This three-week programme is hosted by the thriving research community at our Centre for Environmental Humanities. Students will work with world-leading environmental humanities scholars, community partners, and each other to explore important ways of thinking about and engaging with nature within and beyond the context of the city.

Drawing on ideas at the heart of the environmental humanities, they will consider the importance of places and times, materials and objects, stories and narratives as they build an understanding of people’s relationships with the rest of the natural world. 

Students’ studies will focus on the interface of city and nature, taking in subjects which may range from geology, wildlife, extinctions, nature on display, eco-literature, and film. In the process, they will engage both with foundational environmental humanities methodologies and conceptual approaches to the study of human-nature relationships, and with more specific case studies firmly rooted in the histories, cultures, and communities of Bristol.

By the end of their studies, students will have gained a sense of nature’s place in the city of Bristol, the environmental challenges facing our planet, and the ways in which the environmental humanities can help us understand and develop new relationships between people and the wider natural world.  

You can read the course description, aims, intended learning outcomes, and teaching and assessment information in our Unit Catalogue.