Voices of the future: Collaborating with children and young people to re-imagine treescapes
Lead Research Organisation:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Department Name: Faculty of Education
Abstract
The future of treescapes belongs to children and young people. Yet there is a lack of interdisciplinary research that explores their engagement with treescapes over time. This project aims to re-imagine future treescapes with children and young people, working with local and national partners including Natural England, Forest Research and the Community Forests and Scottish stakeholders. We will identify opportunities and barriers to treescape expansion and pilot innovative child and youth-focused pathways to realising this goal. We will create curricula material which will be disseminated with the support of our project partners, Early Childhood Outdoors and the Chartered College of Teachers.
The aim of this project is to integrate children and young people's knowledge, experiences, and hopes with scientific knowledge of how trees adapt to and mitigate climate change in order to co-produce new approaches to creating and caring for resilient treescapes that benefit the environment and society. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches and in collaboration with stakeholders, the team will produce a 'lexicon of experience' that captures the ecological identities of children and young people. An audit of existing activity in the field of activism and treescapes, with a particular focus on marginalised groups, will inform the project. In particular, the project will produce new material for use by practitioners, educators and policy makers that will inform future treescape planting and will be rolled out nationally, with the help of our project partners. Novel methods for assessing carbon storage in trees and soil will inform a 'tree-twinning' project to enable children and young people to recognise how they can relate to treescapes. Children and young people will draw on the scientific work together with their lived experience to balance their evolving carbon footprint with the changing treescapes they have partnered with. New treescapes will be planted with the help of Community Forests and local authorities. Learning will be enhanced by the scientific project on tree-twinning, embedded within the project, to advance knowledge about the relationship between climate science and urban trees. This research will be carried out with children and young people as co-researchers.
The project will focus on hope as a vital ingredient of future planning and philosophically and practically create a set of actions to look to the future while addressing temporalities, including past archival work on trees. It will work with cohorts of young people across early years, primary, secondary and young people out of school, as well as families and communities, to think about and engage with treescapes, to plan as well as plant new treescapes and to engage in treescape thinking and curricula innovation. Working with Natural England as project partners, a toolkit will be developed to guide this work and a set of resources and outputs to be rolled out nationally that inspire and inform future generations of children and young people to become involved in treescapes, which will re-shape the disciplinary landscape of treescapes research and inform policy and practice. Community forest planners, policy-makers and practitioners will better understand how to engage children and young people in treescapes and how to work with their knowledges to inspire and inform future generations. Innovative approaches to arts and humanities, environmental science and social science will produce a new understanding of how combining disciplines can further treescape research with children and young people. The project will also advance methodological understandings of the relationship between children and young people and treescapes with a focus on co-production and attending to lived experience while conducting environmental scientific research. New knowledge in the fields of environmental and social science will create new disciplinary paradigms and concepts.
The aim of this project is to integrate children and young people's knowledge, experiences, and hopes with scientific knowledge of how trees adapt to and mitigate climate change in order to co-produce new approaches to creating and caring for resilient treescapes that benefit the environment and society. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches and in collaboration with stakeholders, the team will produce a 'lexicon of experience' that captures the ecological identities of children and young people. An audit of existing activity in the field of activism and treescapes, with a particular focus on marginalised groups, will inform the project. In particular, the project will produce new material for use by practitioners, educators and policy makers that will inform future treescape planting and will be rolled out nationally, with the help of our project partners. Novel methods for assessing carbon storage in trees and soil will inform a 'tree-twinning' project to enable children and young people to recognise how they can relate to treescapes. Children and young people will draw on the scientific work together with their lived experience to balance their evolving carbon footprint with the changing treescapes they have partnered with. New treescapes will be planted with the help of Community Forests and local authorities. Learning will be enhanced by the scientific project on tree-twinning, embedded within the project, to advance knowledge about the relationship between climate science and urban trees. This research will be carried out with children and young people as co-researchers.
The project will focus on hope as a vital ingredient of future planning and philosophically and practically create a set of actions to look to the future while addressing temporalities, including past archival work on trees. It will work with cohorts of young people across early years, primary, secondary and young people out of school, as well as families and communities, to think about and engage with treescapes, to plan as well as plant new treescapes and to engage in treescape thinking and curricula innovation. Working with Natural England as project partners, a toolkit will be developed to guide this work and a set of resources and outputs to be rolled out nationally that inspire and inform future generations of children and young people to become involved in treescapes, which will re-shape the disciplinary landscape of treescapes research and inform policy and practice. Community forest planners, policy-makers and practitioners will better understand how to engage children and young people in treescapes and how to work with their knowledges to inspire and inform future generations. Innovative approaches to arts and humanities, environmental science and social science will produce a new understanding of how combining disciplines can further treescape research with children and young people. The project will also advance methodological understandings of the relationship between children and young people and treescapes with a focus on co-production and attending to lived experience while conducting environmental scientific research. New knowledge in the fields of environmental and social science will create new disciplinary paradigms and concepts.
Organisations
- Manchester Metropolitan University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Manchester City Council (Collaboration)
- Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (Collaboration)
- The Tree Council (Collaboration)
- BOLTON COLLEGE (Collaboration)
- Avensis Support (Collaboration)
- Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (Collaboration)
- The Mersey Forest (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- City of Trees (Collaboration)
- Bramhall High School (Project Partner)
- Natural England (Project Partner)
- Seymour Park Primary School (Project Partner)
- Early Childhood Outdoors (CIC) (Project Partner)
- Aberdeen City Council (Project Partner)
- FOREST RESEARCH (Project Partner)
- Whalley Range High School For Girls (Project Partner)
- Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust (Project Partner)
- Wild Rumpus (Project Partner)
- Woodside School (Project Partner)
- Chartered College of Teaching (Project Partner)
- Station House Media Unit (SHMU) (Project Partner)
- Bailies of Bennachie (Project Partner)
- Pendleton Sixth Form College (Project Partner)
- GREATER MANCHESTER COMBINED AUTHORITY (Project Partner)
Publications
Ambreen S
(2025)
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research
in Environmental Education Research
Ambreen S
(2024)
Attending to children's voices within environmental education
in Childhood
Ambreen S
(2023)
Trees and Us: Learning About/From Trees and Treescapes From Primary School Children in the United Kingdom
in Occasional Paper Series
Ambreen, S
(2024)
Assembling Voice through refiguring presences: Attending to children's voices within talk and drawings as a mode of re-thinking environmental education
in Childhood Studies
Badwan, K.
