Dorset 10th to 12th September, 2024
National Heathland Conference
10th to 12th September, 2024 at the Springfield Country Hotel, Wareham in Dorset
Booking is open!
To whet your appetite...
View full agendaTuesday 10 September, 2024
How “wild” can heaths be?
Speaker: Prof. James Bullock, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Wednesday 11 September, 2024
A day spent visiting the UK's first 'super' National Nature Reserve at Purbeck Heaths
Coordinator: David Brown, National Trust
Thursday 12 September, 2024
Heathland microclimates
Speaker: Marijke Thoonen, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium
Latest News
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Read moreGeorgina Sharp
21st June 2024: Speaking on day 1 of this year’s conference is Georgina Sharp, Project officer for the Cannock Chase Special Area of Conservation Partnership since May 2023. Georgina is…
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Read moreAgenda now available
1st June 2024: Just three months to go and the agenda is taking shape. The last few speakers are being confirmed and the finer details being pinned down. Book now…
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Read moreAaron Bhambra
31st May 2024: Speaking on day 3 will be PhD student and entomologist in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Birmingham, Aaron Bhambra. Aaron…
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Read moreDr Scott Pedley
May 19th 2024: As the programme comes together, watch this space for news! The first speaker to be announced, speaking on day 1, is Dr Scott Pedley, a Senior Lecturer…
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Read moreBooking open!
8th May 2024: We’re delighted to announce that booking is open for the National Heathland Conference 2024. 10th to 12th September, 2024 at the Springfield Country Hotel, Wareham in Dorset….
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Read moreNational Heathland Conference CIC
25th April 2024: We’re delighted to announce that National Heathland Conference CIC now exists as a fully registered legal entity. What does this mean? As a Community Interest Company we…
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Update
2nd April 2024: Apologies, we had hoped to get booking open by now. We are almost there. The contract has been signed with the venue and the programme is coming…
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Read moreMeet the team
Another key member of the conference team is Chris Panter. Chris is Technical Director at Footprint Ecology, where he has worked since 2014. His interests lie in big data, analysis…
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Read moreMeet the team
This website, the conference, and indeed the last two conferences, are the passion project of Steve Fry. Formerly the Senior Ranger at Chobham Common National Nature Reserve in Surrey, latterly…
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Update
21st September 2023: Booking opens March 2024. Please bear with us, we’re in the early stages of setting up the conference and putting together a steering committee. We’ll publish more…
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Welcome
30th August 2023: We’re delighted to unveil this new website, the first dedicated website for the National Heathland Conference. If you haven’t already done so, put a date in your…
What and why?
This website and the small organisation behind it have a simple core purpose, the facilitation and promotion of a biannual conference for land managers, researchers and enthusiasts who work on or study heathland in the UK.
We believe there is an important, arguably critical, need for periodic face to face conferences where information and experience can be shared. Past conferences have clearly shown there are many benefits not only in the pooling of knowledge but in the creation of friendships that last decades and the regular renewal of acquaintances that otherwise are increasingly online.
