Dr Rosamund Portus is a lecturer in Environmental Management at UWE Bristol, working in the environmental humanities and social sciences. She currently an ACCESS Flex Fund Fellow (leading on a project examining environmental education strategies). Other recent and current projects include ‘Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to Tackle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation‘, ‘Reading for Climate’, and ‘Nature Connections and Parental Perspectives‘. Her PhD research at the University of York considered the social and cultural dimensions of the decline of bee populations, and she has written extensively on the connections between culture, creativity, and ecological crises. Rosamund has a BA (hons) in Anthropology from the University of Sussex and an MSc in Environment, Culture and Society from the University of Edinburgh.
Alongside her research work, Rosamund Portus is a painter and illustrator. Rosamund began to formally develop her practice in 2017, when she started taking classes with the Leith School of Art. She specialises in portraiture, but also enjoys more illustrative work. Rosamund has previously exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Beetime Residency Open Studio, the Countervoices Exhibition,a nd Glasgow Science Centre.
Dr Rosamund Portus 