(2024)
Working with/beyond language: insights from a study of young migrants' engagement with the natural environment
in Language and Intercultural Communication
Cooper D
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies
Cooper, D
(2022)
North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature
David Cooper
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies,
Hackett A
(2025)
Fractured stories and voices of the future; coproduced research with young children and trees
in Global Studies of Childhood
Hanley C
(2024)
The Importance of Experience: Supporting Pupils' Creative Writing About the Natural World
in Changing English
| Title | Children's story book |
| Description | This is still in development. The project entails working with a famous children's author who will co-develop and co-illustrate a story about trees with 90 Year (4) children in Seymour Park Community Primary School, Manchester. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | We expect this to be an impactful story which marks a step change in communicating children's views and imaginings through the powerful tool of children's story books. The author is a renowned writer whose involvement will give the output national visibility and this is likely to generate notable impact. |
| Title | Listening to Children Listening to Trees |
| Description | This is a designed booklet which is concerned with how to support very young children and their families engage in treescapes. It is illustrated with drawings by artist Maisy Summer and photographs by artist Steve Pool. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | This booklet is now on our website and is being circulated to the organisation Early Childhood Outdoors and other key organisations. |
| URL | https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/2025/01/27/listening-to-children-listening-to-trees/ |
| Title | Poster graphic of 24 organisations engaged with young people on nature and climate issues. |
| Description | This is a text based graphic, a 5x5 grid of tiles, each with short summary of an activist or engagement organisation. Each tile is also available on it's own to showcase the work and has been used on social media to highlight the 'Young People Act' resource. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | We have distributed 250 copies of the resource to different organisations nationally, plus 24 downloads. This was largely due to our social media presence. |
| URL | https://twitter.com/clarerishbeth/status/1729155903008690487 |
| Title | School Mural |
| Description | Collaborating with Seymour Park Community Primary School and the school's artist, Badwan supported the development of a mural on the theme of nature, working with 90 children in Reception. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The children engaged with conversations about trees, nature, biodiversity and habitats. |
| Title | Treescapes Manifesto |
| Description | This was a manifesto that was co-created by children from Seymour Park Primary School in Old Trafford, Manchester . It was displayed on the Voices of the Future website, and also on Bilboards in Liverpool in August 2024. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | The Bilboards were visible throughout Liverpool for a month. This was reported on The Mersey Forest website. |
| URL | https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/2024/05/23/seymour-park-treescapes-toolkit/ |
| Title | Treescapes exhibition |
| Description | This was an exhibition that was displayed at Manchester Museums as part of their 'WILD' exhibition. It was attended by 41,043 people (these were the counted figures) including a party of 30 children who were in the film that was displayed. The exhibition consisted of a Tree of Hope, with leaves that children could write on, together with the Children's Manifesto for Trees plus the Treescapes film. The leaves were written on by children and young people, with hopes for the future. There was also a laser scan image of a tree on display . |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | We are going to be analysing the leaves that were written on by visitors to the exhibition. |
| URL | https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/wild/ |
| Title | Treescapes film |
| Description | This was a film, made by Steve Pool, which recorded and documented the views of children and young people involved in the 'Voices of the Future' project. It was shown at the UKTreescaps conference in Glasgow, which was attended by many stakeholders from the field including DEFRA, Natural England and the Creative Scotland. It was then shown for 3 months as part of the Manchester Museums WILD exhibition. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | The film was viewed by DEFRA (sent on a private link) and was the basis of an internal staff briefing about the importance of listening to children and young people. |
| Title | Voices of the Future website |
| Description | This is a webside designed by artist Maisy Summer and including many art work by her and the children in the project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | This website has been visited regularly by organisations such as Forestry England, The Woodland Trust, Chartered College of Teaching and DEFRA for information . |
| URL | https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk |
| Description | What we achieved: • Our work opened out the many ways that children and young people (2-25) - particularly in diverse, urban communities - interact with, play with, live with, know about, and value trees and treescapes, developing alternative epistemological and methodological approaches. • It sought to ensure that policy-makers and practitioners who work in the tree sector know about and understand these diverse ways of knowing trees, with a view to making existing and planned treescapes (e.g. planned by major regional tree planting organisations) inclusive, accessible and appropriate to the human communities who will live with and use them. • We co-created a new lexicon of experience with children and young people as co-researchers to re-think existing typologies of urban trees and provided a new prototype of children and young people as designing, planting, measuring and caring for treescapes. • We engaged in working with teachers on curriculum development to reflect this new knowledge across disciplines. • We worked across disciplines to bring together different knowledges to do this, with a focus on place, diversity, children and young people and embodied knowledge. • We drew upon participatory approaches to research in order to co-produce the research with the children across the cycles of the project that stretched across designing future treescapes, planting, measuring and caring for treescapes. • Working with children and schools in this way have led to the planting of thousands of trees in school grounds and other community spaces. • The project has placed children's knowledges and actions more centrally, improving approaches to educating (with) children and young people, addressing skills shortages and a lack of diversity in the tree sector, and tracking the benefits of designing, planting, measuring, being with and maintaining trees with children and young people. We have identified that the potential carbon store in urban trees is up to 4x greater than previously estimated by citizen science tools like Treezilla, meaning that urban treescapes offer potentially far greater carbon and climate benefits than we have previously considered. But valuing a tree goes beyond just its carbon, and we are now able to more accurately reflect children and young people's lived experiences in the ways we measure and value trees in apps like Treezilla. Our key finding is that children and young people urgently need to be involved in the design, planting, caring and measuring of urban treescapes and their voices need to be meaningfully embedded into policy and practice. In addition: Further findings: • Children and young people know things about the world that adults might not have thought of. Their worlds are different, and their knowledge is different. This is particularly relevant for children and young people who are multilingual or whose experience is different from adults working in woodland contexts. • Diversity is not a separate/tick box goal but integrated into and central to our approach - our way of working is intrinsically inclusive because of the slow, deliberative, collaborative ways in which we worked and also the attention we pad to listening to children's experiences and being attentive to voice and language. • Co-production involves doing everything together, including researching. Our approach involves children and young people in a whole cycle- designing treescapes - and including their vision - as well as planting and caring for them. Children were also involved in measuring the carbon sequestration of urban trees and researching their engagement with treescapes. We developed through this the idea of the prototype - children as designers, planters, measurers and carers of treescapes - as central to our project. • We generated thinking that is tree-like - it had roots and leaves, and it breathes and moves. Children do understand that you can have a conversation with a tree and the tree can talk back . We were able to create a new language of description for thinking about trees -a lexicon of experience in the form of stories, videos, designs, ways of measuring, ways of caring- that we could learn from. • Embodied knowing is very important for the project, and a sense of place as well as understandings of belonging as well as non-belonging. It is important to hold the space and deepen kinship with trees through the body, learning from trees and children. |
| Exploitation Route | We have developed set of resources and toolkits and a new website to disseminate our resources. This contains our publications and our resources. We are hoping that our research will be useful to a) practitioners including those concerned with urban woodlands and planning b) teachers who wish to expand their repertoire of outdoor education and climate-related resources and bring together science teaching with literacy/English c) Early years' educators and those who work with children and families in informal settings d) Climate focused organisations who wish to involve young people in their activist work and need to know how to do this e) Policy makers who want to create engagement opportunities for children and young people. We have already gathered evidence from stakeholders such as The Mersey Forest, DEFRA and Manchester City of Trees to recognise that our work is important to their thinking going forward. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Environment Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/tools-resources-2/ |
