By Harvey Tweats, 2024
Natural environment
About this theme
This theme covers topics relating to protecting, restoring, enhancing and caring for our natural environment. It is one of our current programmes for Fellowships, launched in 2023, and has been developed in consultation with our environment working group. Fellows’ stories.
A project that Leanne was working on that began with a simple question “How can we green one square mile in Central London?” has been published in Elsevier’s Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment.
By Leanne Werner, 2025
Henry McGhie (CF 2020) hosted a webinar with the Latvian Museum Association on promoting peaceful, resilient communities through museums and libraries, drawing on his Churchill Fellowship research.
By Henry McGhie, 2025
As part of his Churchill Fellowship, Ross Watson travelled to the Balkans to see how four countries collaborate to remove invasive non-native plants along the 1000km Sava River. In Serbia’s Zasavica reserve, he found donkeys and horses grazing semi-ferally on invasive plants – turning a major environmental problem into prized products like milk, cheese, and soap. His Fellowship showed how being creative and using the right tools in the right way can bring environmental, economic, and community benefits – lessons he is keen to apply in the UK.
By Ross Watson, 2025
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) has contributed analysis of the Independent Water Commission’s Final Report on Regulator Reform.
By Jemima Lovatt, 2025
Ross Watson (CF 2023) contributed to the Summer 2025 edition of Scottish Forestry journal for the Royal Scottish Forestry Society with an article on his Churchill Fellowship research into the management of invasive non-native plants.
By Ross Watson, 2025
By Rebecca Henderson, 2024
Dan Adler (CF 2000) was awarded the James Cup by the Royal Forestry Society for a technical article published in the Quarterly Journal of Forestry in 2024.
By Daniel Alder, 2025
Nikki Taylor presented at the 2025 European Cetacean Society conference in the Azores, highlighting international case studies of successful bycatch mitigation gathered during her Churchill Fellowship.
By Nikki Taylor, 2025
Jason Williams collaborated with students from Manchester Metropolitan University to create Cloudscape: Rain or Shine, an installation for the 2025 Manchester Flower Festival inspired by his Churchill Fellowship research on urban greening in Europe and Asia.
By Jason Williams, 2025