Keri Facer is a Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol and previously a Zennström Professor in Climate Change and Leadership at Uppsala University . Her work focuses on the forms of knowledge and educational practices needed to create flourishing communities in conditions of disruptive technological and environmental change. She has a particular interest in informal learning in cities and communities and the role of the arts, myth and storytelling as powerful educational resources. From 2002-2008 she was Research Director for Futurelab, the UK’s R&D lab for education; from 2007-2009 she headed the UK Government’s Beyond Current Horizons Applied Foresight Initiative; from 2012-2018 she was Leadership Fellow for the Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities Programme, a 400M SEK investment in university-community collaborations.