Pleased to Meet You, Dr. Ursula Edgington Dr. Ursula Edgington has been described as an academic-in-exile—a British-born educationalist and researcher who climbed to the absolute peak of institutional learning, only to witness the corruption, surveillance, and corporate deception hidden behind university walls. After obtaining her PhD in educational psychology and exposing the chilling surveillance strategies applied to educators, she chose duty over compliance. She stood up, called out the rot, and consequently faced the full wrath of the toxic corporate playbook—enduring gaslighting, heavy blacklisting, and systemic lawfare that forced her out of her vocation. But instead of being silenced, her exile only sharpened her resolve. Operating from rural New Zealand, she has spent the last decade deconstructing the propaganda machinery, investigating massive acts of ecological vandalism like the aerial 1080 poisoning campaign, and exposing how globalists have captured our judicial and educational systems. From mentoring fellow dissidents and dissecting the fallout of covid-era mandates, to serving as the chair of a local non-profit music group, she actively fights back against technocracy by restoring authentic, face-to-face human community. She is a whistleblower who traded her institutional status for the unfiltered truth. Interview Outline & Timestamps: Further below, you can find Dr. Ursula Edgington’s own written answers to our standard ‘Getting to Know the Dissident Voices’ questionnaire. Combined with the video interview, you now have extensive insights into exactly who Ursula Edgington is and what her research represents. However, if you want the opportunity to ask her or our other guests a question yourself—perhaps even directly face-to-face—here is your chance: Upgrade to a paid subscription today. Dissident Crossfire On September 20th, Dr. Ursula Edgington joined our panel of featured guests for an exclusive, unscripted live debate: Dissident Crossfire. By upgrading to a paid subscription on our Substack today, you unlock full access to our premium, monthly Dissident Crossfire sessions, including live text chat during the broadcast and the right to submit your topics directly into the debate. If you join as a Founding Panel Member, you secure a permanent seat backstage with live speaking rights to challenge the panel face-to-face. Click the button below to sign up today. QUESTIONNAIRE: Getting to Know Dr. Ursula Edgington 🎬 Intro & Background * What is your name, where are you from, and where in the world are you currently based? I’m a British-born educationalist, who emigrated to New Zealand with my husband in 2013. For over ten years I’ve been an academic-in-exile, a blacklisted whistleblower, a part-time freelance adult tutor, an environmental activist, researcher and writer. I’m also a musician, domestic beekeeper and a dog-lover... * What is your professional background, and what occupies most of your time today? I’m from a working-class background so unsurprisingly, I left school as early as possible with no meaningful qualifications. Inevitably, I spent the next 15 years of my life moving from one location/job to another, hotels, sales, insurance, admin, merchandising etc, thinking ‘there must be something more to life than this?’… As a result of one of our relocations, I joined an evening class to ’make new friends’ where I caught the learning bug. I went on study p/t at the University of Warwick, obtain teaching quals (ESOL and PG)…then as tutor (‘sociology of health’) at a UK tertiary college I completed a Masters in Lifelong Education (Nottingham Uni). Later I won a scholarship to complete my PhD in educational psychology (Canterbury Christchurch), which focused on the potential harmful surveillance strategies applied to teachers in tertiary sectors (Edgington, 2016). As a lecturer in teacher-education programmes in universities in England and later in New Zealand, I published my research and presented at many international academic conferences. Ten years ago, I saw corruption, discrimination and poor-quality teaching and learning at my institution, so I felt a duty to call it out. As a result, I became a victim of what I now recognise as the toxic university’s Corporate Playbook (Smyth, 2017): I was ignored, gaslit, bullied, harassed and finally subjected to lawfare and forced out (with a gagging clause). I didn’t realise at that time how, in the small population of NZ, I would subsequently become blacklisted for any academic/teaching role. So since then, I’ve gradually come to terms with the loss of my professional identity, my vocation in teaching and my connections with students and colleagues. The double-whammy was when covid hit even my unpaid teaching and research roles, for instance as volunteer tutor in a local prison, were unfairly ended, because of the covid ‘vaccine’ mandates. In 2022 I completed a Masters in Legal Studies at the University of Auckland because I needed to better understand the capture of our judicial systems. Most of my time today is spent writing, researching and balancing the somewhat solitary moil of a dissident with rewarding jobs that enhance our self-sufficiency within nature. 🤐 Taboo of the Week * What is a mainstream media topic, or an overlooked story, that you believe we are not allowed to discuss honestly—and why does it deserve our focus today? New Zealand is a land of myths, some of which were ruptured thanks to globalist Jacinda Ardern. Today, many professionals, including teachers, nurses and other professionals who were mandated out of their vocations because of the covid vaccine mandates are still getting gaslit, excluded, ignored and blacklisted. Six years is a long time, and these are innocent people who donated their lives to caring for others, and whose skills are urgently needed in our communities right now. Their voices deserve to be heard and respected. Here’s a recent article about one case. 🧭 Becoming a Dissident * When and how did you transition into becoming an outspoken voice within the alternative media landscape? I wouldn’t say I am ‘in’ the alternative media landscape’ but I do try to contribute to it through various trusted channels. My original transition began when I arrived in New Zealand – because of my toxic experiences in the university I was working at, I was forced to come to terms with some of the harsh realities. Most New Zealanders are warm, generous kindly folk. But NZ culture suffers from extensive fraud, corruption, anti-intellectualism, nepotism, bullying and Tall Poppy Syndrome. * Was there a specific catalyst or an exact moment you realized you could no longer subscribe to the mainstream narrative? In 2014, I investigated the decades-old policy of aerial poisoning with 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate) throughout New Zealand’s landscape and waterways. Like many others, I recognised this catastrophic form of ‘pest control’ to be one of the longest and most significant acts of ecological vandalism in the world. It was hidden in plain sight behind one of the most expensive PR campaigns in the world: ‘Clean, Green, 100% Pure NZ’. I was naively convinced (as many of us have since also experienced) that if we just pointed out the facts from the science that policymakers would see the truth and the environmental harms would stop. Ha ha! I had no idea how powerful the BigChem Corporate Playbook is. I was Committee member in the PeoplesInquiry2020.nz which received multiple submissions of evidence of harm from decades of this poisoning. In 2019 after our local mountain, including our town’s drinking-water reservoir, was aerially poisoned for the seventh time in twenty years, I realised that much of the ‘safe and effective’ mainstream media narrative was - and is - a lie. (Here’s one of my articles about that environmental harm with links to info). * How did stepping outside the consensus impact your professional career and daily life? When I was still lecturing at a university, I assumed that at le… This is a public episode. 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