Hi, I’m Rochelle. I graduated from Swansea University in 2021, and have since been a research assistant here at FIRE Lab. Last month, I attended a virtual conference, Sector Symbiosis: The Art of Interdisciplinary Working for Ecological Benefit, held by Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM). The conference had a series of talks […]
Creative evaluation: fun and stimulating ways to collect and present data
Hi, I am Daphne, FIRE Lab’s visual artist. Before you proceed with reading this article, please take some time to look at the image below and pick a colour that relates to how you’re feeling at the moment. I recently joined the Creative Evaluation workshop series led by Jane Willis and organised by Engage, the […]
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Looking back is going forward: the journey of Underwater Haiku
Hello again blog readers, this is Daphne. Since April 2020, I have been working and creating along with colleagues and people from around the world on the Underwater Haiku (UWH) project, a collaborative initiative merging poetry, visual arts, and science. If you’d like to read more about UWH project, here‘s a post I wrote about […]
Attuning to the environment using arts-based research
I’m Merryn and I’ve been working with the FIRE Lab team for two years. I recently participated in the excellent ‘Introduction to Citizen Artist’ course run by Citizen Artist founder and research director Lee Ann Woolery, PhD. The six-week course involved a small group of us meeting online once a week to learn about Lee […]
Jac’s River Adventure: from in-person to on-line and back again
In 2020, FIRE Lab team and collaborators, produced Jac’s River Adventure (JRA) book, to share with educators a cross-disciplinary way to challenge young people to think, create and learn about their local rivers. Last year was also the year of COVID-19, which caused disruptions to everyone’s lives, including those of researchers, educators, and creatives. These […]
New! Playing in the water: an exquisite corpse and found river and underwater poems
In 2020, as we saw borders closing, our work forced into many of our homes, and distance brought between many of us and our friends, families, and communities, there was also opportunity to find ways to stay connected with other humans and non-humans. One way we at FIRE Lab, along with Asha Sahni, thought to […]
New! Reflections on the co-creation of Shout Trout Workout published in People and Nature
Reflections from the Team: Co-creating visual media about ecological processes for young people has just been published in a special issue of People and Nature. It is the result of a team effort by FIRE Lab, comics creator Ethan Kocak and media production company TankThink to create a comic and music video to engage 8-14 […]
Underwater Haiku QR Code Quest
Happy Friday! If you are visiting or live around Swansea, Wales, we have a fun (primarily) outdoor activity for you to join! It’s a QR Code Quest that starts at Square Peg in Sketty, where you’ll visit the hybrid artworks and gather your first clue. The Quest then guides you through Sketty, Uplands, and into […]
New research: Structured elicitation to estimate instream infrastructure passability for European eels (Anguilla anguilla)
At the height of the first Covid19 lockdown in the UK, nine experts generously gave their time and expertise to help us improve estimates of the passability of different infrastructures for European eels (Anguilla anguilla). We are pleased to announce that the fruits of their labours have just been published here in Conservation Science and […]
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