Miss Heidi Barron

ESRC funded PhD student (SWDTP), in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, researching the development and application of multispecies justice.

Supervisors: 

Dr Kim Ward 

Dr Simon Dickinson 

MSc Sustainable Environmental Management, Distinction (University of Plymouth : 2022 - 2023)

BSc Geography, First Class Honours (University of Plymouth : 2019 - 2022) 

Associate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS with IBG)

Member of the British Ecological Society (BES)

Member of the the Association for Geographic Information (AGI)

Member of the the Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)

Acting as a Teaching and Support Assistant on the following modules: 

GGH2206 (Nature, Country and Society): ‘Nature and rurality’ - Dartmoor National Park field trip 2023

ENVS1009 (Sustainability Science): 'Sustainability in action' - Sharpham Estate field trips 2023

GEES519 (Environmental Knowledge: From Field to Stakeholder): 'Energy and nature within urban environments' - Poole Farm field trip 2023

GGX3204 (Big Data & Spatial Analytics): Geographic Information Systems (GIS) practical sessions and project workshops

GGH1203 (Culture, Society and Space): GIS for Human Geography and GIS for Physical Geography practical sessions

ENVM1001 (Environment and Society): 'Environment and Society' -  Totnes Field trip 2024

Research interests broadly focus on nature-society relations and how values embedded within these relations impact interpretations of justice. My PhD research is centred on the development and application of multispecies justice - a concept which reimagines how justice is conceived and adjudicated between human and non-human nature through considering the rights of all entities on an equal footing. I seek to understand the challenges and opportunities that applying multispecies justice creates for existing conservation practices in the UK.