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Toronto – PhD Life

Midhal — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:50:31 +0000

As always, meeting Ambika Tenneti and Dr Jacqueline L. Scott in Toronto was great.

This was a great opportunity to discuss PhD life, collaborations on several projects, papers, journal articles, chapters and possible conferences. (all our PhDs are focussed around Race and environment / Outdoors )

Was great to visit the Toronto Reference Library.

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Walking Festival

Midhal — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:14:42 +0000

We had a fabulous weekend as part of the YHA (England & Wales) Festival of Walking in the Lake District. We enjoyed the outdoors together, walking in the Lake District and enjoying the beautiful surroundings of the National Park. The weather was kind to us!!!

Our countryside and landscapes are for everyone – yet there are still far too many barriers (racism) preventing people from ethnically diverse communities from accessing them. Nature should be accessible to everyone and not just a few.

Find out more https://bit.ly/3KewH9W

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Volunteering

Midhal — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:29:35 +0000

A small group of ethnically diverse people came together for a taster volunteer weekend at Rookhow, near Coniston, to experience volunteering in the landscapes.

With the @friendsoflakes Lakes, at their Rusland Woods site, we undertook a hands-on conservation activity cutting Holly regeneration near the bases of trees so the Bryophytes and Lichens can spread and carried out some surveying. On Sunday, we spent the morning with #FixtheFells (@ntlakedistrict ), with a walk and talk around Beacon Tarn and Fell and an opportunity to understand and discuss some of the issues that FtF has to deal with, such as footpaths and erosion.

The group spent Saturday evening over dinner with several landscape organisations, discussing various volunteer opportunities available in the landscapes.

We have two days planned for 2025, in April and June. If you’re interested, please message us.

Thanks to @rookhow1725, @friendsoflakes, and @lake district foundation

Inclusive volunteering is crucial in protecting our landscapes for the future, and all communities need to be engaged, including the need to think out of the box. If any landscape organisations wish to collaborate on inclusive volunteering, please do get in touch.

my colleagues and friends @blackoutdoors1 Scott, J. L., & @ambika Tenneti, A. (2024). have published their experiences as nature volunteers in Toronto, which is worth a read. Race in nature stewardship: an autoethnography of two racialised volunteers in urban ecology. Environmental Research: Ecology 3 (2024)

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