PhD from the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter. ‘Stakeholder attitudes to the narratives of the Dartmoor Commons: tradition & the search for consensus in a time of change‘

• Formerly General Manager for the National Trust on Dartmoor (11 years)
• Property Manager at Wicken Fen (7 years)
• 15 years with the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.
• Creator of the ‘Big Idea’ for the Wildlife Trusts which later became the The Great Fen Project
• Architect of the Wicken Fen Vision
• NT lead on Fingle Woods – the NT / Woodland Trust landscape scale partnership on Dartmoor

BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences (Zoology and Ecology) University of Exeter
MSc in Conservation, University College London
MBA The Open University
PhD Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter