Placements

The Valuing Nature Programme is funding placements to support the Programme's goal of building an interdisciplinary research community, capable of working across the natural, biological and social sciences and arts and humanities, and of linking researchers to businesses, policymakers and practitioners. 

The one to three month placements will enable researchers to work in a new disciplinary, institutional or applied setting, and to produce outputs which can be shared with the Valuing Nature community. 

The successful applicants for 2016 are listed below.

Natasha Bhatia

  • Placement Title - Valuing the impact of storm surges on society and human welfare in terms of the cultural services provided by estuarine flood alleviation sites
  • Home Organisation - University of Hull - Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies
  • Host Organisation - Hull University Business School

Amy Binner

  • Placement Title - From valuing nature to policies and decision making: Co-developing and implementing a 25 year planning tool for the natural environment
  • Home Organisation - University of Exeter
  • Host Organisation - Defra

Dan Bloomfield

  • Placement Title - Cornwall Council and the University of Exeter: maximising the human health and wellbeing value of nature in a local government context
  • Home Organisation - University of Exeter
  • Host Organisation - Cornwall Council

Clément Feger

  • Placement Title - A ‘rapid context diagnostic’ on organizational, political and institutional factors affecting use of ecosystem services research in decisions and impact on outcomes
  • Home Organisation - None
  • Host Organisation - University of Cambridge & WWF

Laurence Jones

  • Placement Title - Integrating environmental, social and health data in Wales to inform and support innovative policy implementation by Welsh Government
  • Home Organisation - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  • Host Organisation -  Welsh Government

Joseph Kenworthy

  • Placement Title - Valuing coastal services: Stressor induced impacts, tipping points and societal wellbeing
  • Home Organisation - University of St Andrews - School of Biology
  • Host Organisation - University of St Andrews - Environmental Economics Research Group

Charlie Langan

  • Placement Title - Assessing and implementing a natural capital approach for Scottish estate management
  • Home Organisation - University of Aberdeen
  • Host Organisation - The MacRobert Trust

Sarah Papworth

  • Placement Title - Valuing nature: how do conservation decision-makers choose what to save and how to save it?
  • Home Organisation - Royal Holloway, University of London - School of Biological Sciences
  • Host Organisation - Royal Holloway, University of London - Department of Psychology

David Robinson

  • Placement Title - Valuing Soil Change in Natural Capital assessments
  • Home Organisation - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  • Host Organisation - Bangor University

Eirini Saratsi

  • Placement Title - Investigating & linking tangible and intangible forms of heritage of urban green spaces to better embed them in the policy and practice of valuing nature
  • Home Organisation - University of Kent
  • Host Organisation - Historic England

Timothy Wilkinson

  • Placement Title - Exploring biodiversity values in the Somerset Levels with ‘ecological entrepreneurs’
  • Home Organisation - University of Exeter
  • Host Organisation - RSPB

Cheryl WIllis

  • Placement Title - Determining the Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) on Cultural Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being
  • Home Organisation - University of Exeter
  • Host Organisation - Plymouth Marine Laboratory