This year’s Green Week Lecture will be given by Dr Keith Kirby, Visiting Researcher, Department of Plant Sciences, who will discuss biodiversity conservation, and the broader challenges faced by environmentalists.

This event is hosted by Kellogg MCR Green Officer Wallerand Bazin and will be followed by a Q & A session, led by Kellogg Sustainability Fellow Dr Sandie Byrne.

This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be available from 5pm, the lecture will begin at 5.30pm.

About Dr Keith Kirby:

My degree was in Agricultural and Forest Sciences here in Oxford, followed by a DPhil in Wytham Woods; after a couple of contract jobs I spent 33 years as forestry and woodland officer with Natural England – the government nature conservation agency in England (and its predecessors). Since retiring to Oxford in 2012 I have continued my research in Wytham and elsewhere, with a particular interest in long-term vegetation change, its causes and consequences, and in land-use change effects such as rewilding.

About Wallerand Bazin:

Currently reading an MPhil in Geography, Wallerand researches the land politics of tree planting in England. After writing his undergraduate philosophy dissertation on the political thought of Bruno Latour, he worked for two years in climate change mitigation in both the public and private sector. Observing how various stakeholders frame differently environmental change and its responses, Wallerand currently analyses how the environment is a platform for conflicting political ideas.