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October 2025 webinar

Author
joevaughan
Published Date
October 13, 2025

Join the Places, Plants and People Archives Network and the ARA Environmental Sustainability Group for a series of short talks and discussions, exploring how archives, heritage, and research organisations are addressing sustainability and environmental engagement.

When: 22 October 2025, 1 – 2.30 pm

Where: Microsoft Teams

Speakers will share insights ranging from engaging multicultural communities and building sustainable practices in major institutions, to case studies on solar panel retrofitting and the archival legacies of environmental scientists.

  • Judy Ling Wong OBE (Black Environment Network) “Engaging with multicultural communities ”
  • Guy Baxter(MERL/Reading University) “Case study: Retrofitting of solar panels to an archive store at the University of Reading”
  • Catherine Ross (Met Office) “Sustainability at the Met Office”
  • Alasdair Bachell (University of Dundee) “Hydrologist and Biologist – The Papers of William McClean and John Berry”
  • Maureen Pennock (British Library) “Sustain@BL”

There will be time at the end for further questions, thoughts, discussion

This event is free to attend and open to all.

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