Press and Talks
2026
RIBA South West Honeygar farm
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2025
Introduction to Nature-Positive Business - Talk at Belmont Estate
Joined Biodiversity in Practice Landscape Institute Group
Panellist for Conscious Cities Bath
Urban Ecology Presentation to Rise Collective
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2024
Podcast The Rest Is Just Noise -Urban Soundscape book launch with Usue Ruiz
Disrupt Magazine article - At the Intersection of Landscape Architecture, Climate Resilience, and Collaborative Design with Sarah Jones-Morris
Chair/host, LISW /Festival of Nature roundtable on BNG skills
Keynote speaker at the RIBA South West Awards
Chair at ACD / JTP Engagement Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work event
Present at Landscape Institute South West webinar on Climate Action Plans for Landscape Practices.
ACD Lead author, Engagement Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work
Property Week, Closing the gap between developers and communities
New Civil Engineer, Riba publishes guidance promoting stakeholder engagement throughout development lifecycles
RIBA Plan of Work: how the new Engagement Overlay can support architects
Contributor to Urban Soundscapes: A Guide to Listening for Landscape Architecture and Urban Design by Usue Ruiz
2023
Panellist for Delivering Panellist at Future Cities at Expo Sunderland
Chair at ACD Conversation Lab Bristol
Speaker at Fit for the Future Conference, Down to Earth
Presentation to Agile Property and Barefoot Architects on Building with Nature
Green Infrastructure Strategy Guidelines to Bristol Green Capital Presentation
Roundtable debate at The Economist Sustainability Week 2023
Visiting lecture for University of West of England
Cohost the Urban Greening Factor presentation with Landspace Institute South West
2022
How can Green Infrastructure Support Public Policy and Local Priorities? Building with Nature
Your Place Curriculum interview, Placed
Learning from Design Review with Juliet Bidgood
Tour of Bristol Housing with Nash Partnership,
Steering Committee Group member for Building Health Lab with Erasmus
Access and Active Leisure in a Time of Pandemic: Tales of Two Cities and podcast
International Women's Day: the 137 most influential women in Bristol right now
Futurebuild, London
Building with Nature Assessors Forum Speaker
Host and chair a series of three training workshops with Design West as part of Green Horizons 2.
2021
LI webinar chair on circular economy
Pineapple Awards Judge 2021
TRADA Judge for Riverside Student Competition
LI Awards Roundtable with Usue Ruiz
Chair Thinking with Ears LISW
Shape my City, 2021 with Design West
Footprint Cocreation with Igloo Regeneration
2020
Co-chair of Annual Association of Collaborative Design Conference
Panellist at Futurescape Pro Landscaper on Diversity
Pro Landscaper Magazine article
Interview on BBC Essex on the Importance of Shade
Judge for the Landscape Institute Awards
National Design Guide Panellist
Back to Nature Workshops with KWMC
Judge for the Developer Pineapple Awards
RTPI SW Design Seminar
Podcast with Knowle West Media Centre
2019
University of Gloucestershire award judge
Presenter at Frome Architecture Club
Interview with the Architecture Centre
Shape my City facilitator
Chair LISW AGM/Conference
Chair LISW event on Design Review
Panellist at Bristol Civic Society Event
Facilitator at Making it Work(shop)
Speaker & Panellist at IFLA World Congress, Norway
Judge and Chair of LI Awards
Future Cities: Greening Bristol
CIEEM In Practice Journal Article
Candidate for LI Presidency (2nd)
2018
Panellist at RIBA London Event
Interview: Leading Women in Design
University of Gloucestershire award judge
Valuing Landscape Conference
Shape my City facilitator
NHS Forest Conference
Digital Placemaking 2
University of Gloucestershire lecture
2017
Landscape Institute/Public Health England
University of Gloucestershire award judge
Digital Placemaking 1
Bristol Healthy Cities Week
Interview: Calvium publication
University of Gloucestershire award judge
52 Ideas for Bristol @StrideTreglown
Teaching
2024 - on going
Part-time lecturer and researcher at University of Gloucestershire, Landscape Architecture
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2024
Guest crit at the Welsh School of Architecture
Associate lecturer BathSpa University Architecture Codesign module
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Publications and Research
2026
A citizen-led project, led by the University of Gloucestershire, in partnership with Visit West and others, exploring and defining what makes quiet, nature-rich urban spaces meaningful, accessible and restorative. This project was supported by a grant from the Ecological Citizen(s) Network+, an EPSRC-funded Network (EP/W020610/1).
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2025
Engaging Design Tools for Design Practices Urging New Forms of Citizenships by Laura Ferrarello and Robert Phillips - Bristol Soundwalks is used as an example, with an interview Link to free download here
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2024
Urban Soundscapes: A Guide to Listening for Landscape Architecture and Urban Design by Usue Ruiz: Case Study on Bristol Soundwalks
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Engagement Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work lead author with Association of Collaborative Design, RIBA and Sustrans
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2019
CIEEM In Practice - Parish Green Infrastructure Strategies with Burton Reid Associates
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2016 - ongoing
Bristol Soundwalks Hush City Ambassador for the UK - Bristol, Bath, London, Birmingham. Includes mention in academic paper Citizens as smart, active sensors for a quiet and just city and Bristol Soundwalks