Over the past 6 years I have worked extensively with Learning for Sustainability Scotland, British Council and University of Edinburgh, as well as a number of private and third sector clients, developing and delivering online learning courses focussed on sustainability and social responsibility. 

Coming from a background as a primary teacher, I have worked with learners of all ages in a variety of formal and informal learning environments, both in person and online.

Testimonials

Read what some of my previous clients and course participants have said about working with me.

Betsy King

Development Manager - Learning for Sustainability Scotland

Mary is a highly creative and skilled facilitator, educator, online course developer and researcher, and is always a pleasure to work with. Learning for Sustainability Scotland is fortunate to have been collaborating with Juniper Tree Learning since 2016 on the development, design and facilitation of numerous highly regarded online and face to face courses for students and educators in schools, colleges and universities. She is great to work with: open, responsive, professional, thoughtful and thorough. As well as having a deep understanding of the values, skills, content and effective learning and teaching approaches for sustainability her technical design approaches are always exceptionally creative, with exceptional results.

Duncan Wallace

Director - PlacesWork

Juniper Tree Learning provides an amazing service that enables you to bring your learning products to life. As the founder of PlacesWorkLTd I worked with her throughout 2022 she has added depth, creativity, reliability, challenge and fun to every project and product we have worked together on. These have included; conferences, worldwide LMS courses, accreditation, IP audits, live training courses, film making, and client liaison. She makes sure our work is properly sustainable in every sense of the word. Everyone has said how she is an exceptional professional, do not miss the opportunity to work with her.

Course participant

anonymous

I think your course content is incredibly well designed. Congratulations to all involved. I also think your video introductions are excellent, well done!

Course participant

Anonymous

I have thoroughly enjoyed and found it very insightful for my own professional development and practice. The learner log was hugely valuable for my own self evaluation and reflection. I also really enjoyed being able to read comments, ideas and experiences of other via the activities during each phase.

Course Participant

Anonymous

Thank you for your email and all the other support you have provided. I have enjoyed every bit of the course so far and have definitely benefitted in terms of knowledge gained, shared experiences, valuable new views of the world and inspiration to use what I have learned at work and beyond!

Previous clients include...

Learning for Sustainability Scotland
Placeswork

Research Outputs

My research interests include approaches to teaching and learning for climate justice, integrating a diversity of ways of knowing into our understandings of sustainability and supporting teachers in translating LfS policy into practice.

Collacott, M., & Leask, K., (2022) Making Connections through Learning for Sustainability (LfS): supporting critically reflexive engagement with embedding LfS in professional practice. Presented at Teacher Education: Transforming Learning for a Just and Sustainable World, Teacher Education for Equity and Sustainability Network’s (TEESNet) 13th Annual Conference

Stones, T., Collacott, M., & Christie, B. (2022) Developing a whole campus approach to learning for sustainability: Challenges and opportunities for embedding and sustaining change. Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning in collaboration with the Development Education Research Centre, UCL Institute of Education: London, UK. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147510 

Christie, E., Higgins, P., King, B., Collacott, M., Kirk, K., & Smith, H. (2019). From rhetoric to reality: Examining the policy vision and the professional process of enacting Learning for Sustainability in Scottish schools. Scottish Educational Review, 51(1), 44-56. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/from-rhetoric-to-reality-examining-the-policy-vision-and-the-prof 

Christie, B., McGregor, C. and Collacott, M. (2018) Climate Justice Education: From schooling to social movement learning and back? Presented at Glasgow Caledonian University’s Climate Justice Education Knowledge Exchange Event