Jane Rumble is the Head of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s Polar Regions Department. She is a senior civil servant who supports the British government in policy and decision-making for both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Jane is a geographer by background and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. During 2018 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Leeds and an OBE for services to Polar science, marine conservation, and diplomacy.
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Discovering Antarctica
The world's last great wilderness
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Exploring Shackleton’s Antarctica
The aim of the module is to develop an enquiry on the Polar region of Antarctica focusing on Shackleton’s 1914–17 Endurance Expedition
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Discovering the Weddell Sea - Education for Antarctic Conservation
Teaching resources for our Education for Antarctic Conservation Project
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Discovering the Arctic
A guided tour across the top of the world
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Climate change and the Russian Arctic
Activities focused on Climate change and the Russian Arctic developed with University of Birmingham and WWF
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The Arctic: Heatwaves and habitat destruction
Scientists agree the effects of climate change will be felt faster and more acutely in the Arctic