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Tim Webb grew up working on farms before embarking on a career in journalism. Two decades later he changed direction to work in conservation. His work has contributed to the management of rail and road side management in London and around the M25. He has been involved in: species reintroductions on heathland, coastal and estuary realignment projects, and project managed a study on the decline of the urban house sparrow. Tim is a founder Trustee of the National Park City Foundation, the charity behind London being declared the world’s first National Park City. He is a board member of London Gardens Trust, and both campaigns and champions the adoption of green infrastructure and sustainable development in urban environments. Areas of interest include connecting people with nature, urban farming and improving access to public spaces.
Samantha Davenport is a Green Infrastructure Senior Policy and Programe Officer with the Greater London Authority. With a MSc from Imperial College London in Environmental Technology, Samantha was previosuly with Natural England.
Ambra Burls is an ecotherapist, eco-coach and ecohealth pactitioner based in North Wales, helping people and nature to heal and help each other.
Peter Shirley is an independent conservationist having worked extensively with the Wildlife Trusts and others before turning freelance.
Abigail Garbett is a course coordinator at the University of Upsala. She has a multi-disciplinary Master’s Degree in Creative Sustainability from Aalto University where she specialised in urban design. Her research combines systems thinking, regenerative design and psychology in order to understand how urban areas can become healthy habitats for humans and ecosystems. During her thesis research she has collaborated closely with ‘I Ur och Skur’ (all weather) outdoor schools in Stockholm and analysed the nature connecting qualities of the urban greenspaces observed. She is currently compiling a handbook of nature-connecting activities for educators with the NGO Miljöverkstan. Abigail’s interests lie in human-nature connection, spatial design and equitable access to nature.
Dr Joanne Tippett is a lecturer in Spatial Planning in the School of Environment and Developmentat the University of Manchester. Her ESRC funded research into participatory river basin planning led to the development of a hands-on toolkit for engagement, Ketso, now in use in over 65 countries. She is currently leading on innovative community engagement in the Carbon Landscape, which is restoring and connecting habitats across the post-industrial landscape in Greater Manchester. This has led to further work interpreting the heritage of a landscape through the lens of sustainability in a former cotton mill, Quarry Bank (National Trust).
Danielle is a PhD candidate and interdisciplinary researcher in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University, Belfast. Her interests lie in the nexus of health, built environment, ecology and environmental psychology. Her PhD topic explores role of urban nature in Ageing-in-Place frameworks. Wider interests include nature-engagement, nature conservation, and place-based behavioural health and planetary health frameworks. She has experience in conducting research in the global south, India and is currently collaborating on research looking at role of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge (TEK) in ecological restoration.
John Little, is the founder of the Grass Roof Company, working to use plants and soils to make better places to live. I am a plant lover. I have introduced wild landscapes into schools, public spaces and onto roofs and produced a self-build turf roof house. The Grass Roof Company seeks to install habitat onto everyday infrastructures, and provides grounds maintenance for social housing with the potential of dictating substrates in public planting to provide plant diversity and breeding spacefor inverts. The Grass Roof Company has published a book: Small Green Roofs, available from retailers.
Awards:
The Grass Roof Company – Green Roof Shelters – Green Roof Training
Dave Barlow has worked for Manchester City Council for over thirty five years, specialising in environmental management, urban ecology and nature conservation, and is is a member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. Through extensive consultation and partnership working, Dave has helped shape many of the City’s key environmental strategies as well as delivering a range of high profile practical projects on the ground. He currently holds a strategic role within the Council’s City Policy Team, and leads on all aspects of Green Infrastructureand Biodiversity.
Niall Williams started his career working in practical conservation and forestry before moving into landscape architecture and urban design. He currently is a director of ND Landscape Architects Ltd,a Trustee of the Landscape Institute and their Delegate to the World and European Councils of the International Federation of Landscape Architects. Niall was also a professional advisor, now director of the Tree Charter, a cross sector project bringing together over 80 organisations and engaging an estimated 70million people, now being used to advise councillors and cities on urban tree planting and policy. Niall’s interests lay in Urban Forestry, Agro-forestry, landscape-led development and connecting people to nature.
