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Amy Bond
November 2024
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At the IES, we aim for our trustees to represent a range of sectors, fields, career stages and life experiences, and to be able to come together to make key decisions with insight and balance. Ultimately, we want our trustees to reflect our members, our members to reflect the environmental...

Joseph Lewis
October 2024
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This article is part of the IES’s 2024 policy work on the theme of ‘knowledge’, addressing what evidence-informed policy means in practice and what it means for how environmental policy engagement is approached. This thematic work covers questions from the practical to the theoretical, from...

Sophie Hoyland
October 2024
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What inspired you to pursue an environmental career?

I’ve always enjoyed geography and science, but it wasn’t until university that I truly saw a career path forming. During a careers module, an environmental engineer spoke about her typical day, and I could immediately picture myself in her...

Will Pope, Bea Gilbert
September 2024
Banner saying 20 years of CEnv

To mark 20 years of SocEnv, we spoke to Will Pope, one of its founders, to reflect on the progress made since then.


What has been the impact of SocEnv on your career?

I’m not sure I have a single answer to this, I think there might be a couple at least. I was already a...

Matt Andrioli & Amy Bond
September 2024
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Earlier this year, the IES' Land Condition Community Early Careers Network hosted a 'speed networking' session: a chance for members to virtually mingle and get to know peers and industry experts alike. The event was well-received and we were especially glad to hear that a...

Amy Bond
August 2024
An ocean wave, viewed from above, is in the background. Text reads 'Marine conservation and restoration: wrap-up", "#IESTurningTheTide". The IES and Ocean Decade logos are visible next to the text.

For the fourth and final theme of our UN Ocean Decade endorsed project, Turning the Tide: Systems thinking for a sustainable ocean, we focused on marine conservation and restoration. To explore this topic, we published articles and hosted a range of events in collaboration with experts in the...

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