| Description | 1. We have developed new interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches to environmental education and civic engagement with treescapes that work with children and young people's knowledge and imaginings of the future of Treescapes in the UK. Based on our research, we have done the following: • Co-designed several new 'treescapes' with schoolchildren and young people with our stakeholders such as Mersey Forest: planting thousands of trees in diverse schoolgrounds in the Manchester and Mersey regions; ensuring the treescapes meet the needs and hopes of children (aged 8 upwards); This has led to benefits for children in terms of involvement in/learning about tree-planting and, tree measurement and stewardship in the longer-term • Youth researchers co-delivered and evaluated a field trip for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people to Peaks District National Park (reflective data recorded) • We have supported the development of knowledge, skills, and competencies among youth co-researchers, including AQA qualifications. (19 young people earned AQA qualifications, with 39 qualifications awarded in total) • From this, 35 young people from asylum-seeking backgrounds were supported to visit and learn about treescapes (our reflective data evidences the impact) 2. We have collaborated with a range of non-academic beneficiaries to promote new ways of working regionally and nationally, centring children and young peoples' voices and aspirations for the future. We have identified a change: * in strategy (The Mersey Forest) - contributing to The Mersey Forest Strategic plan * in perspective - contributing to the thinking within DEFRA- and * in approach to treescape planting with Manchester City of Trees in terms of diversity and ways of working. 3. We have produced a range of outputs that were co-produced with children and young people and can be used across early years, primary, secondary, further education to promote a new lexicon of experience in areas related to sustainability, climate action and environmental education as well as civic engagement and social inclusion. • Hundreds of primary- and secondary-aged children, from diverse urban communities, acting as co-researchers in our project (including but beyond the tree-planting/stewardship). Benefits have included: inclusion/ensuring their voices, knowledges and experiences are heard on a topic where usually they are 'told' why and how trees are beneficial for us and the environment; gaining skills as researchers - e.g. on research methods, ethics, analysis; engagement with a range of learning experiences - especially interdisciplinary art/science lessons on trees (usually taught in subject silos) • We have developed curricula resources with early years, primary, secondary and FE sectors which have exemplified our transdisciplinary approach. • In preparation: a video and printed resource supporting the inclusion of refugee and migrant background young people in treescapes sectors (youth-adult collaboration) • We have facilitated the donation of a park bench to Longford Park (youth-adult collaboration). • We have worked on the production of tree-care leaflet - designed and written by children in a school in Cheshire and planned to go to all the schools in Merseyside, via The Mersey Forest Who benefits? • Schools are a key audience for our toolkits, as well as early years organisations. They will benefit by having mechanisms for involving children and young people in outdoor education through designing and planting treescapes. • There are wider benefits for the individual schools involved in terms of teacher CPD, benefits for the wider school community, teachers' involvement in co-developing learning materials/activities with us that will be rolled out nationally (now available on website as resources and toolkits: https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/ • The forestry sector has become aware of the need to reconceptualise the ways in which children and young people are listened to and involve them more in the different stages of designing, planting and caring for trees. • Working across disciplines has changed how we can conceptualise place and ways of designing, planting, measuring and caring for treescapes - that is, changing places - with children and young people. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | Co-production workshops |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Informed contribution to the Natural England Social Science Advisory Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The work of the committee directly informs approaches to engaging people and place within Natural England projects and policy. |
| Description | Membership of Mersey Forest Plan Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Communicating wisdom: An arts and humanities-based study of fishing in youth work. |
| Amount | £32,151 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/K006479/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2013 |
| End | 01/2014 |
| Description | Digital Voices of the Future |
| Amount | £81,984 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/Y004159/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | Temporal Belongings Research Network |
| Amount | £31,967 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/J006653/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2012 |
| End | 01/2013 |
| Description | We participated in the Artists Legacy Project, PI Kate Pahl, University of Sheffield |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/L013185/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2014 |
| End | 01/2015 |
| Description | this project was succeeded by The Time of the Clock and the Time of Encounter |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/J006637/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2012 |
| End | 01/2013 |
| Title | Co-production - involving children and young people as designers, planters, measurers and carers of trees. |
| Description | This methodology can be described as a prototype of co-production. In our project, children and young people designed, planted, cared for and measured trees. They also added to the Treezilla App and produced their own investigations and reports, producing a child-led typology of urban treescapes. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Richard Bridge from DEFRA has written a reflection on how this methodology changed his thinking. We also have evidence from The Mersey Forest and Manchester City of trees that their work changed their approach. |
| URL | https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk |
| Title | Young People Act: Nature and Climate, 2022-2023 |
| Description | This project is the first work package of the UKRI-NERC funded 'Voices of the Future: Collaborating with Young People to reimagine Treescapes' The aim of this particular sub-project is to map and evaluate the ethos, activities, structure and impact of organisations and initiatives in the UK which seek to engage young people (age 12-24 years) in nature connection, place change and/or environmental activism in rural and urban environments. Depending on the group remit and context, we were particularly interested in opportunities and barriers to involvement by children and young people from commonly marginalised backgrounds. This will inform shared understandings of what constitutes genuine, effective and sustained inclusion and power for Children and Young People (CYP) with supporting their potential influence with regard to changing UK treescapes (woodlands, parks, street trees). There will be a digital resource to demonstrate good practice and innovation in this field. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 2023. Request by a postgraduate student to access the archive (granted). |
| URL | http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/id/eprint/856622 |
| Description | Avensis Support - youth engagement |
| Organisation | Avensis Support |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Through this project, we are offering activities, personal development opportunities, and AQA unit award qualifications to young people cared for by Avensis Support. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Avensis Support provide housing for many unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Manchester. They have contributed to the project by referring potential youth researchers into the project and supporting them to attend sessions. |
| Impact | This collaboration had indirectly contributed project outputs through facilitation of youth researcher participation. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Coproducing with children and young people as a methodology for writing the 2026 strategy for Mersey Forest |
| Organisation | The Mersey Forest |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | In this collaboration Mersey Forest are exploring with the project team the contribution that a coproduction methodology with children and young people will make to their thinking about working with young people. In a series of workshops, Samyia Ambreen, Kate Pahl and Dave Armson from Mersey Forest together with artist Steve Pool, will explore creative methods with children and young people. Through these workshops, a more complex idea of child voice in the mix of urban tree planning will be developed. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Mersey Forest contacted the schools, and they developed the relationships so we could go in and work with the students. They also co-produced the planning and developed ideas with us for the sessions. |
| Impact | None at present, but this is because this is just beginning as a project. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | DEFRA youth consultation |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Members of the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group participated in a focus group for the evaluation of DEFRA's Tree Planting Programme, sharing insights specific to their experience as refugee-background young people. Members of the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group travelled with project investigators to the DEFRA offices in York to engage in dialogue with the Nature for Climate Tree Programme about supporting access and inclusion for refugee-background young people. |
| Collaborator Contribution | DEFRA hosted a visit by project investigators and youth researchers where they shared their work and engaged in knowledge exchange with the youth team. |
| Impact | Outputs are forthcoming |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Lecturing staff at Bolton College |
| Organisation | Bolton College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | N/A |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of staff at Bolton College contributed their time and expertise to help co-create a programme of teaching and learning activities |
| Impact | Delivery of programme of activities which are providing the basis for co-authored reflections |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Manchester Central Library |
| Organisation | Manchester City Council |
| Department | Manchester Central Library |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating with the library staff to organise educational activities for school children around trees and climate change. Children from nearby schools participate in these sessions as part of their library visit. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have organised a session on "The tree of hope" with Year 3 children in Gorton library on 8th December 2023. |
| Impact | We are planning to do some more engagement activities about trees and climate change in Moss side library. We hope to reach home schooled children and their families through this collaboration. The planned activities will take place in June- July 2024. (Final dates to be confirmed) |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Manchester City Council New Arrivals & Leaving Care teams |
| Organisation | Manchester City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Through the 'Feeling our Way' section of the project, we have worked with MCC New Arrivals and Leaving Care teams to identify young people (who migrated as unaccompanied asylum seekers) to participate in the research and associated activities. This provides an important recreational activity for young people in the care of, or transitioning out of care with MCC. We have also spoken to these teams about the value of nature-engagement for young people from asylum seeking backgrounds. In 2023 we supported an MCC worker to nominate one of our youth leaders for awards granted by the local authority. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Workers in the MCC Leaving Care and New Arrivals teams have identified, and contacted on our behalf, young people who are eligible and interested in participating in our project. |
| Impact | This partnership has resulted in approximately 30 young people participating in our project. It also resulted in one of our youth leaders being awarded the Manchester City Council Self Belief award and the Lord Mayor's Award. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Membership of Board of The Mersey Forest Ideas Lab |
| Organisation | The Mersey Forest |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I have been invited onto the board of the Mersey Forest Ideas Lab, which is an initiative co-ordinated by the Mersey Forest to draw together a number of universities and research institutes to develop the idea of the community forest becoming a hub of research and engagement in the area of urban treescapes and the relationships between humans and woodland ecology. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This is an ongoing initiative which is generating emergent ideas for funding bids for both research and knowledge exchange. |
| Impact | None yet, but we are currently developing a series of proposals both for academic and public engagement activities as part of the refresh of The Mersey Forest Plan. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Partnership with Stockport Borough Council |
| Organisation | Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Sharing of research data and findings at Stockport Climate Action Now summit, November 2023. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to, and permission for tree sampling at South Park, Cheadle Hulme in June/July 2023 |
