Lorna Fox

About me

I have spent most of my career working in and with communities; with schools, youth groups, community groups, the NHS and volunteers. I have worked in the Western Indian Ocean on a RGS initiative, co-ordinating a training, education and research project, at London Wildlife Trust as Regional Development Manager where I co-founded Woodberry and Walthamstow Wetlands, at Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust as Head of Engagement and Learning, sitting on the Board of Directors, as well as previously at WWT as Head of Learning. I have sat on BIAZA’s Conservation Education Committee, been a Community and Safeguarding Governor for a large secondary school in Bristol as well as sat on the Heat Network Advisory Panel as a Community Advisor for Vattenfall for Bristol. I have a MSc in Education for Sustainability and Social Change and a P.G.C.E. from Cambridge University. I am currently a Trustee for Devon Wildlife Trust.

Prior to returning to WWT, I was working for the RSPB, leading on the development of all large-scale high impact programmes and projects across Wales for people and nature, as well as having responsibility for the RSPB’s programme and project pipeline in Wales. I was also the strategic lead for the RSPB’s peatland restoration work in Wales and chaired the Wales Carbon Finance Group for the RSPB.

My role

I am the Senior Project Development Manager for the Blue Recovery Leaders Group. My role sits within the Project Development Team, in the Conservation Directorate.

My key objectives are to nurture strategic relationships with the members of the Blue Recovery Leaders Group, drive forward WWT aims and mission to restore wetlands and unlock their power with the group, and co-develop projects with the members.

Experience and interests

• Strategic planning
• Community engagement and co-design
• Outdoor learning
• Project and programme development
• Project and programme management
• Pipeline management
• Volunteer management

I live on Dartmoor and walk daily on the moor. I have spent the lifetime of my career being passionate about engaging people in nature and believe strongly in our connection to the natural world. I like running and swimming and do both regularly – on the moor for running and in local rivers or the sea for swimming.

Publications

Fox, L. 2014. Giving children the voice to help integrate EfS into the IB PYP Curriculum. In: International conference on environmental education and sustainability “The Best of both worlds”, Bertioga, Brazil, 12-16 May 2014, pp. 417-437. Sao Paulo: SESC.

Pitt, A. and Fox, L. 2015. Sharing practice from around the globe: Feedback from the Best of Both Worlds Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development Conference 2014. Local Economy 30: 452-463.

Hope-Stone Research. 2017. WWT The Impact of School Visits to WWT Wetland Centres on pupil attitudes to nature: Final research report October 2017. Report to WWT.

Sumner R.C., Stitch M., & Stonebridge N. 2020. A mixed method evaluation of the Nature on Prescription social prescribing programme. University of Gloucestershire, UK. ISBN: 978-1-86174-266-7