Phil Wheater is Emeritus Professor in Environmental and Geographical Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has expertise and interest in several aspects of urban ecology, includingin restoration ecology. Recently he has been working on the ecology, monitoring and management of public open spaces for both biodiversity and human health and well-being. is Emeritus Professor in Environmental and Geographical Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has expertise and interest in several aspects of urban ecology, includingin restoration ecology. Recently he has been working on the ecology, monitoring and management of public open spaces for both biodiversity and human health and well-being.
Dr Vincent Walsh is an award-winning senior food-tech specialist. Vincent investigates the integration of biological and technological urban infrastructures to support urban circularity and adaptability, transforming linear systems of consumption and waste to a sustainable and regenerative circular model. He has expertise in integrating vermiculture, myco-remediation, agroforestry, aquaponics, hydroponics and aeroponics systems.
Dr Danielle Sinnett is an environmental scientist with expertise in green infrastructure and land regeneration. She is anassociate professor in the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environmentsat the University of the West of England. Her research has focussed on the delivery of green infrastructure on urban areas, including as a mechanism to regenerate brownfield and contaminated land, and the benefits of green infrastructure.
Richard Scott is Director of the National Wildflower Centre at the Eden Project, and delivers creative conservation project work nationally. Richard is specialist in creative conservation/ ecological project work, focused around wildflower species; particularly linking people and communities in this process. Richard worked for the environmental charity Landlife for 26 years developing creative conservation philosophy, and delivery in both urban and rural landscapes, giving advice across the UK and worldwide. Richard is currently the Chair of the UK Urban Ecology Forum.
Alan Scott, BSc MSc CEnv MCIEEM. Alan has a BSc in Zoology, an MSc in Ecology and hasbeen a professional ecologist since the 1980s. He specialises in practical habitat management and management planning for nature reserves and wildlife sites and has worked in the statutory, local authority, voluntary and private sectors. He worked in North Wales, Scotland, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire before moving to London in 1990. He wasthe Nature Conservation Officer for Islington Council for five years and then worked for Groundwork Hackney. Since 1997 he has run his own business (Complete Ecology Ltd) which carries out specialist practical nature conservation management on site throughout London. In a voluntary capacity he has been on various London Wildlife Trust committees, was the Chair of the Urban Wildlife Partnership and a Green Flag Award Assessor.
Dr Elizabeth Rollinson, Executive Secretary of The Linnean Society of London, representing the Society which embraces the entire sweep of the natural world, encompassing science, history and art. As the world’s oldest active biological society, the Linnean Society is an essential forum and meeting point for those interested in the natural world. The Society holds regular public lectures andevents, publishes three peer-reviewed journals, and promotes the study of the natural world with several educational initiatives. The Society is home to a world famous library and collection of natural history specimens. The Society’s Fellows have a considerable range of biological expertise that can be harnessed to inform and advise on scientific and public policy issues.
Terry Robinson, Retired. Was Head of People, Engagement, Outreach and Access at Natural England. When Director for Sustainable Communities for the Countryside Agency promoted to government the value of a high quality green environment in urban locations. Also served as Head of Protected Areas for Countryside Agency, responsible for National Parks and AoNBs throughout England and led national programmes for England on landscape character and developed strategy for local identity.
Joe Ravetz is Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Resilience at the University of Manchester. He works on sustainable cities and regions, and has developed the Synergistics method for mapping anddesigning the collective urban intelligence. His main publications include the ‘City-Region 2020’, ‘Environment and City’, and the forthcoming ‘Deeper City: collective intelligence and the pathways from smart to wise’ (Routledge). He produced “The future of the urban environment andecosystem services in the UK” 2016 report for the Government Office of Science.
