This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme. The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.

1. The Future of UK
Treescapes
Research Funding
Programme
2020-2025
Alice Goodenough & Julie Urquhart
Programme Ambassador Team

2. OUTLINE
• The Treescapes
Ambassador Team
• About the Treescapes
Programme
• Funded projects &
Fellows
• Role of Ambassadors
• Treescapes Research
at CCRI

3. Treescapes Ambassador Team
Dr Julie Urquhart
Treescapes Ambassador
Country and Community
Research Institute,
University of Gloucestershire
Professor Clive Potter
Treescapes Ambassador
Centre for Environmental
Policy, Imperial College
London
Dr Alice Goodenough
Programme Manager
Country and Community
Research Institute,
University of Gloucestershire
Abbie Stone
Communications & Knowledge
Exchange Officer
Centre for Environmental
Policy, Imperial College London

4. Background
• UK Government has set ambitious
targets for tree planting to help
meet net zero goal
⚬ 30,000 ha of new tree planting per
year
⚬ 1.5 billion trees across 1.5 million
ha by 2050
⚬ This would boost woodland cover
from 13% to 17%
• But delivering these targets will
not be easy and must be guided
by the best available science as
well as sensitivity to the cultural
values of a wide spectrum of
different ‘treescapes’
Source: Scottish Rural Network

5. The Future of UK Treescapes story
Improving treescapes for the benefit of environment and society

6. Future Treescapes Building Blocks
Call 1 Projects
Voices of the Future
Connected Treescapes
newLeaf
MEMBRA
Branching Out
CASTOR
Call 2 Projects
TreE_PlaNat
iDeer
STAND
FARM TREE
Agroforestry Futures
DiversiTree
8+ 2
4knowledge
exchange projects
Call 3 Projects
Tree of Knowledge (ToK)
Branching Beyond
Digital Voices of the Future
Future Treescapes in AONBs

7. Treescapes Fellows
Dr Euan Bowdith, UHI
Identifying resilience in surviving populations
of Wych Elm in Scotland
Dr Andrew Hacket-Pain, U of Liverpool
Securing seed supply for forest expansion
Dr Amelia Hood, U of Reading
Identifying barriers to uptake & co-developing
policy options for silvoarable
Dr Robert Mills, U of York
Increasing UK wood pasture capacity through
European KE
Defra-
funded
Dr Leon Baruah, U of Sussex
Restoring floodplain treescapes for flood
allevation
Ellie Dimambro-Denson, RSPB
Mountain woodland restoration: learning
from Norwegian experience
Dr Jim Parker, U of Leeds
Treescape regulation of urban environments
(TRUE)
Dr James Levine, U of Birmingham
AFFORE3ST (Advancing a planning Framework
FOr Regionally Enhanced and Equitable
Ecosystem Services from urban Treescapes)
NERC-
funded

8. Oversight of Treescapes research landscape & support of research funding processes
Drafting calls, supporting applicants & advising review process (managing process for
Fellowships)
Championing stakeholder engagement
Creating knowledge exchange opportunities & interactions with Programme Advisory Board.
Facilitating inter/transdisciplinarity
Supporting strong interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary collaborations (e.g. through call design &
KE activities exchanging best practice)
Monitoring and Evaluation
Tracking, evaluating and reporting project/programme delivery & impact to the Programme
Executive Board
Role of the Ambassadors & Team

9. Role of the Ambassadors & Team
Supporting projects & ‘Treescapes Research Culture’
Providing support to individual projects, networking projects & sharing learning
Building strong policy connections
Ensuring complementarity & outputs relevant to government’s strategic evidence priorities
(e.g. through PAB, Julie’s role on Defra’s Trees & Woodland Scientific Advisory Group &
Fellows)
Developing Programme level outputs
Leading on programme level outputs to maximise impact of results (e.g. policy & practice
notes, collated final report, etc.)
Looking to the future
Making recommendations for future UKRI funding programmes through Big Ideas proposal

10. Researching
Treescapes at CCRI

11. Providing social science evidence to support policy making on trees,
woods & forests (TWF)
Understanding land/woodland manager behaviours & attitudes
towards TWF
Understanding the cultural & wellbeing values of TWF
Interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary teams, approaches & methods for
understanding TWF
CCRI’s recent research on trees, woods & forests

12. • 2023-2026: Identifying new woodland owner types: what is driving new woodland ownership and what
advice and guidance would facilitate delivery of multiple benefits from new woodlands? Rob Cole PhD.
DTP with Defra; supervised by Urquhart & Goodenough.
• 2023: Sir William Roberts Centre Seminar Series: What’s the future for trees on farms? A social science
perspective. Damien Maye
• 2021-2024: Evaluation of Tree Health Pilot (Defra). Partners: Forest Research, CCRI (Urquhart,
Goodenough, Courtney), Sylva Foundation
• 2021: Encouraging woodland creation, regeneration and tree planting on agricultural land (Natural
England). CCRI (Staddon, Urquhart, Mills, Goodenough, Powell, Vigani, Simmonds)
• 2021-2027: Changes in human values and wellbeing experienced from treescape expansion. Berglind
Karlsdóttir PhD. DTP with Forest Research; supervised by Urquhart & Berry
• 2020-2022: Changing Treescapes: Making visible the cultural values at risk from tree pests and
diseases through arts approaches (AHRC). CCRI (Urquhart, Goodenough, Black, Courtney)
• 2018-2021 Resilient Treescapes: co-designing a new tree health grant scheme (Defra). Partners: Forest
Research, CCRI (Urquhart, Goodenough), Sylva Foundation, Fera
CCRI’s recent research on trees & forests

13. Any questions?
Contact us at:
Treescapes@glos.ac.uk
Uktreescapes.org
Twitter: @UK_Treescapes