bring back Britain's lost biodiversity!
Neat opportunity alert 🚨
🐺 Can you hear the call of the wild?
🌍 Share your stories of nature’s powerful resurgence by September 30, 2025, and take part in The Ecological Citizen's first flash fiction collection!
#FeralLines #EcoFiction #RewildingStories
ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
🌍 Share your stories of nature’s powerful resurgence by September 30, 2025, and take part in The Ecological Citizen's first flash fiction collection!
#FeralLines #EcoFiction #RewildingStories
ecologicalcitizen.net/call-for-fla...
March 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Neat opportunity alert 🚨
Just took the ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam to avoid flying on holiday and let me tell you - it was amazing! It was romantic! It was delicious! I am obsessed. Bring back slow travel.
#ferry #slowtravel #sustainabletravel
#ferry #slowtravel #sustainabletravel
March 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Just took the ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam to avoid flying on holiday and let me tell you - it was amazing! It was romantic! It was delicious! I am obsessed. Bring back slow travel.
#ferry #slowtravel #sustainabletravel
#ferry #slowtravel #sustainabletravel
This is neat, and makes a great point about the value of #communities and #placebasedresearch in #decarbonising our work to take better care of our planet.
A university’s place should be in their city and local communities.
A university’s place should be in their city and local communities.
February 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is neat, and makes a great point about the value of #communities and #placebasedresearch in #decarbonising our work to take better care of our planet.
A university’s place should be in their city and local communities.
A university’s place should be in their city and local communities.
Thanks for the lovely shoutout @envleeds.bsky.social! PIP is a really interesting programme to work on, and I appreciate the opportunity to centre grassroots knowledge, and environmental justice and community organising in my work for a just sustainable transition of Leeds. 🌳🏙
Positive Impact Partners nurtures community, civic and university partnerships to build a shared vision of a sustainable Leeds.
It supports knowledge sharing, youth education, and collaboration with the region's communities, third sector, councils and more.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
It supports knowledge sharing, youth education, and collaboration with the region's communities, third sector, councils and more.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Sustainability Service explores the possibilities of partnerships
The Positive Impact Partners programme nurtures community, civic and university partnerships – creating and building a shared vision of the net-zero city.
environment.leeds.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Thanks for the lovely shoutout @envleeds.bsky.social! PIP is a really interesting programme to work on, and I appreciate the opportunity to centre grassroots knowledge, and environmental justice and community organising in my work for a just sustainable transition of Leeds. 🌳🏙
I’ve been interested in #solarpunk for a little while now and was curious what has been written about it academically! This has been a great read, anyone have any follow up suggestions for me? Any other solar punk nerds out there using this in their #utopia research?
doi.org/10.3390/phil...
doi.org/10.3390/phil...
A Solarpunk Manifesto: Turning Imaginary into Reality
In the last century, science fiction has become an incredibly powerful tool in depicting alternative social imaginaries, particularly those of the future. Extending beyond their fictious nature is a c...
doi.org
February 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I’ve been interested in #solarpunk for a little while now and was curious what has been written about it academically! This has been a great read, anyone have any follow up suggestions for me? Any other solar punk nerds out there using this in their #utopia research?
doi.org/10.3390/phil...
doi.org/10.3390/phil...
Listening to @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s ‘Doppleganger’ discussion of perfection and purity in the far right makes me feel like we are in the ‘humanity becomes the Borg’ timeline rather than the ‘humanity becomes the federation’ timeline. 🙃
January 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Listening to @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s ‘Doppleganger’ discussion of perfection and purity in the far right makes me feel like we are in the ‘humanity becomes the Borg’ timeline rather than the ‘humanity becomes the federation’ timeline. 🙃
Reposted by Dr. Becca Brunk
I’m increasingly convinced that the love that powers long term climate action grows out of all the time we spend doing the things we love, in the places we love, with the people we love.
Without that, what are we fighting for?
Without that, what are we fighting for?
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 18, 2024 at 2:10 AM
I’m increasingly convinced that the love that powers long term climate action grows out of all the time we spend doing the things we love, in the places we love, with the people we love.
Without that, what are we fighting for?
Without that, what are we fighting for?