| Impact | Presentation at Stockport Climate Action Now Summit, November 2023 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Tree Council Consultancy |
| Organisation | The Tree Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Khawla Badwan is appointed a consultant for the Tree Council's impact work to assess their school engagement programme Khawla Badwan is also named as a consultant for a new bid for the Tree Council to extend the impact consultancy work to their new scheme on carbon capture at schools |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge Exchange on different ways to engage schools in educational programmes around trees and treescapes in relation to children's voices. |
| Impact | Consultancy impact report to be produced. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Tree planting in a school in Bolton with Manchester City of Trees |
| Organisation | City of Trees |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The project team introduced City of Trees Manchester to the tree planting opportunity at Blackrod School in Bolton. The school engaged with this activity by offering a number of opportunities to co-design and develop woodlands in the school grounds. As a result of the partnership, 900 trees were planted on site. As a result of this, children made videos and created fieldnotes about the work they did in tree planting. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The City of Trees brought the trees to plan and showed the children how to plant trees. They developed a methodology by which all the children were engaged in planting trees. The children also recorded this as co-researchers. |
| Impact | One of the children, Zoey Ashcroft, created a fieldnote of worms which she recorded and turned into a piece of writing for an online journal for Teachers and academics based in the US called Bank Street Occasional Papers. There are also ongoing presentations of the data that was collected by the children and articles and books are in progress. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | 'The Story of the Manchester Poplar' CPD Workshop, Science & Industry Museum: 4 July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 'The Story of the Manchester Poplar' CPD Workshop, Science & Industry Museum: 4 July 2022. External speakers included Alison Crook (Associate Curator, Science & Industry Museum) and Andrew Lickley (Science Museum Group Academy Programme Leader). The event was attended by teachers of Englsih from local secondary schools and members of the public. The outcome of this event was a widening of network of contacts and development of interdisciplinary approaches to thinking about trees within the English curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 20-20 access space exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Over 600 people visited this Visual Arts exhibition in Sheffield, which was open to the pubic for one week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Assembly for Year 10, Ellesmere Port Catholic High School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 16th February: Assembly to 170 Year 10 children not involved in either of the Treescapes projects to explore how young people view and relate to their local environment. I used Mentimeter to gather anonymous data on how children view their local to regional environment, and invited feedback from the children about the types of urban treescapes they recognise and value. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | BERA conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference session based around our Voices of the Future project, focusing on hope and the implications of our approach for environmental education at different levels of education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bera.ac.uk/conference/bera-conference-2023 |
| Description | Blog post: Inclusive Climate Activism led by Young People |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A blog post which summarises the key findings from our work with young people engaged in activism work, and highlights the key points for practice. It provides an introduction and link to the Young People Act resource. After engaging with the blog, we have distributed 250 copies of the resource nationally, and 24 downloads of it from our digital platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/blog/clare-rishbeth/inclusive-climate-activism-led-young-people |
| Description | Celebration and sharing event at Clifton Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We organised a celebration and sharing event to mark the end of this phase of fieldwork, in a local park. Families who had participated in the research, together with other families and members of the public from the park attended the event. The art work created by the children during the fieldwork phase was displayed, and we had food and music. Staff from local authority were also there. We created a visual booklet summarising the fieldwork and key findings, which we distributed at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Central Bedfordshire Council presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Peter Kraftl presented an overview of the Voices of the Future project to Central Bedfordshire Council's Sustainability Network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Children's rights to Participate in Research Activity (Church of England: School of Resurrection) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was organised with children to explain their rights for being co-researchers in our project. We introduced different activities that we were planning to do during our collaboration. We also discussed code of practice for our collaborative partnership. This was done to explain to children about their rights of being co-researchers in a research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Co- Designing our own woodland (Blackrod Primary School) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 91 Year 3/4 pupils, attended this activity at Blackrod Primary School centred around co-designing our own woodland, in December 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communicate 2023 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Peter Kraftl gave an invited presentation at the Communicate2023 conference in Manchester on 15th November. He was talking about the Voices of the Future project - part of the UKRI Future of UK Treescapes Programme - which is aiming to examine the dis/benefits of children and young people's experiences of and learning about treescapes. The conference is the UK's leading annual conference for environmental communicators running since 2004, bringing together a diverse group of delegates each year to develop their skills, share best practice and debate latest issues in science communication, nature conservation and engaging people with the natural world (https://www.bnhc.org.uk/communicate2023). The conference was attended by over 1,000 people in person and online, and included speakers from the BBC, local and national environmental charities, and Government Departments. Peter presented in a session on translating evidence into action. He talked about three aspects of our work with children and young people: planting trees, measuring trees, and hoping with/for trees. He drew attention to the ways in which our transdisciplinary approach to co-researching with children means that the relationship between 'evidence' and 'action' is more complex and less linear - a constant and longer-term process of iteration that might lead to more hopeful ways of thinking about future treescapes and environmental futures. He also outlined the wider Programme plans for communication over the coming year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bnhc.org.uk/communicate-conference-expands-to-manchester-for-2023 |
| Description | Conversation with the Chartered College of Teaching |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a discussion with the Chartered College of Teaching about ways in which we could work together in the future to publicise our work. The toolkits and resources that we have created and the methodologies could be helpful to their members. We agreed to develop some shared work around schools involvement in future trees capes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Creation of treescape (trees and park bench) in Longford Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NOTE: This was not an event but there was no appropriate category! The Tree of Hope Youth Research group worked with Manchester City of Trees and Longford Park to plant four new trees and donate a park bench to create a treescape. The bench features a plaque composed by the group that names them and expresses their philosophy of human-tree relations ('The World is nothing without trees. The tree is we.') A representative from Trafford Council attended the planting. The bench is now used by members of the general public in the local area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Creative Writing Workshops at Oldbury Wells School, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Over a period of several months, Chris Hanley and I worked closely with Liz Roberts (Deputy Head of English) on the design and development of a new place-based scheme of work with a particular focus on local treescapes. This programme of work culminated in two days of creative workshops - led by the Shropshire-based writers, Paul Evans and Kate Innes - for all 150 students in Year 9 at Oldbury Wells School. The principal intended purpose of the workshops - which partly took place in a copse on the edge of the school grounds - was to invite the young people to both notice and imaginatively respond to an overlooked local treescape. The primary outcome was the production of original creative writing: work in which the students celebrated, for the first time, near-at-hand trees and their stories. The workshops also enabled us to develop a model - in partnership with both the teacher and the professional writers - for the way in which thinking about and with local trees might be embedded within the English curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Creative practice with trees at Forehill Primary School, Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Over 5 days from September - December 2022, Voices of the Future researchers (Elizabeth Curtis and Jo Vergunst) worked with Forehill Primary School, Aberdeen, to develop outdoor learning activities based in creative practice. Following a preparatory meeting in September, we worked with around 150 pupils from P3 to P6 (six classes in total), exploring collaborative methods in story-telling, art, history and craft to learn about trees and woods in the local area of the school. Pupils and teachers were enthusiastic and we will build on these experiences in our research with the School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Creative writing workshop led by Ruth Awolola at Creative Writing Club, Whalley Range High School: 8 March 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In this creative writing workshop led by Ruth Awolola, students developed new writing reflecting on trees and identity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discussion with The Woodland Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a discussion with the youth team at The Woodland Trust. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Discussion with a Civil Servant from DEFRA Monitoring and Evaluation, Nature for Climate Tree Programme | Natural Environment, Trees and Landscapes Directorate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We have initiated a series of discussions, begun at the UK Treescapes conference in September 2022, with a civil servant from DEFRA. He is interested in hearing the voices of young people particularly around Equality and Diversity of their monitoring strategy. In their own words (taken from an email d. 18.10.2022): ...'we are responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of the programme and whilst many of the key objectives may relate to scientific outputs such as carbon sequestration and improved biodiversity, we also want to measure societal benefits and particularly around (lack of) access to more deprived demographic groups. I wonder whether your project / the children would consider providing some insight into some of the data we should be looking at to ensure we adequately consider that within our evaluation. Following this, plans have been made to visit DEFRA in York in May and to be part of an online evaluation exercise in March/April and do a visit to a school in Manchester, also in May. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discussion with a civil servant |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We spend one hour briefing a Civil Servant who is tasked with delivering the National Education Nature Park initiative. We described the Voices of the Future project. We agreed to send the person a 2 page summary of the project to take this discussion forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-lead-the-way-in-climate-and-sustainability-education |