Julie Procter. Chief Executive of greenspace scotland. With over 25 years experience in the environmental sector, Julie has a strong track record in developing and leading cross-sectoral partnership projects which inform and influence policy and practice. She has contributed to a wide range of policy and research working groups, including Good Places, Better Health; Climate Resilient Parks, greenspace quality, health outcomes frameworks and our growing community. She led the development of the world’s first national greenspace map in 2011 and subsequently project managed the Scottish partnership working with Ordnance Survey to develop OS Greenspace. She has recently worked with NHS Lothian to develop the first health board led Greenspace and Health Strategy. Her current work focuses on pioneering new approaches to managing and resourcing greenspace, this includes ParkPower – developing opportunities for green energy services from parks and greenspaces. Julie is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Fellow of the RSA, Member of the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations and Institute of Fundraising. She is also a Director of The Parks Alliance and a Resilience Mentor with the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Paul Nolan, OBE. Paul is a member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters and Chair of the National Community Forest Partnership.His role as Mersey Forest Project Director involves managing the multidisciplinary team, developing and delivering the partnership business plan and budget, and working within a wide-ranging partnership to deliver the Government approved Mersey Forest Plan. Current major projectsinclude Northern Forest, Natural Health Service, Urban GreenUP and innovative funding opportunities for woodland and greenspaces.
Dr. Kerry Morrison. Independent Socio-Environmental Artist merging art with ecology to create engaging interventions in the landscape resulting in new, shared experiences and unfolding narratives of urban nature: human and non-human. Commissioned nationally and internationally.
Alison Millward, BSc (Hons) PhD MCIEEM FRSA is the principal of Alison Millward AssociatesLtd an environmental consultancy specialising in the strategic development of the environment sector in the UK, evaluation, audience development and public engagement. In the heritage sector she has mentored more than 60 natural landscape, park restoration, nature conservation and urban green space projects. Alison has been a national board member of a variety of environmental non-governmental organisations including Groundwork and the Wildlife Trusts and has chaired the UK Urban Forum and Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust.
Sarah Lindley is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester. She researches human-environment interactions and the influence of the urban environment on human health and wellbeing. Her research is collaborative and multi-disciplinary with a strong geographical information science dimension. She has continuing interests in air pollution, environmental risk andclimate change adaptation, with particular expertise related to urban heat and the regulating ecosystem functions of urban green infrastructure. Her research covers Europe, Africa and Asia. Shehas worked as a UK government expert and was a lead author on the Inter-governmental Platform for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Africa Regional Assessment. Google scholar.
Nigel Lawson, Honorary Fellow University of Manchester. Nigel worked in the textile and distribution industries and subsequently as a researcher into brownfield land remediation, flood risk management and adaptation to climate change in urban environments. He is able to combine his practical experience of industry and business with academic research. He is the Treasurer of the UK Urban Ecology Forum.
Professor Philip James, Professor of Ecology, University of Salford. Member of Defra’s Urban Pioneer programme, Member of the Natural Capital Group (Greater Manchester’s Local Nature Partnership giving a strategic lead on nature in the city). Author of Biology of the Urban Environment (2018) Oxford University Press Expertise: Ecology IN and OF the city, the natural environment and human health.
Jane Houghton, Natural England.Project Manager for the development of a new National Green Infrastructure Standards Framework, which is a commitment in the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan to green our towns and cities to deliver multiple benefits for health and wellbeing, climate resilience and prosperity. Experience of advising on and managing green infrastructure in central and local government. Qualifications: BA Hons Natural Sciences, Diploma in Ecology and Conservation, Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies (Leisure), City and Guilds in Horticulture and Countryside Conservation.
Professor Emeritus John Handley, OBE, Ph D. John Handley started out as a restoration ecologist. He has worked in practice as a senior Planner and as founding director of an NGO, The Groundwork Trust which developed into the international Groundwork network for community engagement in environmental regeneration. At the University of Manchester he jointly founded the Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology. His current work focuses on the role of green infrastructurein moderating the impacts of climate change on urban areas and in improving quality of life for an ageing population. He is also actively engaged in local planning at the Neighbourhood scale. John Handley is a member of the UNEP Global 500 for services to the environment.
David Haley, PhD HonFCIWEM. Visiting Professor at Zhongyuan University of Technology and Vice Chair of the CIWEM Art & Environment Network. David publishes, exhibits and works internationally with ecosystems and their inhabitants, using images, poetic texts, walking and sculptural installations to generate dialogues that question climate change, species extinction and urban development for ‘capable futures’.
