Speakers
Speakers and workshop leaders will share tales from their recent expeditions, while Society staff will be available to provide personalised advice and guidance on your own future field projects and expeditions.
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Sarah McArthur
Sarah is a humanitarian researcher who’s lived in D.R.C., Afghanistan, C.A.R. and Ukraine, and a free-lance journalist who recently visited Cameroon to hear coastal communities’ stories.
Michelle Sanders
Michelle is a filmmaker and social scientist. Her work focuses on exploring peoples’ relationships to the planet, with a particular interest in our connections to the sea.
Michael Murphy
Michael is an explorer and anthropologist. He studies how extreme journeys change the deepest part of people’s identities. He has worked with refugees, undocumented migrants, and analogue astronauts.
Madeleine Foote
Madeleine is a social scientist, journalist and oral historian currently completing a PhD at the University of Oxford. Before starting postgraduate research, she worked for National Geographic, collaborating on numerous conservation and storytelling projects. Her research combines her experience of remote fieldwork with her passion for community-based participatory research.
Hattie Field
Hattie is an experienced project manager whose interest in politics, people and environments, has led her to complete fieldwork across the Middle East and Asia.
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.
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