Social and Cultural Values and Trees on Farms in England
Author(s): Stephen McConnachie, Maddy Pearson, Harry Marshall, Beth Brockett, Grace van der Wielen
Maddy Pearson
BA, MSc, PhD
Maddy Pearson
BA, MSc, PhDSocial Scientist | Anthropologist
Society and environment research group (SERG)
Forestry Commission Office, 620 Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1EJ, UK
About Maddy Pearson
Maddy Pearson is a social anthropologist with a longstanding interest in human-environmental relations. Maddy has a BA and MSc from the London School of Economics in social anthropology and anthropology and development. Maddy recently submitted her PhD based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which focused on river relations on a drying chalk stream in South-East England. Her thesis considered how environmental, climactic, and pandemic uncertainty, impacted river relations and came to bear on considerations of health as a more-than-human, intimate public practice.
Affiliations
- Royal Anthropological Institute
- Avon Wildlife Trust
Publications
Understanding and enabling access to woodlands for diverse publics
This Research Note presents findings from research with groups that are underrepresented as woodland visitors; focusing on their motivations, the…
Lead Author: Jen Clements
Working with natural processes for woodland creation
This report presents ten key insights about working with natural processes for woodland creation that have emerged from our research.
Lead Author: Bianca Ambrose-Oji
Further paths to embracing trees on farms: The role of social and cultural values
Overview What leads some farmers to dramatically increase the number of trees on their land? What role do social and…
Lead Author: Maddy Pearson
In Brief: Increasing tree cover on dairy farms in England: The role of farmers’ values
Understanding the range of values held by farmers in relation to trees allows us to learn how, when, and where…
Lead Author: Maddy Pearson
Increasing tree cover on dairy farms in England: The role of farmers’ values
This Research Report explores the issues that matter to dairy farmers in England regarding trees and increasing tree cover on…
Lead Author: Maddy Pearson
Other Research
Alongside her PhD studies, Maddy worked as a teaching assistant at King’s College London for three years prior to her time at Forest Research. Maddy’s time in teaching has made her passionate about knowledge exchange as well as diversity and inclusion in education and research settings.
As a researcher at SERG, Maddy is bringing her skills of in-depth ethnography, interdisciplinary theoretical engagement, and qualitative analysis, to projects spanning natural colonisation, land manager values, public access to woodlands, and community tree nurseries.
Maddy is further interested in social studies of riparian landscapes and would like to connect and collaborate with other researchers in this area.