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Explore speakers and facilitators

Meet the world-leading experts at the Explore weekend who have generously shared tales, insights and advice from their deep involvement in expeditions and fieldwork.

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Explore symposium

Nina Seale

Nina Seale is a conservation communicator with experience in fundraising, digital media, and charity storytelling. She has worked with World Land Trust, Big Canopy Campout, Conservation Optimism, Buglife, and Synchronicity Earth, using social media to highlight the stories of conservationists. 

Explore symposium

Dwayne Fields

Dwayne is an explorer, broadcaster, and advocate for young people’s access to nature and adventure. A passionate campaigner for diversity in the outdoors, he co-founded the WeTwo Foundation, which takes underrepresented young people on life-changing expeditions.

Explore symposium

Alex Keefe

Alex is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer-director, aspiring expedition leader and adventure motorcyclist. Alex has a passion for storytelling, science communication and understanding the impact of adventure on mental well-being.

Oceans and marine

Alex McMaster

Alexander McMaster is a writer and ecologist from the Atlantic coast of Ireland. As a professional diver and seafarer he is involved with scientific research and community engagement in coastal regions. With over a decade of maritime experience, he currently works as a search and rescue leader in the Central Mediterranean.

Anna Brewster

Anna Brewster is an East Devon based fine artist specialising in local landscapes. She has been a visual artist and educator for almost 20 years, working across a range of media from photography to paint.

Expedition and wilderness medicine

Anna Shekhdar

Anna is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, fullfilling her passion for skiing and mountains through her role as Medical Director for Endeavour Medical.

Monday Night Lecture

Ash Bhardwaj

Ash is one of the country’s top travel writers and broadcasters, co-host of the First Mile podcast, and winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Best Broadcast Programme of the Year.

Explore symposium

Belinda Kirk

Belinda is an explorer, author and speaker. Her book “Adventure Mind: Transform your wellbeing by choosing challenge” was the first to explain why adventure is essential to our mental health. She established AdventureMind which is a conference series and an international research collaborative. She’s led dozens of international expeditions.

Monday night lecture

Callum Munday

Callum is a climate scientist at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. His research focuses on African and tropical climate dynamics and climate change.

Video and film-making

Cameron Mackay

Scottish environmental filmmaker and Celtic music producer Cameron Mackay (He/Him) aims to use his media storytelling work to spark new connections between audiences and nature, showcase inclusive solutions to the climate crisis and celebrate contemporary traditional cultural heritage. He currently runs an environmental impact-focused film production company based in Glasgow.

Human and social sciences

Carl Cater

Carl is Associate Professor in tourism at Swansea University in Wales as well as Professor at the University of Highlands and Islands, Scotland.

Oceans and marine

Catherine Edsell

Catherine designs conservation expeditions for women to assist in the mitigation of elephant/human conflict in Namibia, coral reef conservation in Madagascar and Indonesia, and rainforest conservation in Peru.

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