Jim Scown
@JimScown
🧐 all things soil 💩🪱🦠✨
Lecturer in Environmental Humanities @HaSSCornwall
Advisor @FFC_Commission 🌾
New Generation Thinker @BBCFreeThinking 📻
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Great to see Ruth Heholt's and Dr. Joan Passey's books on this list! Congratulations! Cornwall appears to be very well represented here--a sentence I don't think I've ever uttered in any other context!
keele.ac.uk/surf/currentca… 12. The Peat District: Telling Stories about Extraction, Storage and Landscape Change. Contact: Me! [email protected]. This is about Peat: a real treasure of these islands, with unique cultural resonances, ecologies, pasts and futures...
How we grow, make & eat food isn’t working for everyday people anymore.
We hear five expert perspectives on why food is so important for climate, nature & health, now and for the next generation📽️
Rosie Boycott Rob Percival Chris van Tulleken 🏳️🌈 Tim Benton #TheFoodConversation
My latest opinion piece in CPM Magazine Nature Natters: No Nature, No Farmers, No Food. cpm-magazine.co.uk/opinion/nature…
Job alert! 2 positions University of Oulu: Post-doc, and PhD student (both 3y) in our Koneen Säätiö funded project 'In the shadow of carbon', on #regenag regenerative farming & #carbonfarming knowledge politics and practice. Deadline 4th April, see rb.gy/92hywm , please rtweet
📢This Week! 🫠 webinar with me & Arianna Giovannini Weds 13th March, 5pm. How identities shape UK politics, and how can we engage today’s students more effectively.🇬🇧
Join Us!
SAGE Publications 🤩
UoE Humanities & Social Sciences Cornwall ⬇️
sagepub.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Our department manager Mark Ross Plummer talks about how working at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Penryn Campus has impacted his life, career, and relationship with his home.
Read the article here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-hum…
Uni of Exeter's ESI Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Institute of Cornish Studies 〓〓
Developing and running the MA in Environmental Humanities UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities has been such a rewarding experience. Watch the students explain why this course matters below Arts Matter Bristol University of Bristol #envhum
youtu.be/BvaKnafcl2Y?si…
Guys, I need your help!
University of Kent is planning to close one of the world’s last ethnobotany degrees.
Understanding people & plants is crucial to every major challenge to face our species, from climate change to food security.
Please share & sign!
change.org/p/save-anthrop…
HaSS Cornwall’s Joanie Willett, co-director of Institute of Cornish Studies 〓〓, talks about her academic journey and Cornish research as part of the Penryn Perspectives project, celebrating University of Exeter, Cornwall’s 20th anniversary.
Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Uni of Exeter's ESI
We at Climate Change Committee are looking for a new (paid) Adaptation Committee member with expertise in farming / agriculture and climate change! 🚜
We realise this a big gap in the current Committee membership so are now trying to rectify it 👩🌾
Please share far and wide with your networks!
Keslowena to Dr Kensa Broadhurst on passing her viva today. Wonderful news and richly deserved
Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences University of Exeter, Cornwall Uni of Exeter Doctoral College
Are you thinking about postgraduate study? We would love for you to join us at our postgraduate Open Day this March 🎓
Our postgraduate Open Day at Penryn Campus University of Exeter, Cornwall is taking place on Saturday 2 March 2024 📅
Book now at bit.ly/424Rmoo
HaSS Cornwall's Frederick Harry Pitts shares his perspectives on the importance of the Penryn Campus as part of the celebrations of University of Exeter being based in Cornwall for 20 years.
news.exeter.ac.uk/university/cor…
University of Exeter, Cornwall Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Exeter Politics
In the Climate Emergency module, Cornwall-based #History and Environmental #Humanities students explore the cultures, histories, and politics of environmental and climate change, drawing on fieldtrips in the unique Cornish landscape.
Find out more here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/study/humaniti…
History in Cornwall brings historical focus to a range of challenges facing societies today to give students understanding of the power the past has in shaping the present and how we think about the future.
hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/study/humaniti…
University of Exeter, Cornwall Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Delighted today to co-facilitate the Cumbria Land and Nature Skills Service (LANSS) Steering Group
#skills #nature #farming #woodland #careers
We are recruiting our Service manager - do join the team
Stephen Trotter Adam Day Andrea Meanwell University of Cumbria The Ernest Cook Trust
Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light - article published! Royal Institution Davy Notebooks Project English Literature and Creative Writing theguardian.com/science/2023/d…