In this upcoming episode of the Dr Sustainability Podcast, Professor Calvin Jones delivers a reality check on the carbon impact of academic travel.
✈️ Professors fly twice as far as junior staff.
👨🦰 Men fly 80% more than women.
💡 Meanwhile, early-career academics, who need the exposure and networking, often can’t access funding to travel at all.
And who are the senior academics flying to speak to? Usually the same colleagues they’ve spoken to for the last 20 years.
This misallocation of travel not only drives up emissions — it also holds back fresh thinking and diversity of voice in academia.