Mr Tim J Sykes BA (Hons). CEnv MCIEEM
Postgraduate research student

Tim is interested in an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our relationship with dry chalk streams and aquifers, cultural ecosystem services / nature’s contributions to people, wellbeing #BlueHealth, sense of place
Tim is interested in an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our relationship with dry chalk stream headwaters, and chalk aquifers, cultural ecosystem services / nature’s contributions to people.
Through the lens of cultural ecosystem services and nature’s contribution to people, I am investigating our relationship with chalk stream winterbournes (in their dry, pooling & flowing phases) & chalk aquifers / groundwater.
I am especially interested in contributions to well-being, life satisfaction, sense of place, ecosystem dis-services, solastalgia & ecological grief; and geocognition; relational and intrinsic values, bequest and existence values, attitudes, perceptions.
Through Grounded Theory and using interdisciplinary multiple participatory Qual and Quant methods e.g. walking interviews, surveys, Q-method, Delphi and public/focus groups, I-poems etc, I will draw upon environmental psychology, social science, philosophy, cultural geography and environmental history.