“Direct intimate encounters with nature are crucial for countering the negative effects of modernity.”
Lisa Fenton
Lisa’s Voice
Media Contributions
A pioneering and radical thinker, Lisa’s perspectives, ideas, and opinion are sought in various media formats, such as podcasts, radio, press and TV.
Example Media
Contributions
Russell Brand • RADIO X
BBC • Guest ‘Countryfile Magazine’ Podcast
BBC • Guest ‘Woman’s Hour’
Channel 4 • Guest ‘Loose Women’
Speaking Engagements
A combined love of wild places, people, and associated culture has led Lisa to expedition through arduous climates and globally remote environments to learn from those who still retain a skilled knowledge of how plants and animals can directly support human life, culture and spirit.
It is through this knowledge of the traditional practices of indigenous and local peoples we can re-connect to our human story, helping us to understand and enrich our own experiences with within the natural world. A truly unique voice, with a clarity of vision, Lisa delights in taking her audience on a journey into the ‘ethnosphere’.
Future Speaker Engagements
2020 (now 2021)
RGS Explore Conference. Royal Geographical Society, London
The Ecology of Language: Concept Conservation and Control in a World of ‘Climate Catastrophe’. Lisa will be co-presenting with Dr. Jamie Mcphie (Cumbria Uni) & Dr. David Clarke (Edinburgh Uni)
2020 (now 2021)
Off-Grid Survival Show, UK
Panellist
2021 (now 2022)
Global Bushcraft Symposium, UK
Co-host
2020 (now 2021)
The International Bushcraft Event, Holland
Main Stage Speaker
Historic Speaker Engagements
2019
1st Global Bushcraft Symposium, Alberta, Canada
‘Bumping Heads: Bushcraft & its Cognate Domains.’
Invited Keynote Speaker
2018
8th International Adventure Therapy Conference, Sidney, Australia
'Bushcraft as a Therapeutic Connection to Nature.'
2017
Nature Connections Conference, University of Derby
Presentation 'Bushcraft as Nature Connection'
2017
Royal Geographical Society North West Explore Conference, University of Cumbria
'Bushcraft in Research; Researching Bushcraft'
2013
The Royal Anthropological Institute Post Graduate Seminar, Ideas in Movement, convened by Professor Timothy Ingold, University of Aberdeen
Presentation of thesis: ‘Bushcraft’ and ‘Indigenous knowledge’: transformations of a concept in the modern world.
2010
12th International Congress of Ethnobiology (ICE), Tofino, British Columbia
‘Bushcraft’ and ‘Indigenous knowledge’: transformations of a concept in the modern world’.
Conversations with Lisa
Ever curious to explore not only physical and cultural landscapes of the tangible world, but equally, the philosophical and existential frontiers of our Age.
As an academic, Lisa fully appreciates the power in thinking with others and the sharing of experiences and intellectual positions. It is often at the intersections of disciplines that transformational ideas can emerge. Lisa invites others into lively conversations that inspire.