Amanda Bryan

Fellow’s Profile

Amanda Bryan

Fellow’s Profile

Amanda Bryan

Attracting Young People into Forestry Careers

Fellowship

Themes

Focus

Growing the forestry workforce through improving young people's understanding of forestry.

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Fellowship year

2023

Locality

Scotland

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Biography

I am a part-time lecturer in forestry at the Scottish School of Forestry and Executive Director of the Scottish Forestry Trust, a charitable organisation that supports research, education and training in the forestry sector across the UK.

My Fellowship aims to address the current shortfall in the forestry workforce in the UK which poses a risk to forestry and woodland contributing effectively to climate change mitigation and resilience. We are currently failing to meet our woodland creation targets and at the same time we continue to import 80% of our timber requirements Ð this is not a sustainable picture. In short we need to attract more young people into the forestry sector at a time when we see the number of new entrants falling.

My Fellowship aims to understand how initiatives in the USA, specifically in Michigan and Wisconsin, have helped to embed forestry education across the school curriculum and to pilot lessons learned back in Scotland in the first instance. The intention is to ensure that all young people understand the benefits of forestry and the range of career opportunities that exist in the sector.

Activity

editorial

July 2023 Fellow update: Amanda Bryan

Former Head of the School of Forestry, Amanda Bryan (CF 2023) has appeared in Scottish Press & Journal, a Scottish news website. The article states that as part of her Fellowship next April Amanda will visit Michigan and Wisconsin where projects have embedded forestry education across the school curriculum. Amanda will be investigating whether an American-style scheme work in the Highlands and if linking schools to forests could help tackle a workforce shortage in the forestry industry.

By Amanda Bryan, 2023

Acknowledgements

LEAF K-12 Program UWSP, Huron Pines, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Project Learning Tree, Michigan Farm Bureau

Disclaimer

All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

Activity

editorial

July 2023 Fellow update: Amanda Bryan

Former Head of the School of Forestry, Amanda Bryan (CF 2023) has appeared in Scottish Press & Journal, a Scottish news website. The article states that as part of her Fellowship next April Amanda will visit Michigan and Wisconsin where projects have embedded forestry education across the school curriculum. Amanda will be investigating whether an American-style scheme work in the Highlands and if linking schools to forests could help tackle a workforce shortage in the forestry industry.

By Amanda Bryan, 2023

Acknowledgements

LEAF K-12 Program UWSP, Huron Pines, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Project Learning Tree, Michigan Farm Bureau

Disclaimer

All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

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