Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium 2027 Programme

The Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium- Designing Landscape Projects for Impact: Developing, monitoring and defining outcomes at scale taking place at the King’s House in Manchester on 3-4 February 2027 is the second annual RLAS Symposium. It will bring together leading organisations and stakeholders interested in large-scale land, freshwater, coastal and marine transformation.

The Symposium aims to help build a more cohesive community in landscape transformation, share knowledge and best practice, and to connect and provide mutual support to landscape-scale projects across the UK.

 

Programme Overview*

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  • 09:30 Registration / refreshments

    10:00 Welcome and opening address | Prof. Bridget Emmett OBE, British Ecological Society

    10:50 Session 1: Landscape and Sea projects: Challenges and Success stories

    11:30 Session 2: Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impacts

    11:55 Structured networking warm up

    12:15 Lunch

    13:15 Session 2: Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impacts (continued)

    14:15 Session 3: How to monitor & measure, with Poster & Exhibitor elevator pitches

    15:15 Exhibition and poster session with refreshments

    17:00 Close

  • 09:00 Arrival

    09:30 Session 4: How to implement and use data

    10:40 Break and refreshments

    11:10 Session 5: Telling stories with impact

    12:20 Lunch

    13:20 Session 6: Inspiring Impact Stories from Landscape and Seas

    14:30 Summary and feedback | Prof. Bridget Emmett OBE, British Ecological Society

    15:00 Close