Communicate 2023: Together for Nature – Online Speakers

Find out more about the online / hybrid speakers at Communicate: Together for Nature on the 14th, 15th and 16th November 2023.

Jo Burnham

Jo is the Marketing Campaigns Manager for Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival, and a freelance marketing consultant and publications manager. […]

Nicky Hawkins

Nicky is a framing and insight consultant at Heard. Session: Framing and audience insights Strand: National policy and national context […]

Mike Clemence

Mike is the Engagement Manager for Ipsos Trends & Foresight. Session: Audience insights: what do the UK public think about […]

Anna Jones

Anna is a rural affairs journalist, author, broadcaster, and television producer. Session: Farming and the Media – stories and voices […]

Jamila Daley-Jeffers

Jamila is a Fundraising & Income Development Consultant and Founder of Tabitha’s People. Session: Working remotely and managing distributed teams […]

Mohammed Afridi

Mohammed is the Director of Organising at the Civic Power Fund. Session: Community Organising and Systems Change Strand: Engaging people […]

Sotez Chowdhury

Sotez is the Director of Communities and Networks at Friends of the Earth. Session: Community Organising and Systems Change Strand: […]

Hannah Martin

Hannah is an organiser, campaigner and Co-Executive Director at Green New Deal. Session: Community Organising and Systems Change Strand: Engaging […]

Solitaire Townsend

Solitaire is Co-founder & Chief Solutionist at Futerra. Session: Closing Keynote Strand: Engaging people Where: Woburn House, London / Hybrid […]

Natalie Lam

Natalie is a Senior Account Manager at Greenhouse Communications. Session: Working with influencers Strand: Partnerships Where: M Shed, Bristol / […]

Rebecca Roberts

Rebecca is Founder of Thread & Fable and a communications professional, specialising in youth audiences.  Session: Creating effective content by, for, […]

Kalpana Arias

Kalpana is a technologist, urban greening activist, gardener and food growing educator, writer, speaker and the founder of Nowadays On […]

Immy Robinson

Immy is co-lead of The Relationships Project. Session: Relationship-centred practices Strand: Our people Where: Online When: 15:00 – 15:45, Wednesday […]

Megan Reitz

Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School. Session: Harnessing Activism Energy in staff and […]

Lorna O’Neill

Lorna is a Communications Consultant and Founder of Surge Communications. Session: Communication and the cost of living crisis Strand: Engaging […]

Joseph Bull

Joseph is an ecologist, conservation scientist and practitioner: currently Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of […]

Luke Tryl

Luke is UK Director at More in Common. Session: Communicating across the divide Strand: National policy and national context Where: […]

Timandra Harkness

Timandra is a writer, broadcaster and presenter. Session: Communicating across the divide Strand: National policy and national context Where: Woburn […]

Shannon Walker

Shannon is the Founder of Social Disruption. Session: Closing keynote Strand: Partnerships Where: M Shed, Bristol / Hybrid – streamed […]

Danielle Mulder

Danielle is a Net Zero specialist and BBC Group Director of Sustainability. Session: Communicating our Biodiversity Impact Strand: Partnerships Where: […]

Humphrey Lloyd

Humphrey is a farmer operating at the market garden Three Hares Organics. Session: Farming and the Media – stories and […]

Kirsty Sedgman

Kirsty is an award-winning cultural studies scholar at University of Bristol. Session: Communicating across the divide Strand: National policy and […]

Jacqui Fortnum

Jacqui is a Senior Consultant for The Audience Agency. Session: Rural and Suburban audiences – research and segmentation tools Strand: […]

Alex Fearon

Alex is a creative email marketing specialist and founder of Maybe Later. Session: Kill the newsletter – Why our approach […]

Phoebe Weston

Phoebe is a biodiversity writer for the Guardian. Session: Communicating our Biodiversity Impact Strand: Partnerships Where: Woburn House, London / […]

George Rhodes

George is the Director of All Able and Digital Accessibility Lead at University of Westminster. Session: Accessibility Surgery Strand: Engaging […]

Ben Watson

Ben is the Director of All Able and Digital Accessibility Lead at University College London. Session: Accessibility Surgery Strand: Engaging […]

Georgia Mann

Georgia is a Consultant at All Able. Session: Accessibility Surgery Strand: Engaging people Where: M Shed, Bristol / Hybrid – […]

Adam Ogilvie

Adam is CEO of the Leeds-based environmental education charity, Meanwood Valley Urban Farm. Session: Communication and the cost of living […]

Dimitri Houtart

Dimitri is the BBC Rural Affairs Champion & BBC Audio Rural Affairs, Food, Natural History & Environment Editor Session: Farming […]

Jude Fransman

Jude is an academic, policy analyst and community activist based at the Open University. Session: Relationship-centred practices Strand: Our people […]

Nia Crouch

Nia is the Engagement Manager at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum. Session: Communication case study – From the Ash(es): flipping the […]

Oscar Adams

Oscar is Project Manager for the Silk Wood Community Planting Project at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum. Session: Communication case study […]

Emily Burgin

Emily is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum. Session: Communication case study – From the Ash(es): […]

Susanna Bayliss

Susanna is the Interpretation Officer for Westonbirt, The National Arboretum. Session: Communication case study – From the Ash(es): flipping the […]

Helen Featherstone

Helen is the Head of Public Engagement at the University of Bath’s Public Engagement Unit. Session: Relationship-centred practices Strand: Our […]

Mark Funnell

Mark is Communications and Campaigns Director at the National Trust. Session: In Conversation with Steph Spyro – Environment Editor, The […]

Trudy Harrison MP

Trudy is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Natural Environment and Land Use) in the Department for Environment, Food […]

Tom Richards

Tom is a co-organiser for Filmmakers For Future: Wildlife (FF:W). Session: Are we being extractive? Learning to Decolonise our communications […]

