Rod Ireland is a professional photographer living and working in the Lake District. He runs photography courses and sells his landscape work. Rod has held a number of photography exhibitions including “The Lake District by Night” which was acclaimed for providing a unique perspective on a much loved and familiar…
Phil is a poet, keen fell walker, cyclist and amateur naturalist. His writing is influenced by the landscape and moving through it. He is published in poetry magazines, journals – including the Wainwright Society’s ‘Footsteps’ – and anthologies. He is a keen field-identifier, skilled at bringing the overlooked and unseen…
Critically acclaimed and award-winning outdoors filmmaker Terry Abraham and producer of the BBC hit ‘Life of a Mountain Scafell Pike’ and ‘Life of a Mountain Blencathra’ can often be found in a tent atop the fells capturing Lakeland at its best. His love and passion for the fells is second…
Field Studies Council is a leading provider of geography fieldwork. The geography fieldwork courses at our UK centres are tailored to curriculum requirements for GCSE, A Level, National, Higher, IB and lower secondary specifications and packed with relevant fieldwork content. Our expert tutors create and deliver…
Thanks to funding from the Generation Green project we can offer a limited number of subsidised places on our huge range of Natural History and Art courses. We want young people aged 18-25 living in England to attend our courses to enable them to take on…
James Merryweather is the author of two FSC AIDGAP field guides: a comprehensive key to all British pteridophytes and a folding chart that covers 38 common ferns. He has been teaching fern identification and ecology since he first came to the Blencathra Centre, shortly after publication of The Fern Guide…
You may know that FSC has taken the bold decision to review our renowned natural history training courses and structure them in a new,…
Paul Nichol is an experienced field mycologist having worked in adult education for Nottingham University and the WEA where he taught Field Mycology and has taught for the FSC for many years. He has been involved with the setting up of Fungi study groups in Nottinghamshire and Cumbria, in Cumbria…
Alan Goodall was born and lives in West Yorkshire. He is well known amongst the art community. Following a career in interior design, he has built up an excellent reputation for his expertise in the technique of watercolour painting. Self-taught Alan has exhibited widely, including numerous shows for the British…
Peter is an entomologist with more than forty years of experience in recording and assessing invertebrate assemblages and in providing management advice to various conservation bodies and local authorities. He is the author of the handbook “Habitat management for invertebrates” and is currently a self-employed consultant.