Environment

Researchers working in the environmental humanities examine the relationships between human creativity, social life, and the non-human world, and have helped to change public perceptions of nature writing, eco-tourism, and the global environmental crisis.

Jeremy Davies works on the legacies of environmental change during the Industrial Revolution. He has collaborated with the museums of Ironbridge Gorge to explore the history of fossil fuel use in Britain, and with the Wordsworth Trust to think about what the Wordsworths' garden can tell us about the changing landscape of the Lake District.

David Higgins’s AHRC-funded project ‘British Romantic Writing and Environmental Catastrophe’ collaborated with the Poetry Society and the Wordsworth Trust to enable young people and community groups to develop their own creative responses to environmental change. The Landlines project, also funded by the AHRC, increased public participation in nature writing and engaged new audiences with the natural world through a range of partnerships and events.