Where / when:
Wednesday 13 May 2026, 09:30-14:30 - There are 4 parts to the day with the option to join one or all, in person or online.
38 Mappin Street, 107 (Workroom 04) or online (link will be the gmail link in your calendar invite).
About the event:
The Nature Recovery Academic Learning Community is being set up by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, working in partnership. We intend to build a collective, ongoing Learning Community of researchers, practitioners, service users, volunteers, educators, and policy-makers with the aim of:
Listening to and understanding the relative importance of each others’ priorities and agendas.
Identifying opportunities for working together over the coming 2-5 years.
Developing a shared vision for future work, and building a strategy for supporting this work in a way which allows for stronger university engagement with the priorities of the Wildlife Trust and other relevant organisations and community groups.
Benefiting Nature Recovery through joined up contributions from researchers, scholars, professionals across the Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust/University communities, staff and students.
Why attend all or part of this day?
Hear about current work and practice in Nature Recovery, challenges and opportunities.
Share your research interests in an interdisciplinary Nature Recovery Partnership setting.
Be part of shaping this partnership in its early stages.
Structure of the day:
You can attend any or all of these sessions in person or online. Please use the Google Form link below to sign up.
Session 1
09:30-10:00 - Welcome and introduction to Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust’s mission and Theory of Change.
10:00-11:00 - A showcase of projects across the university to date and future project opportunities.
Session 2
11:00-12:00 - Workshop - Creating a vision: purpose, goals and making it happen.
Session 3
12:00-13:00 - Lunch and networking.
Session 4
13:00-14:30 - Moving forwards - planning and next steps.
Click here to access the registration Google Form (we will invite you to your chosen sessions).
If you have any questions please get in touch with Jenn Fuller (jlfuller1@sheffield.ac.uk).