Vicky Bowskill

Group photo of 20 or so community members standing on the grass

Amazing time on the Creative Community Fellows retreat last week! Huge thanks to @derbymuseums.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for the opportunity. Lots more to come out of this 🎨✨🍃

Visual summary of the linked page

Have you ever thought about how artists and scientist view the world? 🌍👀 Find out more about this @openuniversity.bsky.social research & download the illustrated leaflet 🎨👇
inklusivenature.com/2025/06/26/a...
#SciArt #SciComm

SketchNote summary of the event by Vicky Bowskill

I had a fab day creating this #SketchNote at the @openuniversity.bsky.social Challenge Us! Showcase on Monday. An inspiring collection of projects, displays, talks & conversations showcasing the power of collaboration between charities, businesses and academia in tackling real-world challenges ✨🌍🎨

SketchNote of the event

I enjoyed today’s @conservoptimism.bsky.social webinar: “From Stories to Systems: How Storytelling Can Influence Policy”, with a special focus on how African youth voices are shaping conservation policy and action🌍🍃

#SketchNote #SciComm #BiophilicConversations #StorytellingForChange

SketchNote of the event

It begins! We had a warm and inclusive welcome from the Creative Communities Fellowship team this afternoon. With the upcoming residentials, coaching and jamouts, the next few months are going to rock! ✨🎉🎨🍃

A brilliant blog about a fantastic & meaningful day of celebration & connection. Honoured to have been a part of it 🍃

A brilliant blog about a fantastic & meaningful day of celebration & connection. Honoured to have been a part of it 🍃

Thanks Sara! ✨

SketchNote from the course

Had a fab time this week becoming a Mental Health First Aider with @openuniversity.bsky.social & @mhfaengland.bsky.social . It is so important to normalise talking skilfully about mental health, especially amongst minoritised communities. Highly recommended! 🍃🧠👇
mhfaengland.org
#SketchNote

UK Creative Community Fellows Welcomes 20 New Leaders Using Arts to Transform Communities » NAS United Kingdom – Derby Museums, The Bowes Museum and NAS are proud to announce the…

I'm excited to be a part of this year's Creative Community Fellows! Can't wait to get started on this creative, changemaking adventure 👇✨🎨
www.artstrategies.org/press-clippi...

Photo of letter to be posted

I'm just off out for a spot of nature connection and to post my 4th and final letter to this year's #STEMpenpal with Letters to a Prescientist.

It's been lovely getting to know a keen young future scientist and sharing experiences. I highly recommend doing it!

Sketchnote summary of the Sustainability Research Fesitval

Great Sustainability Research Festival at The Open University this week! We heard from staff across the OU to explore what is working well & find new opps for future work. It's also a great chance to catch up with friends! 👇🎨🌍
societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/blog
#SciComm #SciArt #engagedresearch

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Mitti Matters in the Meadow. Find out about this doodle-powered collaboration that saw school groups, practitioners and community groups helping to shape future research on #floodplain meadows by co-creating a funding bid 🎨🌼✏️ 👇
inklusivenature.com/2025/04/22/m...
#SciComm #SciArt #engagedresearch

Screenshot from the linked webpage for Conservation NOW

#EarthDay2025 is all about the Power of Collective Action. It's an appropriate time for Inklusive Nature to have joined @Conservation Optimism's Network Of Optimists #ConservationNOW community! Together we can do more 🌍🍃💚💪

conservationoptimism.org/conservation...

Pillowy mounds of freshly plucked dandelion petals, destined to be dandelion syrup. I love this spring treat 🍯🤤. Of course I made sure to leave plenty of blooms for the bees 🐝🌱☀️

Inklusion in the Chilterns Dadima’s stroll through the Chilterns was the perfect antidote to a late night home, after six hours in a train from Glasgow with noisy rugby fans. It had been a short night but I felt revive…

Another lovely Dadima's walk @vickybowskill.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/i...

Thank you Kate for a lovely blog. Such a joy to walk with you 🙏🍃

It was such a lovely, accepting space 🍃

SketchNote summary of the day

Happy #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek! ✨🌈
We recently celebrated our #Neurodivergent staff & students at Open University at 'SpoonFest: a festival of neurodivergent projects & passions' #SketchNote 🎨✏️

Read about what, why & how much this meant to our community 👇
inklusivenature.com/2025/03/13/s...

SketchNote reads 'Happy 1st birthday Inklusive Nature'. Photographed in a sketchbook surrounded by pencils, ivy and plum blossom

Inklusive Nature CIC is 1 today!🥳
It's been an amazing year. I've worked on some really inspiring projects with a range of brilliant people. Find out more on my blog, link in bio. Huge thanks and leafy gratitude to everyone who has shared the journey! 🙏🍃🎨

cartoon of five diverse women and/or non-binary people

An #InternationalWomensDay shout out to all the amazing humans out there who identify as women or non-binary, in all your fabulous variety. Together we are a much needed and unstoppable force. Keep shining your light, my friends ✨🌈🍃🙏

We had a brilliant line up of speakers & exhibitors, both online & in person. A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to making the day so much fun! We'll be sharing more about the day when we've recovered our *spoons 🥄 ✨💤🎧😎🌈

SketchNote of the event with snapshots of the in person exhibition, including, ethical clothing, vintage dolls, weaving, zines and dog showing.

We had an amazing time yesterday at *SpoonFest 2025!🥄✨A celebration of #neurodivergent projects & passions in a safe space designed for our #neurospicy community, whilst exploring what a neuro-inclusive event feels like. The vibe was relaxed, respectful and fantastically freeing!
🥄 ✨🎧😎 #SketchNote

Photo of a doodle journal page with the letters 'LPS', an envelope and the 2024-25 light bulb sticker from Letters to a Pre-Scientist

I was excited to receive my 2024-25 sticker from my Letters to a Pre-Scientist #STEMpenpal. The sticker was designed by GM, the winner of this years sticker competition. I just had to include it in my doodle journal 💡✏️

Find out more about these amazing young scientists at
prescientist.org

Photo of a sign made out of knitted letters reading Inklusive Nature

Found a new stash-busting #yarncraft project! A spot of french knitting, some garden wire and a twig from one of our cherry trees and we have a new sign for Inky HQ 🍃🧶

Photo of moss and ivy leaves

I found my way out into the Chilterns for some #ForestBathing today and was really enchanted by this intermingled moss and ivy. Such wonderful textures and shapes, in so many shades of green! 🍃
#NatureConnectedness

SketchNote of the event

Always a pleasure to 🎨 #SketchNote the @openuniversity.bsky.social #OpenSocietalChallenges cluster events. Today's Nature Cluster explored some great projects:
🍃 societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/blog/the-exi...
🌼 societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/challenges/f...
🔎 learn5.open.ac.uk/course/forma...

SketchNote of the meeting

I enjoyed attending my first meeting of the #NatureConnectednessNetwork today. Lots of inspiring work going on and I look forward to making new connections and Doing Things 🍃
www.natureconnectedness.net

SketchNote summary of the post

Inspiring event today on Climate & Environmental Justice 🌍
We heard from an exciting range of projects from the @openuniversity.bsky.social Open Societal Challenges (OSC).
This is why I love working on the OSC blog - check it out for more inspiring stories 👇
lnkd.in/gqRG5snP
#SketchNote #SciComm

Climate Distress and Young People Using the Power Threat Meaning Framework to support non-pathologising understandings

📅 Thursday 23 January at 5 pm

Climate Distress and Young People workshop from the Climate Psychology Alliance

Find out more here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-di...