Nicholas Beuret is an activist scholar and has been engaged with questions of justice, labour rights, ecological politics and political economy for thirty years. He works as a lecturer at the University of Essex where he teaches environmental and economic politics.
He is an active UCU member and has been involved in strike action at his workplace for the last eight years and previously was a Unite rank and file organiser. His writing has been featured in the Guardian, The Ecologist, Open Democracy, Novara Media and Undercurrents.
His first book Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition is out in September 2025 with Verso.
Before completing his PhD at University of Leicester, Nicholas was a campaigner for Friends of the Earth and co-founded the This Is Not Art Festival in Newcastle (Australia) in 1997 to support local emerging and experimental artists.
He is a member of The Institute for Commons, the Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience (COVER), and The Breakdown Institute.
