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Home Events Conferences Animal, Man & Treescapes Conference Sept. 2011

Animal, Man & Treescapes Conference Sept. 2011

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A major landmark international event

Animals, Man and Treescapes

               The interactions between grazing animals, people and trees

Sheffield Hallam University, UK ON the 14th to 16th September 2011

Softback copies of the proceedings are now available either full colour or black & white - follow this link to find out how to obtain your copy.

Over a hundred people attended the conference which had speakers from 15 different countries. The overwhelming view was that the conference had been  a great success and very worthwhile in bringing together a wide range of interests linked by a common theme. The field trip to Longshaw on the first afternoon set the scene splendidly for the two days of presentations which followed.

031 The photograph taken by Dr Paul Ardron at Longshaw shows Professor Oliver Rackham observing one of the dung fungi Anellaria semiovata found on the visit.

Some of the comments about the conference included:

"Hearing Oliver Rackham, Frans Vera and Keith Kirkby in one day was fantastic value for money and a real inspiration" GB

"… being able to attend the various presentations and have the chance to talk with well-informed and dedicated people to their subjects, was interesting and inspiring. "ABS

 "Very enjoyable and well organised. … I hope to come again next year." KW

 "All the speakers were excellent and, although some of it was above my head, I understood a lot more than I thought I might.  I learned a huge amount and talked to some very interesting people." TG

 "The level of debate was thought-provoking and quite inspirational.  I thoroughly enjoyed it …. " SS

We are now starting to plan the 2012 conference 'Trees beyond the Wood' so if you would like to offer a presentation, sponsorship and support or would like to be kept informed and sent a booking form (when available) please contact Christine at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

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A Note From Paul Richards, Senior Curator of Natural History, Museums Sheffield, Weston Park, Weston Bank, Sheffield

Hi

 Apologies for sending this unsolicited email to such a wide audience.

 You may or may not have heard about the recent loss of funding for Museums Sheffield.  The attached gives a little of the detail.  The message has often seemed to suggest that the arts council money was only to pay for art related activity.  However the grant was the primary operational fund for the whole service, so all aspects are affected.  Specifically for us, there will be around 45 redundancies.  We do not know how this will work, but it is likely to mean that only one post will remain in Natural History and likewise in other sections.  This means that next Wednesday I am likely to be served with notice of redundancy, and later given an opportunity to apply for the posts which remain in our restructure, hopefully one of which will include Natural History.

Since there have recently been lost museum posts in natural sciences at Derby, Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield, it would be nice to hang on to at least one of the last two remaining curators in the region, if not both.   It is also of great concern that none of the Arts council funding was directed to the east midlands, so there is a swathe from Cambridge to Leeds and Birmingham to Norwich, where no museums service has received major support.  This must put a lot of significant natural history collections under threat.

I do not know what influence public outcry will have, but we would be grateful for any support that you feel you can offer.  The attached give some ideas of where to direct comments.

Thank you

Best wishes

Paul

Museums Sheffield faces a 30% budget cut next year.
Click here for details of how to help us protest.