My interests include social and climate justice, womenβs issues, and human rights. If you\’re keen on current affairs and social change, check out my profile! Follow me on Twitter and drop me some ideas/feedback via email.
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, womenβs 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.
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Latest Stories from Imogen
Factory farming is an atrocity our generation must solve
Most of the earthβs sentient being lives and die on a production line. Itβs time to think of a better way. In 2015, the now household name Yuval Noah Harari, historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, called industrial farming βone of the worst crimes in historyβ. Five years on, and though the number of people eating meat globally has declined in the west, the number...
Migrants struggle to send money home during COVID-19 crisis
The rate of global remittance is set to decline sharply thanks to the harsh COVID economy. This could have dire consequences for the worldβs poorest communities. Looking at the worldwide coronavirus statistics, itβs easy to see the virus as a western issue. Deaths and rates of infection are, if the stats are to be believed, overwhelmingly higher in western nations. Whilst the UK stands at...
Conservation and COVID-19: how the virus could spell trouble for endangered species
As the ecotourism industry shuts down and protection projects grind to a halt, years of conservation work in the worldβs most precarious environments could be undone. Conservationists the world over are warning that coronavirus could have dire consequences for the worldβs endangered species and habitats. This has left many asking whether relying on tourist dollars for conservation projects is a stable economic model. In Africa, restrictions on international travel have...
βA peopleβs vaccineβ β 140+ global leaders call for virus vaccine to be free
Global leaders pre-empt efforts of the wealthiest corporations and governments to privatise the eventual coronavirus vaccine.
Over 140 global leaders and experts issued an open letter on Thursday this week urging all world powers to unilaterally guarantee that, once scientists discover a cure for the COVID-19 virus, it will be freely available to all global citizens equally and without national bias.
Entitled βUniting Behind a Peopleβs Vaccine Against COVID-19β,
COVID-19 will transform the workplace Gen Z is entering
As humanity comes to redefine its social structures in the wake of a global shakeup, the concept of a 9-5 adulthood might be blinking out of existence. Throughout history there have been pockets of time where people have unwittingly become part of a social experiment. In ancient Sparta, society asked what would happen if every person was trained in the art of battle from birth. The Indus civilisation asked...
Quality of life indicators more important than GDP, says UK poll
Economic indicators have fallen out of step with our lived values, and according to a recent poll the UK has noticed. This week the UKβs latest GDP figures will be published, covering the period from January to the end of March. GDP is calculated by taking the sum total of a nationβs spending, investment, and trade balance (imports minus exports) then representing this as a single number. Essentially, it shows...
Plant-based meat soars in popularity during lockdown
COVID-19 is giving consumers the time and headspace to become more socially conscious. Recently I wrote on the atrocities of factory farming. Writing the article was, if Iβm honest, an existential nightmare that painted a bleak picture of the deep hole weβve gotten ourselves into with our insatiable appetite for meat. I came to the same conclusion that many others had come to before me: whilst...
Malaria cure possible with new microbe
Scientists in Kenya have discovered a microbe they say can prevent mosquitoes from spreading malaria. Malaria is currently one of the leading causes of mortality in the world. More than 400,000 people are killed by the disease each year, and most of these victims are children under the age of five in emerging African nations. Likely because of its containment to non-western states, progress in...
The lazy personβs guide to sustainability
The UN has just published the mother of all helpful guides β how to save the world when you donβt have time to go βfull activistβ. Here at Thred weβre pretty keen on consistently giving you easy to implement advice on how to reduce your carbon footprint. From how to get involved in activist programs to which footwear brands are most sustainable,...
World leaders pledge β¬7.4 billion to fight COVID-19
World leaders, companies, and international NGOs pledged β¬7.4 billion to develop new tools to detect, treat, and prevent the coronavirus during a fundraiser held earlier this week. Hereβs something you donβt see every day: world leaders calling in from their homes and offices for a televised videoconferencing summit hosted by the EU and adjacent states where billions of euros are pledged to a common cause. The worldβs experiment with...
