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Research and Co-design


‘Lisa articulates research in appealing and rigorous ways. Her methods have the capacity to inspire others and change practices, which is desperately needed in this time of ecological challenge.'




Biljana C. Fredriksen
Professor of Art & Craft Education
University of South-Eastern Norway

With Kath Daly, designing and delivering Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Local Nature Recovery Strategy stakeholder engagement workshops, with farmers and landowners, environmental organisations, town and parish councillors, developers, businesses and the general public. Included data collection and early analysis. For Buckinghamshire Council. Designing and delivering arts based research into the value of cultural ecosystem services. Developing methods for presenting arts based research alongside economic data to policy makers. For the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aqua Culture Science, with Evolved Research and Consulting. Reintroducing Pine Martens to Devon and Somerset. Developing bespoke creative evaluation guidance, toolkit and data collation system, following co-design workshop with species reintroduction team. Devon Wildlife Trust. With Kath Daly, researching whether the award winning 'Tracking the Impact' nature recovery monitoring programme could be scaled up across Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes to support the delivery of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Commissioned by Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Natural Environment Partnership, funded by Natural England. Arts based research workshop, Lowestoft, UK East Coast. Designing a creative evaluation system with Devon and Somerset Wildlife Trust. 'Finding Teams For Nature Recovery' Site based action research into practical conservation volunteer perspectives on community organising. For Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxon Wildlife Trust. Articulating issues around temporary accommodation in London with event delegates through drawing, gifting artworks across the system, feeding into wider research. For Trust for London. Rooftop renewables co-design event with Thame Business Forum and Oxford Low Carbon Hub Action research, exploring the viability of local tree care and seed system with Chiltern Rangers CIC, part of Bucks Tree Mission. Creation of visual research methods, lead on writing and creating interactive research report investigating how a systems learning approach impacted the effect of Covid emergency funds. For Just Ideas. Exploring the possibility of co-designing with water. Internal Research 'Build a school in a day' For Creative Partnerships Sheffield, with Gillian Robertson.
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Tools Provocations and Props







Species and habitat domes for nature recovery zones, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Nature Recovery Strategy, designed with Laure Carnet.. Bespoke field notebooks, for Tracking the Impact research workshop for Environmental organisations. Natural character zone maps, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Local Nature Recovery Strategy, designed with Laure Carnet. Crafting tree baskets, to imagine the future lives of saplings. Imagining a different relationship with rain, through a tent 'rain door'. Inviting questions about shared human and deer spaces, Knepp Rewilding. Civic Shapes, a card-pack tool for exploring identity within a democratic system, with Just Ideas and New Local. Thinking about light and time with a portable sundial tent. Adapted Civic Shape



Catalyst projects
and events


'The most well-crafted event on
climate justice I have seen.

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Ruth Mayne
Co-founder of Low Carbon West Oxford,
Lead Researcher Just Energy Transitions & Influencing, Oxfam GB






Town electrification tours with young people. Farmer and landowner local nature recovery strategy event, The Bell Pub, Wimslow. For Buckinghamshire Council. Event exploring the effect of Climate Change on Cuttle Brook Nature Reserve, with Cuttle Brook Conservation Volunteers. An Evening of Film and Conversation on Climate Justice, COP 27. Connecting local land/food/biodiversity and energy production practices in England, Kenya and India through bespoke films and live conversation. With Empathy Media. Designing and delivering a workshop to sense check and evaluate the first iteration of the Buckinghamshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy, with 100 farmers, ecologists, community volunteers, developers and businesses . For Buckinghamshire Council, with Kath Daly Associates.














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