| Description | Discussion with the DfE Education Park initative/RHS Bridgewater |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a discussion with the DfE Nature park team, North West, who are interested in our toolkits and our work. We agreed to continue to share resources and keep in touch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Dwelling and Learning with Trees: Relational Methodologies for Researching with Children, Young People and Treescapes Workshop in European Educational Research Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was organised with colleagues (Elizabeth Curtis and Jo Vergunst) from the University of Aberdeen at the European Educational Research Association Annual Conference AERA (2023). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/28/contribution/57065 |
| Description | Engagement activity at Stretford Grammar - end of project celebration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | ilm Projection Day at the Stretford Grammar School (29th January 2024) Young people from our Film & Science clubs organised a display of their work on the 29th January in Stretford Grammar School. The event was attended by the head teachers, teachers, and parents of the young people. The Voices of future project team treated everyone with delicious food. Our project artist (Steve Pool) projected videos and still footages on multiple screens. Classroom tables and walls were turned into screens to project the work of young people through a fascinating visual display. Some of pictures from the day: Parents of the young people very much appreciated their work during afterschool clubs. We have received some impressive comments about the way the work was displayed and projected organically. At the beginning of the event, Kate invited young people to think about the work that everyone in team including young people themselves and us (voices of the future research team) did as part of film and science clubs. Young people formed their own questions and interviewed themselves and their classmates as part of reflection/evaluation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Engagement with Manchester City of Trees and Mersey Forest to develop a treescape care manifesto by children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 90 children took part in 2 manifesto building workshops to develop discussions around children's demands for physical and cultural changes to improve the quality and sustainability of treescapes in their local areas. Feedback informs the policy development around people, community and the environment for both Manchester City of Trees and Mersey Forest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Ethics as producing potential new worlds: Laser scanning the future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk presented by Prof Kate Phal and Dr Samyia Ambreen as part of "Grasping the nettle: Ethics in research with children, young people and families" at the Children and Childhood Research Group, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Exhibition in a new building - event to celebrate the opening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at launch of new Grosvenor East Building at Manchester Metropolitan University: 7 March 2023. The poster remained on display in the building for six months. Primary audience: Special guests from the City of Manchester who were invited to attend the launch of the University's new Arts building on Oxford Road. Secondary audience: The staff, students and visitors who will have seen the large text panel when using Grosvenor East and visiting Manchester Poetry Library |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Festival of the Mind |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a contribution to a regional festival in Sheffield, which consisted of a two-hour presentation and discussion, and engaged with academics and the general public. There were approximately 50 people in the audience at the festival, and the event was also projected online to an audience of approximately 300 viewers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Group discussion in a school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was a. reflective discussion with 'film club' and 'science club' members plus their teacher about the Voices of the Future project. In the course of a wide ranging discussion, the students reported how the project had developed their thinking. Tree stories were told and shared, and we went to visit the 5000 trees that the young people had planted as a result of this activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Health Determinants Research Collaboration presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Online seminar and discussion for the Health Determinants Research Collaboration, to health and public policy specialists looking to use research evidence in formulating new policy and practice in health- and social care. Focus was on using creative methods to gain authentic voice from children in environmental planning and policy making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Health Determinants Research Collaboration talk: How can online games better engage public audiences in decision making |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online webinar for HDRC about both Voices and Digital Voices of the Future projects, to explore ideas of how to better engage public audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Informal meeting with the Town and Country Planning Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | As a result of this discussion we have been asked to present at the Sounding Board meeting of the Town and Country Planning Association in June. The GIP Sounding Board meet online four times a year. It's a space for sharing updates between the members, and hearing about projects and policy in the sector from across the UK. We normally have around 15-25 people dialling in to the meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Interdisciplinary Panal Discussion on "Co-planting woodlands: Navigating Interdisciplinarity through Fieldnotes" UK Treescapes Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An interdisciplinary discussion was organised to exemplify research methodologies of the project. The project including PI (Prof Kate Pahl), CoI(s) including Prof Peter Kraftl, Dr Simon Carr, Dr Johan Siebers and RA (Dr Samyia Ambreen) held a discussion with audience around interdisciplinary ways of thinking about the child and the tree. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.uktreescapes.org/events/future-treescapes-23/ |
| Description | Invited talk to members of Green Infrastructure Partnership. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 5 June 2024, Peter Kraftl and I delivered a presentation on 'Voices to the Future' to members of the Green Infrastructure Partnership which was originally founded by Defra and which is now managed by the Town and Country Planning Association.. The principal purpose was to raise awareness - amongst a group of landscape professionals - about our project. Following a lengthy question and answer session after our talk, we received an invitation to speak to Trees for Cities in September 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited talk to members of staff at Trees for Cities. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | On 3 September 2024, Peter Kraftl and I delivered a talk on 'Voices for the Future' to members of staff at the charity, Trees for Cities. The intended purpose was to introduce the attendees to our work including the transdisciplinary, co-created methodologies underpinning our research. Multiple action points arose following the detailed conversation after our talk including the two-way sharing of resources and research findings. Medium-term plans included exploring opportunities for future collaborative funding bids and working together to lobby for changes to the national curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Keynote talk at 'Ecological Networks: Creative-Critical Approaches to the Environmental Humanities' Doctoral Workshop (University of Birmingham). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This workshop - organised by Isabel Galleymore and held at the University of Birmingham on 24 April 2024 - brought together 15 writers, scholars and art facilitators to address themes of communication, connection and collaboration in the context of contemporary environmental challenges. Funded through the AHRC-Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, the intended purpose was to introduce a new generation of postgraduate researchers - from multiple disciplines - to the 'Voices of the Future' project and the potential for transformative, transdisciplinary research in the context of the climate emergency. After my keynote talk, we had a lengthy discussion about the ways the attendees might move away from the emphasis on the 'lone researcher' by drawing upon our own model of impactful, co-created research in their professional development plans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/event/ecological-networks-creative-critical-approaches-to-the-envi... |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange visit to a Primary school in collaboration with Mersey Forest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A knowledge exchange visit, in collaboration with Mersey Forest, to Holy Trinity Primary School in Liverpool in March 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting Manchester City of Trees |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an impact related meeting to discuss the impact of the work of the Voices of the Future project on the practice within Manchester City of Trees. We noted down a number of key ways in which the project had influenced practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with DEFRA (Richard Bridge) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Richard Bridge about his involvement in the project and the impacts on his/DEFRA's work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Meeting with Kate Innes: Wednesday, 14 February 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The development of a programme of co-created activities to be held at Oldbury Wells School, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Nancy Scheerhout (Head Gardener) and Hamza Rana (Senior Volunteering Officer), National Trust, Castlefield Viaduct, Manchester: Wednesday, 7 February 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Most significant outcome/impact: The building of a partnership which will enable us to take children and young people to Castlefield Viaduct and for the work on the 'Voices of the Future' project to inform the National Trust's future development of this key urban site. As part of this process, Hamza Rana will visit Manchester Metropolitan University to take part in a planning workshop in the summer of 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Paul Evans: Friday, 16 February |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The development of a programme of co-created activities to be held at Oldbury Wells School, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Royal Forestry Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion about how our toolkits could be used by the RFS, plus plans for future collaborative activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Meeting with Sarah Wood (Forestry England) and Nature Premium Campaign |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion about how the project can support/amplify the Nature Premium Campaign |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Meeting with The Mersey Forest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a meeting to reflect on the impact of the Voices of the Future project. We discussed how the project has inputted into the Mersey Forest Strategic Plan and the effect of the work was discussed in terms of practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Meetings with Charles Nixon, Teacher of English, Stretford Grammar School: 14 & 22 November 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Meetings with Charles Nixon, Teacher of English, Stretford Grammar School: 14 & 22 November 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meetings with Ivan Wadeson, Executive Director, Manchester City of Literature, 16 February 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Following these meetings, Manchester City of Literature agreed to promote the work of 'Voices of the Future' and to explore potential international collaborations with other UNESCO cities of literature. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meetings with Osman Riaz, Teacher of English Literature, Pendleton Sixth Form College, Salford: 18 October & 25 November 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | These two meetings with with Osman Riaz, Teacher of English Literature at Pendleton Sixth Form College were attended by Dr David Cooper and Dr Chris Hanley, and helped to advance curriculum development ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meetings with Sophie Walker & Krystie Norcliffe, English teachers, Whalley Range High School: 22 October 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | These meetings with Sophie Walker & Krystie Norcliffe, English teachers, Whalley Range High School were attended by Dr Chris Hanley and Dr David Cooper. They resulted in advanced curriculum development ideas & planned programme of activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | One day event for the whole cohort of Year 8 for a school in Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Voices of the Future' Curriculum Day at Urmston Grammar School, Manchester featuring a 'carousel' of workshops on poetry, storytelling, and the science of trees.A transformative event in which the pupils explored trees and their local treescapes from multiple perspectives. The event also formed part of an ongoing dialogue with Lucy Derby (Head of English) about place-based curriculum development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Online Occasional Paper series editing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an Occasional Paper series hosted by the US based Bank Street website which is a practitioner website aimed at teachers across the globe. This was a research piece but had a global reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bankstreet.edu/research-publications-policy/occasional-paper-series/ops-50/ |
| Description | Online meeting with Simon Wicks: 19 January 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Primary audience: Simon Wicks, Deputy Editor of The Planner: the professional magazine of the Royal Town Planning Institute Secondary audience: N/A Most significant outcome/impact: The proposed writing of a series of articles for The Planner - to encourage town planners to think more creatively about place - which will feature our work on the 'Voices of the Future' project. Our work will also feed into a professional development training module that the Royal Town Planning Institute is developing in partnership with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | PACT Penrith Action for Community Transformation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | October 2024: PACT: Penrith Action for Community Transformation. Climate Change and Cumbria: how can we engage young people in environmental policy decisions?. Invited keynote speaker for the AGM of the organisation. ~100 in audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Panel on Communicating tree science in troubling times for the UK Treescapes Conference in Cardiff (June 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Nearly 30 people attended a panel delivered by Badwan, Carr, Kraftl and Rowntree on communicating tree science. The audience included a mix of academics, community forest representations and other third sector organisations. The panel sparked questions and discussions on the challenges associated with science communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Paper presentation, workshop participation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Voices of the Future project team attended the Treescapes Conference where professional practitioners and Treescapes Programme researchers exchanged ideas, findings and discussed applications of the Treescapes programme to UK conservation, education and biodiversity management of treescapes. We engaged through talks, workshops and a film of the children we worked with in the project, which was shown to the entire audience at the opening of the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Participation in 'Voices of the Future' project assembly at Stretford Grammar School, 8 November 2022. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Participation in 'Voices of the Future' project assembly to Year 8 syudents and teachers from multiple departments at Stretford Grammar School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Plenary Keynote Panel presentation Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 3. Towards a methodology of place in ethnographic research with children Abigail Hackett, Sheffield Hallam University and Anne Myrstad, University of Tromso. This keynote plenary as part of a panel on innovative methodologies brought together examples of fieldwork approaches within Voices of the Future WP3.5 with Myrstad's research in Norway. In this paper we share some propositions that have arisen through our practice as childhood researchers foregrounding place. We begin with the proposition to "listen to place" and describe how we have tried to start from this stance in our own research. We wonder, can researching with children and place offer us a way of attuning to different forms of place-knowledge, if we are willing to be open to such encounters? Secondly, we consider the importance of place and time within our research practices. We continue to experiment with how to situate small stories or moments within a long term relationship with a place, including that which cannot be literally perceived. We see this work as often requiring institutional and community memory that stretches before and beyond the life of the research project or the individual participants. Thirdly, our thinking requires a repositioning the role of data within research; spending long periods of time in and with place does not seem to equate with an aim to accumulate larger data sets. And data does not seem to be a bounded category that encompasses only visual and written materials collected from consenting participants within bounded periods of field visits. In this sense, our claims to know do not always seem to be undergirded by the heft and power of "data set". We have for a number of years tried to refine and articulate our research practice, and what it means to do research in this way, and this paper brings together these reflections. Our aim is to join up the dots for those whose work attends to small stories, place and sensory engagement, serendipitous encounters and inspirations, and long term participant observation / ethnography with a commitment to activism, community and being present / being there. We offer our own experiences and reflections to try to articulate the implications of this for knowledge systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Plenary Talk in Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference (RECE) Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A plenary talk was given based on the project work. It was titled as "Methodologies of Hope". The talk was delivered by PI (Prof Kate Pahl) and RA (Dr Samyia Ambreen). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://stummuac-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/personal/55143702_ad_mmu_ac_uk/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourced... |
| Description | Poster Exhibition on "Re-imagining Treescapes in collaboration with children and young people: interdisciplinarity in action" in UK Treescapes Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A poster exhibition was organised by PI (Prof Kate Pahl) and RA (Dr Samyia Ambreen) on different themes and work packages of the project. Through displaying A3 posters of different activities, we demonstrated ways of engaging children and young people in climate change educational activities including activities tree-planting, playing in forest school, tree-measuring, telling stories and dreaming of better futures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.uktreescapes.org/events/future-treescapes-23/ |
| Description | Presentation and Discussion with National Trust/Woodland Trust Urban Forest Accelerator |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was one of four guest speakers at the Urban Forest Accelerator Workshop (20th September 2023) hosted online by the National Trust. The talk was about how Voices of the Future have approached engagement with children and young people. The audience of 44 comprised representatives of local councils and authorities, charities and other organisations involved in planning or practice of urban tree planting, forestry industry bodies and representatives from DEFRA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at IMISCOE conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper: Traversing the local and the global: Walking in UK treescapes with global youth, presented at the IMISCOE (International Migration Network) conference in Warsaw, Poland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE) Conference - Hopeful, vulnerable literacies: Disrupting monolingualism and empowering children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk, pressented by Dr Samyia Ambreen, at the ARLE international research conference. This was hosted online, by the University of Nicosia (Cyprus) and attended by academics and policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucy.ac.cy/arle2022/ |
| Description | Presentation at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented the first major scientific outcome of the project at the BES (14th December 2023) "Is the amount and distribution of above-ground biomass of trees within UK urban parks different from those located in woodlands?". This was a well attended session at the BES (ca. 150 attendees), with a number of discussions and follow-on questions subsequent to the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at the Royal Geography Conference, London on 'Young People Act' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented an overview of the findings and implications of the research on Young People's Activism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/pages |
| Description | Presentation by young people to the Manchester Environmental Education Network (MEEN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an event hosted by the Manchester Environmental Education Network. The audience were professional practitioners, school children, Urban Town Planners and MPs as well as local government officials. The project team - which were two young people - presented on the Stretford Grammar School Film Club and Science club to an interested audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.meen.org.uk/directory/event-20231023FWPASKNN3H4Z |
| Description | Presentation in BERA (British Educational Research Association) Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Imagining for Hopeful Futures through Story Telling Based on our work with Year 3 primary school children, we talked about story telling and how does it help in re-imagining for hopeful futures. This is an individual paper presentation in a joint symposium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bera.ac.uk/conference/bera-conference-2023/programme |
| Description | Presentation in BSA (British Sociological Association) Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attending to children's inter-/intra-actions as they do trees A paper was presented about our collaborative work Year 3 children in a local primary school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26101/ac2023_abstract_book_day3.pdf |
| Description | Presentation in European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A paper titled "Woodland Methodologies: Diversifying Encounters with Children and more than Human World in a School Setting" was presented by RA (Dr Samyia Ambreen). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/28/contribution/55668 |
