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Hi, I’m Imogen, and I’m the Editor in Chief at Thred. I moved to the UK from Australia to study English at the University of Oxford in 2015.
Since graduating, I’ve lived in London where I’m informally studying ethics and learning French as side projects to my main gig as Editor in Chief at Thred. My specialist subjects include social and climate justice, women’s issues, and human rights.
I can usually be found furiously tapping away at my keyboard as I rant in liberal. In the office I regularly take on the role of mum, making pita bread and hot chocolates for my team. Although when it comes to using technology, my status is quickly downgraded to grandma. Despite the grandiose efforts of my team, I have yet to master Photoshop.
Latest Stories from Imogen
Gen Z in developing nations may never recover from this gap in schooling
COVID-19 has stolen an education from the world’s poorest, as many will never get the chance to return to school. As Western nations debate the best way to re-open schools in a safe and sensible manner, Gen Z students in developing nations have faced an education interruption they’ll likely never recover from. In April, some 90% of school children across the world were plucked from their classrooms and sent home, where...
New research finds 24 ‘super-habitable’ alien worlds
Rather than searching the night sky for Earth’s literal carbon copy, scientists have found a new criterion for habitability that’s thrown up some astonishing results. ‘A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever’. Tsiolkovsky’s famous antique quote about curing humanity’s ‘failure to launch’ from its earthly dwelling has been picking up steam in the past few decades, with independent space agencies like...
Exclusive report – Illegal air pollution in Texas rises 155% in 5 years
According to a recent report, unauthorised emissions from industrial facilities in Texas have tripled since 2015 as the EPA continues to roll back protective measures. At the beginning of the week, Thred Media and Global Citizen were given early access to a report sounding the alarm on rising rates of illegal industrial pollution in the state of Texas. According to the study conducted by Environment Texas and Frontier Group,...
Gen Z are hoping to topple the Thai regime with Tinder
The dating app has become the latest battleground in the efforts of pro-democracy protestors in Thailand. Demonstrators in Thailand, who have taken to the streets over the past few months in their hundreds of thousands to oppose their military government and the royal family, have recently added Tinder to the list of weapons they’re using to propagate a pro-democracy message. Whilst regimes prone to censorship have long been cognisant...
The Sustainable Development Goals tell an inaccurate story of global progress
Global development metrics are overwhelmingly biased towards rich, developed nations. One of the UN’s most successful and universally recognised projects to date has been the formation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recognising the need for agreement among member states about what constitutes ‘success’ in international projects – how to achieve the greatest quality of life for the most people – 191 national delegates sat down in 2000, and...
Plastic pollution is a fight we can win if we act now
We waited too long to stop CO2 from taking over our atmosphere, and now we’re in danger of waiting too long to turn off the plastic tap. A billion more tons of plastic are set to blanket the earth by 2040. In the next two decades alone, 710 million tons will enter our waterways and cover our land based only on what we’ve already thrown away. Plastic takes over...
Air pollution will kill more people this year than coronavirus
The World Health organisation stand firm on their stance that air pollution is the greatest environmental risk to health today. As the world suffers through a respiratory pandemic, the need to breathe clean air has never been more apparent. But, with the World Health Organisation estimating that 9 out of every 10 of us live in zones where the air exceeds guideline limits of pollutants, breathable air is becoming...
The new Oscars diversity rules: momentous or tokenistic?
The latest gambit from the Academy to up its woke credentials looks great on paper, but is vague in all the wrong places. This week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a new set of ‘representation and inclusion’ standards in the hope of diversifying the Oscars. The film industry’s biggest awards ceremony is now asking studios to meet a set of minority inclusion standards to be...
The Amazon rainforest is burning once again
President Bolsonaro continues his legacy as the world’s worst environmental terrorist. In a terrifying yet inevitable repeat of history, there are currently just shy of 30,000 individual fires burning in the Amazon as of late August. Though Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a 120-day ban on planned fires in mid-July, the government has been lacklustre in enforcing the legislation. Satellite images now paint an eerily reminiscent picture of 2019’s...
Meet Jahkini Bisselink, the loudest Gen Z voice at the UN
This week we’re feeling especially grateful for the voice of young representative and activist Jahkini Bisselink, who’s making sure Gen Z gets a say in what matters most. ‘More than half of the world’s population is under 30’, says then 18-year-old Jahkini Bisselink to a delegation of UN state leaders. ‘So I believe it to be a moral obligation to involve youth in decision making processes.’ Said matter-of-factly in her...
