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Professor of Arts and Literacy at Manchester Met. In the Voices of the Future project funded by NERC- a transdisciplinary collaboration exploring children and young people’s relationship to Treescapes. Member of the Centre for Place Writing at Man Met.

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How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes? Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/UwvmCME8YS...

18.12.2025 13:13 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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A Guide to Caring for Your Trees  - Treescapes Voices Drawings and messages inspired by Year 3 children from Lindow Community Primary school

Today I am thinking about tree care. This guide to tree care was co- produced with children from year 3 class with The Mersey Forest treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/2025/07/29/a...

05.12.2025 13:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Our Special Issue is now live, including our 'Giving Up the Good Research Child' article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

29.07.2025 15:39 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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A Guide to Caring for Your Trees  - Treescapes Voices Drawings and messages inspired by Year 3 children from Lindow Community Primary school

This is a wonderful resource @uktreescapes.bsky.social

treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/2025/07/29/a...

29.07.2025 14:58 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Manchester Museum named European museum of the year ‘Gobsmacked’ director says 138-year-old museum aims to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Great news! Our Voices of the future @uktreescapes.bsky.social project was featured in their WILD exhibition.
Such a great museum.

28.05.2025 12:21 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Home - Treescapes Voices The Voices of the future project The ‘Voices of the Future’ project aimed to work with diverse children and young peopleto co-develop more hopeful, equitable, resilient treescapes of the future. We ai...

treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk this is the Voices of the Future website

15.05.2025 11:47 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We explore how storytelling—rooted in memory, not facts—can reconnect us to the urban forest, inspiring communities, shaping identity, and bridging the gap between where trees are needed and where they are wanted. #woodlandtrust
urbantreefestival.org/rooted-in-stor…

02.05.2025 00:25 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

@urbantreefest.bsky.social our Voices of the Future project team will present today about tree stories- exploring children and young people’s experiences of tree measuring @uktreescapes.bsky.social

15.05.2025 11:27 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Impact & Insights Notes - UK Treescapes

Some great policy and practice notes from the @uktreescapes.bsky.social programme including ours www.uktreescapes.org/impact-and-i... on coproduction with children and young people

29.04.2025 13:39 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Home - Treescapes Voices The Voices of the future project The ‘Voices of the Future’ project aimed to work with diverse children and young peopleto co-develop more hopeful, equitable, resilient treescapes of the future. We ai...

treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk
our Voices of the Future website has the most wonderful set of open access resources and publications as well as toolkits and policy notes. Enjoy! @uktreescapes.bsky.social

01.04.2025 09:50 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
How many ways are there to measure a tree? – An experiment in cross-disciplinarity This article takes a transdisciplinary approach to a relatively simple-sounding task – tree measuring. It asks the question, ‘How many ways are there to measure a tree?’, in order to provoke a discuss...

journals.uclpress.co.uk/r4a/article/... our article is out! Thanks to the amazing Voices of the Future team and @uktreescapes.bsky.social

31.03.2025 13:23 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

It has been more than two days that the supply of electricity to Gaza has been shut off. It must resume — essentials including food, electricity, and medical supplies should never be used as political tools. (1/3)

11.03.2025 23:05 👍 3091 🔁 584 💬 102 📌 61
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Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research This article argues for embracing epistemological and methodological diversity in order to advance recent shifts in environmental education that call for alternative spaces for learning. The articl...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... our wonderful new article with Samyia Ambreen and Khawla Badwan for the Voices of the Future project.

17.02.2025 08:25 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Listening to Children, Listening to Trees - Treescapes Voices TREESCAPES Toolkit How can outdoor spaces with trees underpin early childhood practice, and support wellbeing, play, communication, learning and development for young children?  Could playing with, an...

treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/2025/01/27/l... another great Toolkit from the Voices of the Future project this time an early years resource

28.01.2025 09:58 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Our fantastic article on ‘Attending to children’s voices within environmental education’ is out now- thanks to Samyia Ambreen, Khawla Badwan and the Voices of the future team especially the children from Seymour Park Primary School.

11.12.2024 09:12 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Learning About Trees; Thinking about Roots - Treescapes Voices TREESCAPES Toolkit Environmental education and Education for Sustainability are often highly didactic. Children are required to learn ‘facts’about issues like carbon, climate change, and environmental...

treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/2024/12/03/l...
one of our wonderful toolkits developed by our team - thanks to Peter Kraftl and the Voices of the Future team designed by Maisy Summer with primary school children in Manchester

05.12.2024 08:18 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Lovely post about our wonderful Voices of the Future project

02.12.2024 20:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

28.11.2024 18:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper explores learning about environments with a focus on starting with trees. The paper examines children and young people's perceptions of and engagement with trees, as part of a large grant ...

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Here is our wonderful article Starting with Trees from our Voices of the Future Treescapes project

28.11.2024 08:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Last chance to see our Voices of the Future Treescapes exhibition at Manchester Museums- ending 2 December

22.11.2024 11:09 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Tree care day- trees as researchers - working with The Mersey Forest and year 3 children to develop tree care for the Voices of the Future project

21.11.2024 12:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Off in the cold to do Tree Care with The Mersey Forest and Samyia Ambreen and some great year 3 students.

treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk

Hoping it won’t be too icy!

21.11.2024 08:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Resources - Treescapes Voices Treescapes Resources We aimed to integrate children and young people’s knowledge, experiences, and hopes with scientific knowledge in order to co-produce new approaches to creating and caring for resi...

Our wonderful new story from the Voices of the Future Treescapes project treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/resources/#s...

19.11.2024 12:33 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0