Claudia Gillberg
, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate with the Lifelong Learning Research Group at HLK, Jönköping University. She is currently employed as research lead by Värnamo municipality, Sweden, for a three-year critical action learning project for professional preschool educators in Sweden.
She draws on a Whole Systems Approach (WSA) to effect transformative change towards social and ecological sustainability, resulting in meaningful knowledge sharing, in-depth knowledge building about climate change, and all aspects of sustainable development towards Climate Action Competence (CAP).
With a background in lifelong learning, organisational development and critical disability studies, Gillberg has facilitated sustainable change in formal and informal education, the Ukrainian Institute in London, the Australian Trade Commission in Frankfurt, Routledge Publishers London, and the Centre for Welfare Reform, UK.
In recent years, she has been committed to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to raise awareness among social scientists for the need to learn more about climate science and ecological sustainability.
Claudia.gillberg@edu.varnamo.se