Speaker photos and bios for the webinar on 6th November, 12:00-13:00 online
Tim Crabtree: Director of Wessex Community Assets and researcher at the University of Plymouth, focusing on the potential to source natural materials from the bioregion, as well as the need to develop the infrastructure required to process those materials into products such as clothing or insulation panels.
Stefan Laxness: Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich where he is researching community-led landscape restoration initiatives in Europe through ethnographic and participatory action methods. His research explores the intersection of landscape restoration with place, commoning and urbanization.
Chaired by Ella Hubbard: Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
I'm hosting a webinar for the Regional Studies Sustainability Transitions Webinar Series with Tim Crabtree & Stefan Laxness! Come along to hear about commons, landscapes and transitions 🍃 Register here: www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-o...
@regstud.bsky.social @cresr-shu.bsky.social
29.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My RGS highlight was the Stich Assembly workshop. This was my attempt to kick off the Watershed Moments project with @riverdonproject.bsky.social. Can you tell what it is?
#StitchAssemblyRGS25
01.09.2025 09:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Eco-communities
Excited to share that my new collaborative book - Eco-communities - is now published with Bloomsbury + open access
We examine eco-communities worldwide through questions of transformative possibilities, inclusion, collective governance + diverse economics
Please read + share!
19.06.2025 10:33 — 👍 45 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 1
Exciting news! 👀 From September @juliandobson.bsky.social, @riverdonproject.bsky.social & I will be working together on the Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ funded project 'Watershed Moments'. Find out more and see the other amazing projects here: ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/ec-projects
03.06.2025 13:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Brilliant night speaking at the Festival of Debate last night with @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social, @lucygavaghan.bsky.social and @riverdonproject.bsky.social (and a wonderful audience ❤️)
14.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BISA working group in our second year.
Find our upcoming events and blog series via our website https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/ecp
Supporting and connecting researchers and policy-makers engaged in regional analysis and research. We're mostly on BlueSky now.
www.regionalstudies.org/
Vice Chair of the European Movement 🇪🇺 Former Green MEP 💚 Grandma 👵
Committee of the Social & Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Tweeting and retweeting geographical things
Research Fellow in Geography @ University of Manchester
Currently researching #MakingSlowColour (slowness, activism, growing, crafting, seeds, textiles & creative methods). She/her.
charrlotteadelina.de
"yes, I am Charrlotte" | she / her | thinking a lot about science as an employer | PhD-ing
urban ecologies, 🌱🌿, critical urbanism, & other interests that come and go
JUST is a new research centre focused on the pursuit of sustainability transformations that are people-centred, ‘joined-up’ and socially just.
https://www.just.ac.uk/
Chair @SDC_WUR & Prof @go2uj
Books:
Environmentalism under digital capitalism: http://truthaboutnature.com
The Conservation Revolution: http://convivialconservation.com
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Lecturer @ UoYork, UK, Politics, IGDC member, YESI co-research theme lead, Assoc Editor @JPoliticalEcology. Sustainable value chains, convivial conservation, SDGs, squirrels & more. Love singing & cycling, sometimes in conjunction. My views. She/her
MRes student researching wildness & peopled landscapes: currently examining representations of rewilding & farming in contemporary nature writing from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Exploring policy & practice across scales: cities, neighbourhoods, buildings. Independent, not-for-profit OA peer-review transdisciplinary journal.
https://www.journal-buildingscities.org
Founder & Director @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
https://www.common-wealth.org/
Co-author of Planet on Fire & Owning the Future
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/lawrence-mathew
Encouraging the creation of lots of messy wee ponds for nature! 🐸💧
Offering free pond workshops for youth groups🐠
Brought to you by the Messy Ecologist 🦋🦫🌿🐝🌷
Co-Director of Bioregioning Tayside
Money’s broken.
We’re unpacking why and what comes next.
bonkerseconomics.net
PhD-ing at Edinburgh 👩💻 aspiration and social stratification with birth cohorts 📈 Prev IOE/UCL, UEA and OU 🎓 sociology is life 💘
www.philosophyinprison.com
We do philosophy with anyone in prison no matter what
experience they have of education.
Energy Geography Research Group - part of the RGS.
https://www.energygeographies.org/
The Climate Citizens Research Group works with a wide group of stakeholders, including government, businesses and environmental groups, to promote greater citizen engagement in climate issues, and climate policymaking.