Dr Nick White

Dr Nick White is the Principal Advisor on Net Gain at Natural England. Session: Communicating biodiversity net gain Strand: National […]

Dr Amy Clarke

Amy is the Deputy Director of The Centre for Hate Studies based at the University of Leicester. Session: Rural and […]

Rhian Williams

Rhian is Founder of the PR & Marketing agency, Be Better Known. Session: 10 ways to improve the impact of […]

Steve Simpson

Steve is the Professor of Marine Biology & Global Change at the University of Bristol. Session: Communicating our Biodiversity Impact […]

Birgitta Gatersleben

Birgitta is Professor of Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey. Session: Social science and the Biodiversity Crisis Strand: Social […]

Dr Melissa Marselle

Melissa is a Lecturer of Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey and a core member of the Environmental Psychology […]

Natalie Middleton

Natalie is Marketing Officer for Bristol Zoological Society. Session: Working with influencers Strand: Partnerships Where: M Shed, Bristol / Hybrid […]

Mohammed Dhalech

Mohammed is a PhD candidate in ‘Race and Rurality’ at the University of Leicester. Session: Rural and Suburban audiences – […]

Jonny Keeling

Jonny is Head of the BBC Natural History Unit. Session: Opening welcome Strand: National context Where: M Shed, Bristol When: […]

Shaunagh Duncan

Shaunagh is Oatly’s Head of Sustainability for Europe and International Markets. Session: In Conversation with Shaunagh Duncan Strand: National context […]

Sarah West

Sarah is a professor specialising in citizen science at the University of York, and Director of SEI York. Session: Moving […]

Dr Laura Fogg Rogers

Laura is Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of the West of England (UWE). Session: Rural […]

Pete Williams

Pete is the Head of PR for the Soil Association. Session: Farming and the Media – stories and voices Strand: […]

Lydia German

Lydia is the Senior Content and Campaigns Officer at Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Session: Creating effective content by, for and with […]

Ellie Sherlock

Ellie is Communications Officer for Manchester Climate Change Agency. Session: Learning from the region Strand: National context and national policy […]

Alan Wright

Alan is Head of Campaigns and Communications at The Wildlife Trusts for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. Session: Learning from […]

Rebecca Maxted

Rebecca is a Producer for BBC Audio North and the Creative Lead of Let It Grow from BBC Radio 2 […]

Jason Williams

Jason, aka ‘Cloud Gardener’, is the Garden Media Guild Awards 2022 Social Media Communicator of The Year. Session: Learning from […]

Peter Kraftl

Pete is a Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Chair in Human Geography at the […]

Connor Davies

Connor is an Engagement and Learning Presenter at Bristol Zoological Society. Session: Creating effective content by, for and with young people […]

Ellen Evans

Ellen is Editor of Blue Peter, with 25 years’ experience in television and digital content production. Session: Creating effective content by, […]

Patrick Devine-Wright

Patrick is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Exeter and Director of the £6.25m ESRC-funded ACCESS network. Session: […]

Simon Garrett

Simon is Environment Engagement Lead at Nature Positive. Session: Motivations and how people make decisions Strand: Social science Where: M […]

Anna Woolman

Anna is a Science Engagement and Communication Specialist working in the Environment Agency’s Chief Scientist’s Group. Session: Harnessing Activism Energy […]

Katherine Wingate

Katherine is Senior Adviser in Biodiversity Net Gain (Stakeholder Engagement) at Natural England. Session: Communicating biodiversity net gain Strand: National context […]

Polly Allen

Polly is the Digital Marketing Manager at Media Trust. Session: 10 ways to improve the impact of short-form video content […]

Valerie Leisten

Valerie is Project Manager for the Weston Communicating Climate programme at Media Trust. Session: Kill the newsletter – Why our […]

Jacob Burley

Jacob is a presenter, writer, and film-maker from the north of England. Session: Working remotely and managing distributed teams Strand: […]

Pauline Kyalo

Pauline is a Kenyan wildlife filmmaker who was an assistant producer for Wildlife Direct in Kenya before coming to the […]

Itamar Lilienthal (Ita)

Ita is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist, biodesigner, author, architect, and researcher. Session: Ecological Technologies: Building Planetary Solidarity Strand: Engaging people Where: […]

Scott Hill Guarani

Scott works in the areas of indigenous audiovisual communication as a photographer, filmmaker and a DJ. Session: Ecological Technologies – […]

Callie Rojewski

Callie is the Chief Marketing Officer of Cyber Collective, an organisation dedicated to translating complex topics around cyber security, data […]

Dr Saira Ali

Saira is a Landscape Architect, and Team Leader of Bradford Council’s Landscape Design & Conservation Team. Session: Communication and the […]

Sarah Jackson

Sarah is the Green Infrastructure Programme Manager at Bath & North East Somerset Council. Session: Audience insights: what do the UK […]

Dr Julia Baker

Julia is a Technical Director of Nature Services at Mott MacDonald. Session: Communicating biodiversity net gain Strand: National context and national […]

Simeon Rose

Simeon is Brand Director at Faith In Nature and Co-creator of Nature on the Board. Session: Motivations and how people […]

Jane Dawson

Jane is a PhD researcher at UWE Bristol and University of Bristol, considering anti-extractive international screen production with a focus […]

Charlotte Zamboni

Charlotte is the Director of Marketing and Culture at Global Action Plan. Session: How to use AI tools to improve […]

Rachel Parkes

Rachel is the Head of Nature at Greenhouse Communications. Session: Communicating our Biodiversity Impact Strand: Partnerships Where: Woburn House, London […]

Roger Harrabin

Roger is an independent journalist / speaker / moderator, who pioneered environment and energy reporting for the BBC for more […]