Stephen is a social scientist, trained as a social anthropologist. He specialises in qualitative, exploratory research. He joined Forest Research in October 2021. His current work focuses on land managers’ values in relation to woodland creation and public access to woodlands.
In 2016, he completed a PhD based on 15 months of fieldwork with subsistence farmers in rural Uganda exploring what it means to live a ‘good’ life.
Prior to Forest Research, Stephen worked as a social researcher in a transport and built environment innovation company at the intersection of government, academia, and industry; and as a social researcher for the Scottish Government at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014. He completed a post-doctoral project funded by NERC with Social Life and University College London examining the social and cultural values people associate with small patches of urban nature, including street trees.
Stephen McConnachie
MA, PhD
Social Scientist
Society and environment research group (SERG)
NRS
Northern Research Station
Bush Estate
Roslin
Scotland
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Peer reviewed journal articles
O’Brien, L., McConnachie, S., Hall, C., Forster, J., Dyke, A., Saraev, V., & Jones, G. (2024). ‘Exploring the social and cultural values of trees and woodlands in England: A new composite measure’. People and Nature (online first). https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10644
Petrokofsky G, Dunn M, Edwards D, Harvey WJ, Hemery GE, Marshall H, McConnachie S, Petrokofsky L, Watts K, Ambrose-Oji B. (2024). ‘Development of a Tool for Navigating the Evidence concerning Land Managers and Woodland Creation in the United Kingdom’. Forests. 15(2):299. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15020299