Nick Grayson. Nick is Climate Change and Sustainability Manager for Birmingham City Council, with a current lead on green infrastructure and natural capital; where he has devised the draft ‘Naturally Birmingham’ UK local authority governance model which seeks to put nature at the heart of all decision-making, providing the framework for a 25 Year Environment Plan and the Future Operating Model for all public parks. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham commencing a 5 year study inJanuary 2019 as Principal Investigator on “WM-Air” – on the benefits from green infrastructure to urban air quality across the West Midlands.
Professor David Goode Ph.D, FCIEEM, CEnv., FRSA. David is an award winning ecologist and author who had a central role dealing with environmental issues in London for many years as Director of the London Ecology Unit, and Head of Environment at the Greater London Authority. He has an international reputation for his work on urban ecology and sustainability. An Honorary Professor at University College London, he wrote Nature in Towns and Cities (Collins, 2014), is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, and is a regular contributor to The Nature of Cities website. He is a Member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, specialising in biodiversity of the urban environment, and is a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.
Peter Frost is Natural Resources Wales’ Senior Urban Advisor. His work is to find ways to ensure there are enough green spaces of the right kinds in the right places to make Wales’ towns and cities better places for people and nature. He introduced the Accessible Natural Greenspace Standards to Wales and was responsible for the development of the toolkit used to assess those standards. He represents NRW on the Welsh Government’s Pollinators Task Force and founded and manages the Wales Green Infrastructure Forum. He has been a Green Flag Award judge since 2007. He served as the representative for Wales on the UNESCO UK Man and the Biosphere Committee.
Dr Paul Evans FEA, is a writer, broadcaster and conservationist best known for his writing for the Guardian’s Country Diary, his books How To See Nature (2017) Field Notes from the Edge (2015) Herbaceous (2014), radio documentaries and dramas for BBC Radio 4. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University; he has a PhD in philosophy and a career background in the British nature conservation movement and horticulture. His work advocates for Nature, bringing overlooked wildlife into focus as a way of revealing how it matters in a time of crisis and celebrating a dark wonder for a hidden and vulnerable world.
Emeritus Professor Ian Douglas. Professor of Geography, University of New England, Australia, 1971-78, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Manchester, UK, 1979-97. Author of “The Urban Environment” (1983); Cities and Environmental History (2013); (with Philip James) “Urban Ecology: an introduction” (2014). Carried out urban projects with the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment of ICSU (now the International Council for Science); long collaboration with colleagues in China, Visiting Professor at Université Paris 1.
Mark Champion BSc (Hons), MSc, PGcert, CEnv, CBiol, MCIEEM, MRSB Local WildlifeTrustWigan Projects Manager. Currently I am managing eight Local Nature Reserves and other conservation land covering over 1500ha. These reserves are managed to maximise their Biodiversity interest and their value to the community within a peri-urban synanthropic environment. The work in this area has led to the implementation of novel techniques in conservation and community engagement within the peri-urban environment which have been part of several published studies and papers. I implement the restoration of post-industrial landscapes fornature conservation and judge the value of a number of habitat improvement projects against national criteria. I have visited China to look at similar issues within their coal fields.
John Box FCIEEM FCIWEM FLS CEcol CEnv. John has many years of experience as an ecologist and environmental manager. He has worked for the Freshwater Biological Association, theUniversity of Sydney, Telford Development Corporation, Natural England, Wardell Armstrong (minerals & mining consultants) and Atkins (international engineering & environmental consultants) where he was a Technical Director in the Environment business. He has been involved with many voluntary organisations and was President of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. John has particular experience of habitat creation & restoration, blue & green infrastructure, biodiversity offsetting and natural capital & ecosystem services. Relevant contributions include a chapter on urban greenspace in The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology (2011) and a chapter on building urban biodiversity using financial incentives, regulation and targets in Urban Ecology (2011, OUP). He originated with Carolyn Harrison in 1993 the idea of standards for the provision of accessible natural greenspace in urban areas that have been formalised as the Natural England Access to Natural Greenspace Standards.