{"id":378,"date":"2016-05-17T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T10:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/?p=378"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:04:20","slug":"beth-brockett-natural-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/2016\/05\/17\/beth-brockett-natural-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Brockett (Natural England)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Beth Brockett<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject:<\/strong> Interdisciplinary PhD in Soil-Plant Ecology and Human\/Critical Geography. Doctoral thesis: &#8216;An interdisciplinary approach to mapping soil carbon&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Graduated:<\/strong> 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>College<\/strong>: Graduate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are you now and what are you doing?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have just started a job as a Lead Land Management Adviser at Natural England. My &#8216;patch&#8217; is in the SW Peak District.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you like to do next?<\/strong><br \/>\nHappy where I am. I&#8217;d like to publish some papers from my thesis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to study at Lancaster?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was keen to work with a particular academic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your favourite part of your degree and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nI both loved, and occasionally loathed, the challenge of doing an interdisciplinary PhD. I don&#8217;t think that academia has made space for truly interdisciplinary research &#8211; but overall I really enjoyed the intellectual and practical challenges of creating a coherent piece of work which drew from different disciplinary traditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you think your time at Lancaster prepared you for what you\u2019re currently doing?<\/strong><br \/>\nI took quite an independent approach to researching my doctoral thesis &#8211; this developed my confidence working in upland environments and with farmers and other land management professionals. Being taught about the National Vegetation Classification system by John Rodwell was a highlight and provided me with a solid foundation in vegetation surveying, which I developed through my fieldwork.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you enjoy most about your time at Lancaster? (Including extra-curricular activities and beyond?<\/strong><br \/>\nWorking alongside and getting to know my peers &#8211; a supportive, interesting, intellectually curious and fun group of people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can connect with Beth through LinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/beth-brockett-7aa02120?trk=hp-identity-name\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Working as Lead Land Management Adviser at Natural England, Beth covers the South West Peak District&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[14,10,29,11],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pg-alumni","tag-2016-graduate","tag-graduate-college","tag-phd","tag-postgraduate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/02\/Beth-Brockett.png?fit=250%2C250","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rD16-66","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}