About Me

I am a volunteer ranger at RSPB Pagham Harbour and I volunteer with the Woodlands Trust’s Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs and the National Trust at Petworth Park leading walks to develop public awareness of lichens

I am a member of the British Naturalists’ Association, the British Lichen Society, the British Bryological Society, and the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.

I wrote posts about my nature journeys in Sussex, trying to identify what I saw. These posts give details of how to get to these sites by public transport in order to promote public transport use. I do not add any more to this website, but all of my previous These can be accessed here: https://www.simelliott.net

You can follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sim-elliott.bsky.social

Qualifications: BMus, PGCE (Primary Education), MA (History of Art: dissertation on the representation of flowers and landscape features in late Byzantine mosaics in Constantinople), MSc (Applied Positive Psychology, with a particular focus on nature and well being)