| Description | Presentation in European Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A paper titled "Linking literacies through stories of hope in a climate crisis" was presented in a symposium "Literary Research in Times of Crisis". This symposium was organised in collaboration from academics from Australia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/28/contribution/54937 |
| Description | Presentation to DEFRA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a formal presentation organised by the UKTreescapes team to DEFRA which included the Tree of Hope Research group. Participants included the monitoring and evaluation team (York). Participants recorded a change in their understanding of young people's relationship to Treescapes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to Forest Education Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the project to a range of members of FENE; plans for future work with members |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Public Event in Sheffield City Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A 50 minute session at a public event in Sheffield City Centre, in September 2022, which included a 4 minute film |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Reading of 'The Most Mancunian of Trees' at public launch of North Country: An Anthology of Landscape & Nature, The Storey, Lancaster: 24 November 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The reading of 'The Most Mancunian of Trees' at public launch of North Country: An Anthology of Landscape & Nature, The Storey, Lancaster: 24 November 2022 widened awareness of our Voices of the Future Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Research Away Talk "Voices of the Future: Re-imagining Treescapes with children & Young People" in Education and Social and Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk was given to colleagues at the University by PI (Prof Kate Pahl) and RA (Dr Samyia Ambreen) about the project. We exemplify our work and how it meets interdisciplinary research agenda of the institution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Research introduction and ethics activity (Church of England: School of Resurrection) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | We introduced our project "Treescapes" to children in a classroom. We discussed our research plans and ethical protocols with approximately 35 children. We read participant information sheets and consent forms with children and invited to take part in the project as co-researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Research overview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A visual document prepared by Prof Abigail Hackett, which was given to the families participating in the research and to the Head of Children's Services. The intention is to present the findings to Children's Services team later in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Researchers night |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a 'Researchers Night' for the 'WILD' exhibition. Members of the public attended and asked questions about the Voices of the Future project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/ |
| Description | Researching in school: messy methodologies in co-production |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk by Dr Samyia Ambreen, presented at the Theory and Methodology Research Group, at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University in July 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Royal Academy of Engineering Digital and Physical Infrastructures Community of Interest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Peter Kraftl has been invited to join the Royal Academy of Engineering's 'Digital and Physical Infrastructures' Community of Interest. Feeding into the work of the National Engineering Policy Committee, the new Community of Interest is described as "a platform to bring together an impressive cross sector group including Academy Fellows across industry and academia, partners from Professional Engineering Institutions and wider expertise from the built environment, data and AI, and infrastructure systems. Together this group will help the National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) to bring expert insights to the challenges posed by connected digital and physical infrastructures" to national Government departments, local authorities, and industry. Peter attended the launch of the Community of Practice at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on 26th January. Building on several UKRI-funded projects on children and young people, and their experiences of and learning about environmental processes, resources and challenges, Peter advocated for policy influence in two areas. Firstly, engaging children and young people in creating infrastructures that are inclusive for diverse children and young people. Importantly, the Community's Terms of Reference explicitly reference the inclusion of children, young people and other groups often marginalised in evidence and policy about infrastructures. Peter outlined priority areas within this: augmenting efforts to create child-friendly infrastructures, reflecting the needs of diverse children in terms of their rights, play, health, engagement with 'natural' environments, mobilities and education; advocating (and further improving) 'what works' in terms of children and young people's involvement in decision-making on infrastructures; ensuring children and young people, and their needs, are understood in relation to other generations - i.e. in intergenerational, future-proofed infrastructures. Secondly, and more broadly (given the weighting of the Community's membership is necessarily towards engineers), the role of the social sciences, and arts & humanities, as part of interdisciplinary evidence for informing policy on digital and physical infrastructures. This could include: cutting-edge methods for public involvement/engagement with research/policy; approaches to visualising/communicating key message/examples of best practice; integration of qualitative and quantitative datasets from relevant domains - for example applied public health research; drawing in experts on behaviour change; and far more besides. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | School Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk given by a member of the team about the different trees there were in the world to 90 Year 3 children in a Primary School in Old Trafford. The children were interested to understand about different trees and their names. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | School Assembly on Research ethics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Year 3 assembly on research ethics, children's voice and consent |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | School Visit - Assembly at Blackrod Primary School to introduce our project to the staff and students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School Visit - Assembly at Blackrod Primary School to introduce our project to the staff and students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | School Visit: Seymour Park Primary School Manchester: Going Underground |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School visit to Seymour Park Primary School to run activities with Year 5 children about understanding how much of a tree is underground. Led by Khawla Badwan, Simon Carr, Peter Kraftl (project CoI's). Focus of the activity was particularly on identifying how much the roots of a tree comprise, and how they are important for the health and longevity of the tree. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | School Visit: Seymour Park Primary School, Manchester, July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School visit on 14th July to Seymour Park Primary School, Manchester to talk about trees and carbon. Activities led by Khawla Badwan, Simon Carr, Peter Lawrence, Jennifer Rowntree. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | School Visit: Stretford Grammar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School assembly with all of Year 8 in one of the most socially and ethnically-diverse secondary schools in the UK. Key members of the project team (PI: Kate Pahl, Co-I's Simon Carr, David Cooper, Christopher Hanley, project PDRA Samiya Ambreen and project partner (Katie Jones, City of Trees) introduced the project to explore opportunities to partner with the school in delivering the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | School visits (Woodside Primary School, Aberdeen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Around 100 P4 and P5 pupils at Woodside Primary School were supported by Voices of the Future researchers in learning about trees and preparing for a new 'Wee Forest' to be grown in their school field. Over four days in March 2022, researchers Ed Schofield, Elizabeth Curtis and Jo Vergunst: - introduced children to soil testing techniques including composition, pH, colour and depth. - engaged with them in tree monitoring on a recently planted hedge - introduced tree rings and dendrochronology - brought in University of Aberdeen microscopes to their school and enabled the children to view, record and learn about seeds and pollen. School teachers reported positive outcomes from pupils in terms of attitudes to science and future jobs as a scientist, as well as their skills in scientific measuring and use of equipment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Series of 3 Workshops at Pitsmoor Adventure Playground |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was a series of 3 workshops run by Dr Clare Rishbeth and Mr Steve Pool, at Pitsmoor Adventure Playground in August 2022. The workshops involved around 30 children, as well as members of the local community and MA students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Series of meetings with Lucy Derby, Head of English, Urmston Grammar School: 19 October 2022; 7 December 2022; 20 February 2023; 6 March 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This series of meetings established a relationship with Urmston Grammar School, advanced curriculum development ideas & planned programme of activity for 'Voices of the Future: English Curriculum Day' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Series of meetings with Marion Farnworth (Early Years Lecturer) and Suzanne Toole (Science Lecturer), Bolton College: 23 November 2022; 20 December 2022; 7 February 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A series of meetings with Marion Farnworth (Early Years Lecturer) and Suzanne Toole (Science Lecturer) at Bolton College, led by Dr Chris Hanley and Dr David Cooper led to an advance in curriculum development ideas and planning of programme of activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2022,2023 |
| Description | Series of online meetings with Liz Roberts from Oldbury Well School, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Most significant outcome/impact: Initial meeting with Liz Roberts (Deputy Head of English) to discuss a possible collaboration building on our previous work with secondary schools in Manchester. Liz became aware of 'Voices of the Future' through the Chartered College of Teaching |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Series of planning & reflection meetings with Marion Farnworth, Early Years Lecturer, Bolton College: 21 March 2023; 13 June 2023; 26 June 2023; and 22 November 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Primary audience: Staff in Department of Early Years at FE college in Greater Manchester Secondary audience: Students at Bolton College Most significant outcome/impact: Advanced curriculum development ideas, planned programmes of activity, and critically reflected on that activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Stakeholder workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an event which disseminated the results of the Voices of the Future project to our main stakeholders. It was attended by DEFRA, Natural England, the Tree Council, The Mersey Forest, The Chartered College of Teaching, the National Trust, Trees for Cities, Climate Manchester, Wild Sheffield and the National Forest. There were a number of discussion circles and a final panel at the end. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk at the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action, Durham. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk about the 'Voices of the Future' project with a focus on Co-production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/sociology/events/csjca-connecting-communities-for-a-su... |
