I’m delighted to be returning to teach at Moniack Mhor, from 25th to 30th August 2025. The course includes a number of field trips for maximum immersion in deep nature,…

In March 2024 I was interviewed for the wonderful Biophilic Solutions podcast, on nature and nature connectedness and on who speaks for the rights of nature to remain undisturbed. Thanks…

In 2024 I was delighted to be awarded a Gladstone’s Library writers residency at Hawarden, North Wales. During the residency I wrote a chapter on my recent research trip to…

Saturday 2nd December, Contact Theatre Manchester, hosted by Robin Ince and with a host of scientists, astronomers, comedians and other wonderful folks (Chris Lintott, Prof Chris Jackson, Josie Long, Soundbox…

Karen is a researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre. You can read about the Centre and Karen’s work here

‘Anthem for Cumberland.’ Commissioned long poem to celebrate the Cumberland authority, performed as part of Carlisle fundraising fire show 2023, with fire sculpture designed and built by Gavin Lewery, score…

An abridged version of this essay is published on the Dark Mountain website.  ‘Plastic comes from oil and like everything else on Earth, the origins of oil are deeply bound…

Here are some links to my Guardian Country Diary entries – you’ll find the rest listed on the Guardian website. Bluebell woods on the river Kent Lakeland fells buzzing with…

The painting was made by my friend Szabi as an homage to one of the last slender-billed curlews seen anywhere in the world; the species is now believed to be…