Suzanne Peace

MA, PhD

Senior Communications Officer

Suzanne facilitates and delivers communication activities to Forest Research stakeholders including including policy-makers, practitioners, and citizens.

Her responsibilities include:

  • Science communication
  • Corporate communication

She works at a strategic and operational level to plan, deliver and evaluate communications.

Suzanne’s career spans research, practice and science communication. Since 2009 she has focussed on communicating science to policy-makers, practitioners and publics.

Suzanne trained as a Geographer at the University of Aberdeen where she completed an MA and PhD. In 2001 she joined Forest Research as a social science researcher and project leader. Later she joined Forestry Commission Scotland as a Development Officer where she worked to integrate forests and woodlands into projects and partnerships in the central belt of Scotland.

In 2009 Suzanne returned to Forest Research to lead the organisation’s communication and knowledge exchange activities in England. From 2011-14 she undertook a secondment as a Science-Policy Officer with ClimateXChange. In this role she facilitated knowledge exchange activities between scientists in Scottish research institutes and policy teams in Scottish Government. She returned to Forest Research in 2014 to focus on science and corporate communications.

Affiliations

  • Member and Accredited Practitioner of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations
  • Member of STEMPRA - a network for science PR and communications professionals

Facilitates communications in the following research areas:

  • Climate change
  • Forest management
  • Physical environment
  • Society, economy and statistics
  • Urban trees and greenspace
  • Pests and diseases
  • Forest ecology