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.
Zoe Gilbertson looks back on her Fellowship exploring flax and bioregional resilience across Europe. She shares how learning from community-focused projects shaped her understanding of how local production can be rebuilt through culture, creativity, and collaboration. Now, through her organisation Liflad, she is working to revitalise flax and linen production in the UK, with her work being supported by growing networks and shared learning across Europe and beyond.
By Zoe Gilbertson, 2026
Martin Gaywood (CF 2023) delivered an online talk, Conservation Translocations: Moving Species to Restore Nature, hosted by the UHI Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation.
By Martin Gaywood, 2026
By Hazel Stone, 2025
Yvette Cave (CF 2025) featured on the WeSurf BIPOC Surf Talk podcast, discussing her journey into surfing and the development of Wave Wahinis, a community supporting female surfers.
By Yvette Cave, 2026
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) spoke at Public Law Project’s conference Public Law and the Planet, sharing insights from her Churchill Fellowship to India.
By Jemima Lovatt, 2026
Carry Somers (CF 2023) received the Impact Award at the 2026 London Fashion Awards, recognising 35 years of influence and leadership in the fashion sector.
By Carry Somers, 2026
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) recently responded to UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCRH) Call for Input addressing the challenges and barriers to the full realisation of the human rights of the people of the Marshall Islands stemming from the State’s nuclear legacy.
By Jemima Lovatt, 2026
By Karen Rushton, 2024
By Harvey Tweats, 2024
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
