News

MEMBRA project members are involved with numerous internal and external meeting and events. In addition we began the project with a high-profile media appearances across different outputs. We expect that this will continue throughout the duration of the project 🙂

This page will keep everyone updated about what our members have been doing!

‘Please be upstanding – the court is about to commence’

In July 2023 MEMBRA participants performed the ‘Ring of Truth’ at Timberfest and explored this important question: ‘What happens when…

Free performance on MEMBRA Sonification

In Autumn 2023 at MEMBRA Creative Lab 2 conversations amongst project members took place about the possible ways how one…

Announcing Valuing Treescapes: a free MEMBRA conference hosted in Exeter

MEMBRA are delighted to host the Valuing Treescapes Conference at the University of Exeter on July 16-18 2024. This event…

Life after MEMBRA…..

Successful applicants to the third and final funding call of the UK Treescapes programme have now been announced. Each project…

The Ring of Truth at TimberFest

MEMBRA participants are currently engaging in a series of Creative Pairings that are bringing together members of the Walking Forest…

MEMBRA is hiring at University of Birmingham

We have two exciting positions available to join the scientific team at the University of Birmingham to work with Marco…

Fieldwork Update Part 2

The MEMBRA fieldwork team has been traveling the length and breadth of the UK measuring over 6000 trees at our…

Fieldwork Update

The MEMBRA fieldwork team has been traveling the length and breadth of the UK measuring over 6000 trees at our…

Future Treescapes 2022

Members of MEMBRA were delighted to attend the Future Treescapes 2022 meeting that was held in Imperial College on September…

MEMBRA Creative lab Video

MEMBRA project members met up at Moor Barton Rewilding project on Dartmoor., April 25-27 2022. In this event project members…

MEMBRA Creative Lab

Between April 25th-27th 2022 MEMBRA participants came together for our first Creative Lab. This event was held under glorious clear…

MEMBRA Involvement on a ‘Tree-Pathogen’ Publication!

MEMBRA project contributors Estrella, Rosa and Marco are involved in a new open access publication in ‘Current Opinion in Plant…

MEMBRA Fieldwork Season is beginning!

The MEMBRA Field Ecology team is starting an intense field season of data collection. Adriane Esquivel Muelbert leads this team…

BBC Learning video about the MEMBRA project

PI Estrella Luna-Diez discusses the research of the MEMBRA project on the BBC Learning English platform.

MEMBRA on BBC Learning English

Portions of MEMBRA PI Estrella Luna-Diez’s BBC interview about tree memories is featured on the BBC Learning English podcast entitled…

New MEMBRA member publication

MEMBRA Co-PI Dr Katherine Earnshaw from the University of Exeter has published a Landscape Decisions policy document that is relevant…

MEMBRA Website Launched!

We have launched the brand-new MEMBRA website! This may not be surprising news since you are currently looking at it!…

Treescapes Launch Event: December 10th

The Phase One Treescapes projects were introduced in a whole programme launch event on December 10th. The current situation meant…

MEMBRA Kickoff Meeting: December 1st

On December 1st at the University of Birmingham we held the MEMBRA kickoff meeting. Academic PIs from Birmingham, Exeter, Leeds,…

MEMBRA featured on the BBC World Service

MEMBRA PI Estrella Luna-Diez was interviewed on the BBC World Service program on the ‘Crowd Science‘ program: Do plants have…

MEMBRA at COP26

Dr Katherine Earnshaw participated in a COP26 associated workshop entitled ‘Turbulence / Emergence / Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies’….