Hi,

My name’s Glyn Everett, I’m a researcher at UWE working on a project with a long wordy title that some of you might be interested in – Chris has kindly let me post about my work here.

The project considers how we might better manage flood-risk and improve water quality with ‘blue-green infrastructure’ – the water and green spaces around us, like Emersons Green. Importantly though, we want to use and enjoy these spaces for much more than just their water functions! Their potential benefits are seemingly endless, but if people don’t understand or appreciate what they do then maintaining them could be much more difficult.

As a Sociologist, I’m keen to learn what people are un/happy with about both Emersons Green, and people’s behaviour around it. It would be great to meet with a group of interested people, to hear about the good & the bad; we could then together think about small interventions to try to improve things. We have project money to back any activities, and we could keep talking, to see whether we felt we’d made any difference. I am being deliberately vague here, because I would like anyone who’s interested to have as much voice in what we get up to as me.

I wouldn’t take up too much of anyone’s time – at most one evening a month where we meet and talk, then we could chat by email for any more.

Anyway, enough of me going on – if this sounds like something you might be interested in, please do get in touch with me: glyn.everett@uwe.ac.uk. Thanks for reading!

Glyn