Futures Forum: Butterflies @ Natural Histories on BBC Radio 4
This evening we went blackberrying:
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Dr Mark Spencer
Dr Mark Spencer is Senior Curator of the British and Irish Herbarium at the Natural History Museum in London. His curatorial and research interests are focused on environmental change and its impact upon the UK's flora, as well as investigating novel approaches to incorporating botanical data into the forensic investigative environment.
Mark also has an interest in historic botany, particularly 17th and 18th century herbariums as well as non-native invasive species. He is committed to engaging with and educating the wider British public about the value and interest of Britain’s flora. Mark’s botanical interests are wide-ranging but are particularly focused on the historic and non-native floras of London and the Isles of Scilly.
Mark is the Botanical Society of the British Isles vice-county recorder for Middlesex and the Vascular Plant Recorder for the London Natural History Society.
Mark also has an interest in historic botany, particularly 17th and 18th century herbariums as well as non-native invasive species. He is committed to engaging with and educating the wider British public about the value and interest of Britain’s flora. Mark’s botanical interests are wide-ranging but are particularly focused on the historic and non-native floras of London and the Isles of Scilly.
Mark is the Botanical Society of the British Isles vice-county recorder for Middlesex and the Vascular Plant Recorder for the London Natural History Society.
Professor Francesca Dall’Olmo Riley
Professor Dall'Olmo Riley worked in marketing management and direct marketing for several years in Italy, the USA and the UK, before obtaining a PhD from London Business School. She is now Professor of Brand Management in the Strategy, Marketing and Innovation Department of Kingston Business School, Kingston University UK.
Her research interests include the study of branding, omni-channel grocery shopping, behavioural and attitudinal loyalty to brands and services.
She has published widely in international journals, is and Associate Editor of the Journal of Marketing Management and sits on the Advisory Board of theJournal of Customer Behaviour and on the Editorial Review Board of theJournal of Product & Brand Management. Francesca chairs the Academy of Marketing Special Interest Group in Empirical Replications and Generalisations in Marketing Science.
Her research interests include the study of branding, omni-channel grocery shopping, behavioural and attitudinal loyalty to brands and services.
She has published widely in international journals, is and Associate Editor of the Journal of Marketing Management and sits on the Advisory Board of theJournal of Customer Behaviour and on the Editorial Review Board of theJournal of Product & Brand Management. Francesca chairs the Academy of Marketing Special Interest Group in Empirical Replications and Generalisations in Marketing Science.
Richard Mabey
Richard Mabey was educated at Oxford University and worked as a lecturer in Social Studies in Further Education and a Senior Editor at Penguin Books before becoming a full-time writer in 1974.
He is the author of some thirty books, including Weeds: How vagabond plant gatecrashed civilisation (2010), Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale (1993), winner of the East Anglia Book Award, 2010, in a revised version entitled The Barley Bird, Beechcombings: the narratives of Trees (2007), the ground-breaking and best-selling “cultural flora” Flora Britannica (1996), winner of a National Book Award, and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1986.
His memoir Nature Cure (2005), which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him break free from debilitating depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards, the Whitbread, Ondaatje, and J.R. Ackerley prizes. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has written a personal column in BBC Wildlife magazine since 1986.
He is the author of some thirty books, including Weeds: How vagabond plant gatecrashed civilisation (2010), Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale (1993), winner of the East Anglia Book Award, 2010, in a revised version entitled The Barley Bird, Beechcombings: the narratives of Trees (2007), the ground-breaking and best-selling “cultural flora” Flora Britannica (1996), winner of a National Book Award, and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1986.
His memoir Nature Cure (2005), which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him break free from debilitating depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards, the Whitbread, Ondaatje, and J.R. Ackerley prizes. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has written a personal column in BBC Wildlife magazine since 1986.
George Monbiot
George Monbiot is an environmental campaigner, a regular columnist for the Guardian newspaper and the author of several best selling books, including Heat: How we can stop the Planet Burning, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. His latest book is Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding
Twitter: @GeorgeMonbiot
Twitter: @GeorgeMonbiot
Stuart Phillips
Stuart Phillips trained in horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew before taking up a career as a horticultural lecturer at Reaseheath College in Cheshire and Moulton College, Northampton.
He works for Lantra Sector Skills Council as Product Development Manger for Forestry and Arboriculture and has been a regular contributor to gardening programmes on BBC radio, giving gardening advice and answering listeners’ questions.
He is also the author of An Encyclopaedia of Plants in Myth Legend Magic and Lore and he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
He works for Lantra Sector Skills Council as Product Development Manger for Forestry and Arboriculture and has been a regular contributor to gardening programmes on BBC radio, giving gardening advice and answering listeners’ questions.
He is also the author of An Encyclopaedia of Plants in Myth Legend Magic and Lore and he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
Professor Kim Reynolds
Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University and Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions at the University of Western Australia.
She has served on the board of a number of national bodies and has been a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books, since it opened in 2004. She has published widely across the history of children's literature including Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press.
With the help of a Major Leverhulme Fellowship she recently completed a book called Left Out: the forgotten radical tradition of publishing for children in Britain, 1910-1949. This will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2016.
She has served on the board of a number of national bodies and has been a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books, since it opened in 2004. She has published widely across the history of children's literature including Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press.
With the help of a Major Leverhulme Fellowship she recently completed a book called Left Out: the forgotten radical tradition of publishing for children in Britain, 1910-1949. This will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2016.
Broadcasts
BBC Radio 4 - Natural Histories, Brambles
See also:
Futures Forum: And the Nation’s Favourite Wild Flower is... the bluebell
Futures Forum: Slow Food: "Pleasure, hedonism, enjoyment, tranquility, conviviality, richness"
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