{"id":1432,"date":"2022-04-11T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:47:55","slug":"dr-tilly-collins-senior-teaching-fellow-centre-for-environmental-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2022\/04\/11\/dr-tilly-collins-senior-teaching-fellow-centre-for-environmental-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Tilly Collins,\u00a0Senior Teaching Fellow, Centre for Environmental Policy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI publish on a wide range of topics as well as being passionate about training and supporting new generations of sustainability scientists.\u201d<\/h3>\n

As a teenager I thought I would become a fashion designer, which was a distinct improvement from wanting to be a horse. But after studying at Chelsea School of Art and ten years working in event design and management, I changed direction completely, went to agricultural college and moved into arboriculture, entomology and ecological science.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This diverse background and my voracious curiosity has led to a multidisciplinary path and I publish on a wide range of topics as well as being passionate about training and supporting new generations of sustainability scientists. \u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The variety of roles I hold leads to real variation in tasks and some days find me concentrating on teaching, whilst other days are a juggle of meetings, advice, research and writing. I also chat a lot and have an unsung role as \u2018departmental glue\u2019 mediated via informal channels.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My advocacy for edible insects often leads to media appearances as do my designs for urban air pollution mitigation. Alongside Caroline Howe<\/span>,<\/span> I lead research into Sustainable Viticulture Futures – a recent research growth area within the <\/span>Centre for Environmental Policy<\/span><\/a>\u2019s Transdisciplinary Centre for Nature & People. With climate change, rural land uses are adapting, the area under grapevines is changing, and this creates a huge opportunity for improving sustainability of practice in social, economic and ecological dimensions. Four members of the \u2018wine group\u2019 recently presented their work at the <\/span>British Ecological Society<\/span><\/a>\u2019s Ecology Across Borders conference to substantial international interest.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When not at Imperial, I am very social. I garden, provide advice on urban ecology and care for my three teenage children. 22 million people have now watched a TikTok made by one of my teens (Blue Gray) of \u2018Dyeing Mum\u2019s hair purple\u2019 and I remain perplexed.\u202fThe slow and wobbly return to an adapted new-normal and more face-to-face interactions is very welcome.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI publish on a wide range of topics as well as being passionate about training and supporting new generations of sustainability scientists.\u201d As a teenager I thought I would become a fashion designer, which was a distinct improvement from wanting to be a horse. But after studying at Chelsea School of Art and ten years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}