Phil Tovey

@beingphilt.bsky.social

Director, Nature-Centric Approaches to System Risk ASRA | Former Head of Futures @Defra | Researcher in eco-phenomenology and human augmentation in riverine temporalities | River Tone, Somerset.

Great to see our Risks Beyond Human Eyes project covered by @yeomans.bsky.social for The Times. The project assessed how the risks facing River Tone, in the UK, can be understood through the eyes of the river's nonhuman inhabitants. Led by @beingphilt.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Wildlife researchers pretending to be otters and worms

As they swam, slithered and ran near the River Tone, the participants were encouraged to experience how the animals sense the world around them

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How can we collaborate with nonhumans to better assess systemic risks facing rivers? 🦦🦌 We’re exploring this question in our latest research project: Risks Beyond Human Eyes. Read the first blog in a new series exploring different elements of the project. www.asranetwork.org/news/learnin...

The Animal Collaboration Guide (ACG). © UWE and ASRA [2026]Clatworthy dam impounds the headwaters © River Tone [2024]
Close-up of the River Tone. © European Otter of River Tone [2026]

Learning institutions are emerging to address the climate and ecological crisis. 🌱 @kerifacer.bsky.social and colleagues at the Black Mountains College reflect on what it means to develop an anchor educational institution for ‘ecological imagination’: www.jrf.org.uk/imagination-....

Educating the ecological imagination: the work of Black Mountains College

Learning institutions are emerging to address the ecological crisis, but they need a robust infrastructure to sustain longer-term initiatives and innovation.

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