| Description | Talk to Creative Writing Club, Whalley Range High School: 9 March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | After this talk to 15 year 7-11 students, the students agreed to become participants on the 'Voices of the Future' project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk to Early Years students at Bolton College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Following this talk to early year students at Bolton College, students agreed to become participants in the 'Voices of the Future' project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talking head video on Voices of the Future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Talking-Head' video recorded by Treescapes Programme team at Treescapes Conference, London, September 2022 to summarise the Voices of the Future project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLu8JsHub24&list=PLWmemRXt2xL0U80Kx28H-u9cvkwPgnCK9&index=7 |
| Description | Thinking about future & Listening to Hopeful Stories (Blackrod Primary School) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 91 children and 5 teachers attended this activity at Blackrod Primary School. The activities focused on thinking about future & listening to hopeful stories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Tree of Hope Youth Research Group tree planting at Longford Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Working with Manchester City of Trees, Trafford Council and Beechfield Industries, the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group planted four trees as a legacy of the project. A member of Trafford Council joined us for the event and Manchester City of Trees issued a press release. During the event, there was also dialogue with attendees about the importance of engaging refugee-background young people in caring for treescapes, and particularly learning from their knowledge and experience. We are now working with Trafford Council and Friends of Longford Park to install a park bench with a plaque to promote the project and encourage associated practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Tree planting, monitoring and a field trip with Woodside Primary School, Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Around 100 P2, P5 and P7 pupils at Woodside Primary School, Aberdeen, were supported by Voices of the Future researchers (Elizabeth Curtis, Ed Schofield and Jo Vergunst) in planting and monitoring a new 'Wee Forest', building on previous engagement work carried out with the school. This included working with the Aberdeen City Council Ranger Service. The researchers engaged with the children to plant the trees on 16 March. On 4 May we developed activities around pollen analysis involving identification of pollen grains from images and maths work. On 21 June we took a group of 30 P7 pupils to the forest and hill of Bennachie in Aberdeenshire to look at historic and current uses of trees and forests. On 28 September we worked with the children to identify, measure and record the growth of a sample of trees in the Wee Forest. Teachers reported very good levels of engagement from the pupils which we will develop in future activities with Woodside School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Trees and Us Activity (Blackrod Primary School) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 91 children in Years 3/4 and 5 class teachers at Blackrod Primary School attended for an activity entitled "Trees and Us" on 11th October 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Treescapes Creative Writing workshop at Bolton College led by poet and performer, Ruth Awolola: 27 March 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Most significant outcome/impact: Development of original creative writing - focusing on trees and treescapes - by students who lack confidence as a result of failing their English GCSE in the previous academic year. Crucially, the students reported that they drew upon the ideas explored during the workshop when resitting their English GCSE in May 2023. More particularly, the workshop helped the students to construct an argument - a task set on the English Language Paper 2 - about the use of public transport versus private cars. In addition, Awolola's workshop gave one of the students (who struggles with anxiety) sufficient confidence to perform their promising creative writing at a local open mic event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Treescapes field trip with Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On December 6 2022 Voices of the Future researchers (Jo Vergunst and consultant Colin Shepherd) organised a field trip for Countryside Management students from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), visiting Wantonwells Farm in Aberdeenshire. Students had the opportunity to view an example of an integrated 'treescape' and farming business in which growing trees for timber, nature conservation and livestock farming worked together in the landscape. The business owners had the chance to discuss their practices with the students and researchers. This will form the basis for research work with the students and the farm in the coming months. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Treescapes: voices of the future (Poster Presentation) presented at The SES Midsummer Sustainability Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a poster presentation, presented by Dr Samyia Ambreen, at the SES Midsummer Sustainability Festival. This festival was hosted in the Business School at Manchester Metropolitan University on 17th June 2022, and was attended by a range of audiences including community members, policy makers and undergraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event/action-for-sustainability-a-student-community-staff-mi... |
| Description | UK Treescapes conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This was a national conference, hosted by the UK Treescapes programme. Our team attended together with two refugee-background young people. They gave a talk and we also gave a talk about the project. We held a stall about our project and we were able to talk to stakeholders at lunchtime, including people from DEFRA, the National Forest, the Tree council, Trees for Cities and the Black Engagement Network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UKTreescapes conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the conference of the UKTreescapes programme. It was attended by a number of key stakeholders including DEFRA and Scottish Forestry organisations. The Voices of the Future project ran workshops which explored experiential approaches to treescapes and also a child-led typology of urban treescapes. At the opening, a film was shown which represented the voices of the children and young people in the Voices of the Future project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.uktreescapes.org/events/future-treescapes-24-11-13-june-2024/ |
| Description | University of Sheffield Sustainability Talks: professionals working in sustainability and green-related careers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This event was hosted by the university to encourage students to consider a range of green careers. I presented work on Young People Act to support discussion of routes into paid and non-paid work in climate and nature. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Video for CO26 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk recorded by the UKTreescapes team for Cop 2026. It was recorded and sent out and also placed on a number of websites. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OmwK35PqEI |
| Description | Video made for the Engage conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a video made about co-production for the ENGAGE 2021 conference in December 2021, by Professor Kate Pahl. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/engage-2021 |
| Description | Video produced for COP 26 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This was a video made by Professor Kate Pahl and Dr Simon Carr about the Voices of the Future project, which was hosted by the UKIR's Cop 26 channel and subseqently placed on the UK Treescapes project page . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.uktreescapes.org/projects/voices-of-the-future/ |
| Description | Visit to Bolton College: 13 June 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Most significant outcome/impact: Visit to Bolton College to discuss woodwork (planters, bird tables etc) that had been made by Carpentry and Joinery students as part of Marion Farnworth's efforts to 'green the college campus': an initiative that was inspired by her participation in the 'Voices of the Future' project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit to Seymour Grove Allotments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A team of youth researchers visited community orchard and apiary teams at Seymour Grove Allotment to engage in dialogue about different knowledge and practices. Discussions held re opportunities for further engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit to project from Manchester City of Trees |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to project by a member of the Manchester City of Trees team to learn about youth research, followed by discussion of future collaboration opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Voices of the Future: English Curriculum Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 'Voices of the Future: English Curriculum Day' engaged with year 7 students and the teachers in the English Department of a local school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Voices of the future: Collaborating with children and young people to re-imagine treescapes - presentation at UK-Consortium on Sustainability Research Symposium on Climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A talk presented By Prof Kate Pahl and Dr Samyia Ambreen, at the UK-Consortium on Sustainability Research Symposium on Climate change: the contribution of UK universities to addressing climate change from a sustainability perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | What can we learn about climate activism led by young people |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A blog post from the Department of Landscape Architecture which summarises the key findings from our work with young people engaged in activism work, and highlights the key points for practice. It provides an introduction and link to the Young People Act resource. After engaging with the blog, we have distributed 250 copies of the resource nationally, and 24 downloads of it from our digital platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/landscape/news/what-can-we-learn-inclusive-climate-activism-led-young-pe... |
| Description | Windermere Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Can video games save the planet? Invited headline presentation at a public science festival with ~100 people in the audience. This introduced many of the themes that have been explored within both Voices and Digital Voices of the Future, and I was approached by a number of members of the audience to get more information about both projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshops at Pitsmoor adventure playground |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of 8 visual arts and music workshops at Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, engaging young people, families and playground users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | seminar at Tampere University Finland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar sharing approaches and emerging findings from Voices of the Future. Particular emphasis on methodologies for participatory and coproduced research with young children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | seminar at University of Helsinki Finland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar to University of Helsinki academics and PGR students, with a focus on interdisciplinary working and methodologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | toolkit development day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a workshop aimed at members of the stakeholder advisory group, including Mersey Forest and Manchester City of Trees, together with teacher trainers and practitioners, to develop toolkits for the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |