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The Forum
1A Forum Buildings
Bath, Somerset, BA1 1UG
United Kingdom

Andrew Grant

Andrew is a landscape architect whose work explores the connection between people and nature. He started his company, Grant Associates, in 1997 which has grown into an international design studio with offices in Bath and Singapore. His approach is based around using creative ecology to find solutions to the major challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and improving human quality of life, health and well being. Each of his projects responds to the place, its inherent ecology and its people and promotes quality and innovation in landscape design. In 2012 he was awarded the title of RSA Royal Designer for Industry in recognition of his pioneering global work in landscape architecture such as the multi award winning Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. The 54 hectare park explores the technical boundaries of landscape and horticulture in an Asian city and won the Building Project of the Year Award at the 2012 World Architecture Festival. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission Design Group. Based in the city of Bath he is Chair of the Bathscape Landscape Partnership and a member of the Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board. He is also co-founder of the pop up festival Forest of Imagination which engages the wider community of Bath in the re-imagining of city spaces and our relationship with nature in the city.

Babs Behan

Babs Behan is the founder of Botanical Inks – an artisan natural dye studio based in Bristol, UK. Her work ranges from natural dyeing for textiles, clothing and paper products, to surface application techniques, including Shibori tie-dyeing, bundle dyeing with flowers, and block printing. She leads workshops, as well as guest courses, and her clients include Saatchi Gallery, London Fashion + Textiles Museum, Ace Hotel, Soho House, and Wilderness Festival.

Frances Fox

Founder and UK Coordinator - Climate Live // Festivals and Celebrity Outreach Coordinator - UK Student Climate Network // Campaigner - Fridays For Future International

Kate Mason

Kate Mason has worked consistently in a variety of roles across the arts, heritage, community, cultural and creative industries sectors for 26 years. A strategist, persuader and cultural broker, she is a passionate advocate for the value of the arts as a key pillar of a balanced education. She supports the belief that we all - regardless of age or background - have an entitlement to quality cultural learning. Following a degree in English Literature, Kate kick-started her career with an MA in Heritage Studies with a focus on Museum and Gallery curation and interpretation. Kate currently works at the arts education charity 'The Big Draw' in her role as Director, channeling her personal passions in support of its stated visual literacy agenda. She is a Trustee of 'The House of Imagination', an arts-based action research charity. Kate is also a Companion of 'The Guild of St George', an educational charity for art, craft and the rural environment, founded in 1871 by John Ruskin. The Big Draw has an annual international festival celebrating drawing, visual literacy and creativity, and also run 'The John Ruskin Prize'. For Kate, creativity is crucial to her own health, balance and sense of wellbeing. She has previously written about her own challenges with OCD and the creative tools and thinking that she adopts to help manage this issue.'

Penny Hay

Dr Penny Hay (FRSA, FHEA) is an artist and educator. She is a part-time Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning and Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education and also Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries and Director of Research, House of Imagination. Penny has worked extensively in arts education across the UK and co-ordinated the professional development programme for the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD). She was instrumental in setting up the National Artist Teacher Scheme with Arts Council England and NSEAD that offers teachers the opportunity to develop their own creative practice, culminating in the first summer school at Tate Modern.

Peter Clegg

Peter Clegg established the architectural firm Feilden Clegg Bradley in 1978. The practice has since become well established with a strong reputation for carbon impact architecture, winning the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2008 for Accordia in Cambridge, the first ever residential development to win the award. Peter was educated at Cambridge and Yale and he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. He has 30 years’ experience in low energy architecture and the architecture of schools. Peter has an invaluable understanding of the impact the built and natural environment has on students.

Stephen Day

Steven Day is a co-founder of Pure Planet, Britain’s first digital renewable energy supplier, based in Bath. He has 30 years’ experience in journalism, communications, brand marketing and management. Steven’s began his career as a journalist in 1988 working in magazines before moving to Fleet Street and the Daily and Sunday Express as a business reporter. He rose to become Deputy Editor of the Sunday Express. He joined Virgin in 1999 to launch Virgin Mobile. As Corporate Affairs Director, he led the communications teams, as well as investor relations during the company’s stock market listing and subsequent sale to Ntl, when the business became Virgin Media. With a group of friends, he’d worked with since Virgin, Steven launched Pure Planet in 2017 with the aim of making renewables affordable, digitally accessible, and the easy choice for mainstream consumers. It is multi-award winning. It is the Best Company to Work for in the South West 2020 and is the second Best Smaller Company to Work for in the UK, according to Best Companies/Sunday Times. Steven holds a master’s degree in sustainability leadership from the University of Cambridge. He is currently studying for a doctorate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, researching the outcomes of sustainability education on business. Steven is also a director of Smart Energy GB.

Sue Rigby

Professor Sue Rigby is the Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University. Sue is a palaeontologist by background. After being an academic at Cambridge, Leicester and Edinburgh she moved into senior management, first as Assistant Principal and then Vice Principal at the University of Edinburgh. She is an HEA Principal Fellow. In the recent past Sue was the Chair of the Natural Sciences TEF Pilot Panel and Chair of the Learning Gain Steering Group for Office for Students. Sue led the Inclusive Development strand of the BIS Disabled Students Sector Leadership Group. In addition, she led the work undertaken by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to define information needs for taught postgraduate students. This work has now been formalised into national policy across the whole of the UK, affecting all universities and many higher education colleges.