Fritha West – SAGES

Institution: University of St Andrews

Theme: Landscape Form, Use and Change: a dynamic Earth

Theme: Transformations in Society and Environmental Policy

Department / group: School of Geography & Sustainable Development

Email: faw8@st-andrews.ac.uk

Institution URL: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-sustainable-development/

Personal URL: N/A

Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8lxKf3wAAAAJ&hl=en

Research interests:

Ecological change and environmental anthropology, sustainable forestry

Career history:

1 year as Citizen Science Assistant at the Woodland Trust
MSc (Res) in Biology/Ecology at St Andrews
2 years as Co-Director of the Whitelands Project CIC
1 year as Site Manager at the Whitelands Project CIC
1st Blass BSc (Hons) in Zoology at Bangor
2 years of fieldwork for RSPB, WMIL, Knepp Wildland Estate

Active research projects:

Mapping social values, attitudes and practices to inform effective ecological and cultural restoration of ‘lost’ tree species

Recent publications:

Nature’s Calendar Spring Analysis 2022- Fritha West, the Woodland Trust, 2022
Whitelands Wood Management Plan – in preparation for Publication