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Singing Science
Writing with scientists and songwriters from Devon and beyond in the beautiful surroundings of Dartmoor is a memory with some wonderful contrasts. Balanced agai ...
From Beetles to Bananas
Creative Writing Workshop at Nethercott House, Farms for City Children, Iddesleigh, Devon July 19th 2018
The moorland glowed behind me more yellow than green ...
Shells in Gardens
For a few years now, I have increasingly thought that art could be a powerful medium for science communication, capturing the minds of people who will not absor ...
Are You Sitting Comfortably?…
Here's a little Climate Story about heatwaves, and the process of scientific inspiration.
Once upon a time, almost exactly 15 years ago in fact, a Climate Sc ...
Bringing the Arctic to Exeter
The morning I spent at the RAMM museum in Exeter with a group of writers and scientists was an exhilarating experience. I had chosen a display of exhibits from ...
If we had to start from scratch, who could find flint and make an axe?
I certainly wouldn’t be able to. I realised this whilst I was looking at a wall of them with Jess Collins in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum. On the 16th ...
Inspiration at the Speed of Light. And Sound.
I took immediately to the Climate Stories workshop opportunity and worked feverishly on my own proposal to take part, drawing on many tentative brushes I had in ...
Tread Lightly on the Earth – Scientists’ Workshop, Dartington Hall
How do you create something that stands for everything you are trying to say AND acts as a (pardon the pun) banner around which everyone can rally? The answer l ...
Adventures in Animation
It's the 3rd May, Day Two of our Climate Stories Scientists' Workshop.
I'm sitting in the magnificent Great Hall of Dartington Hall in Totnes, and I'm lookin ...
Glistening Jewels
In the last few days there has been plenty of opportunity to reflect on the effects of climate change. More frequent and extreme weather events, melting ice, d ...