I create space to curate, compere, moderate conversations on countryside and environmental issues
What I do – in a 90 second vlog
Upcoming: Events in 5 Feb Devon and 24 Feb Dundee in 2026 in development.
Speaking | hosting | moderating: Compering a wildlife conservation auction. Moderating an archaeological workshop. Hosting a session Landscape Conference (Ireland). A gig at Groundswell. Hosting a panel at the River Summit. A talk on regen land for RICS conf. My opening session at Carbon Calling farming conf here, leading an open mic session on Rural Futures, compering a curlew workshop day, hosting a workshop on Alliances for Conservation at an Irish Land event and at this workshop/conf at Aberystwyth University.
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Plus a fringe event at a political party conf (Liverpool), a bilateral conference on salmon (Hampshire); a congress on wildlife/hunting (Paris), a national wildfire conf (Wales), a Changing Landscapes conf (Ireland), a rivers summit, a talk at the Agricultural Law Association (London), and a novel session at Groundswell (Herts).
Learning Guest edit this film on upland use. Forestry at the Royal Welsh. Hosting a conversation event. A landscape event. A ‘provocatively unprovocative‘ piece.
Letters published in The Times: birds, bats, moorland, stoats, pesticides, poultry, invasive species (more here)
Michael Gove (in conversation with Julian Glover, at ‘Future Countryside’) – off the cuff on ‘politics, nature in the raw’ and ‘gingering up’ Defra (incls Q&A)
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