2017 Communities in Nature Liliana Derewnicka BGCI

Slides and pdf from the PlantNetwork Annual Conference 26th and 27th April 2017 ‘Connecting gardens; engaging people’ Held at The Botanic Cottage, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Liliana Derewnicka, Education Co-ordinator, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)

Liliana Derewnicka has a BSc, from the University of Glasgow in Molecular and Cellular Biology, and an MSc, from Imperial College London, in Science Communication. In her current role, as BGCI’s Education Co-ordinator she is involved in developing, delivering and supporting public engagement activities in botanic gardens around the world. BGCI’s Communities in Nature programme, which seeks to support botanic gardens to work towards social justice, has become an underlying ideology of the department. Therefore, participatory and inclusive approaches are encouraged in each strand of Liliana’s work. Currently, Liliana is involved in project management of BigPicnic, BGCI’s Horizon 2020 project; encouraging public debate on food security across Europe and in Uganda. Liliana is also supporting the

development of the course content for LearnToEngage – a new modular blended learning course funded by Erasmus+.

LearnToEngage aims to build botanic gardens capacity in interpretation, science communication, working with diverse

audiences and research and evaluation.