The Peat Café 2026-27
Lindow Moss: exposed pines (copyright Mel Giles)
An online, interdisciplinary lunchtime lecture series focused on wetlands
This is our fifth season of hosting the Peat Café; this year, its run by PhD student Isobel Harvey, Nicki Whitehouse and Mel Giles, with others dipping in and out. The Peat Café builds on the network developed through both the University of Glasgow’s Bright Edge Deep and Discipline Hopping Wetlands initiative and Peat: Past Present and Future network based at the University of Manchester and the north-west more widely.
Please feel free to dig in and out of the schedule according to your interests and additional ideas and talks about projects and initiatives are most welcome! Please feel free to share and invite other participants who may be interested in the programme. If you wish to be added to the mailing list then please contact one of us.
2026-2027
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1-2pm 7th September (Monday) |
Andreas Heinemayer (University of York) To burn or not to burn? Assessing various claims about upland peatlands and their management considering carbon, water, biodiversity and wildfires Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/31759338254639?p=XZYG4Whajuc0y9SLXy Meeting ID: 317 593 382 546 39 Passcode: ta7Lc3RG |
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1-2pm 5th October (Monday) |
Angela Gallego-Saga (Exeter University) Arctic peatlands: an expanding or collapsing biome? Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/346243334262083?p=bHiG93x54BElYKtLgE Meeting ID: 346 243 334 262 083 Passcode: 8Jd7Sw3n |
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1-2pm 2nd November (Monday) |
Reed Goodman (Clemson University, Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science) Living with Water: An Historical Ecology of South Carolina’s Tidal Rice Landscapes Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/380174040886695?p=3raqOt39SlI9AQp9IR Meeting ID: 380 174 040 886 695 Passcode: k8YV9Bd9 |
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1-2pm 7th December (Monday) |
Catherine Keane (University of Glasgow) Hydraulic infrastructure and the late antique church: Aspects of healing, sanctity, and provision Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/311002904830059?p=axOLiB0tbPdpkP5fzY Meeting ID: 311 002 904 830 059 Passcode: 59xs7GU7 |
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1-2pm 4th January (Monday) |
Henry Chapman (University of Birmingham) and Michelle Farrell (University of Coventry) Digging into the archives; or 'how do you reconstruct the depositional context of a bog body when all the peat has gone?' Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/311470485982107?p=aaqu7q7PNbCGVJJO1B Meeting ID: 311 470 485 982 107 Passcode: vR3V5hm2 |
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1-2pm 1st February (Monday) |
Ben Jennings and Abbi Flint WetFutures: multi-method approaches to the cultural meaning of peatlands Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/323406441374612?p=W4ii4rSYbFhbZXsM6y Meeting ID: 323 406 441 374 612 Passcode: Ld7qN7mZ |
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1-2pm 1st March (Monday) |
Kat Hopwood Lewis, Neil Redfern and Melanie Giles Risley Moss: bog heritage and regeneration Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/366736296427930?p=HvVmbk7dGPagbpkcZx Meeting ID: 366 736 296 427 930 Passcode: Es6na3HK |
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1-2pm 5th April (Monday) |
Andrea Brock (Dartmouth College) Using geoarchaeological coring survey to reconstruct Rome’s dynamic riverbank Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/372197428311268?p=Vw8KeouOpAR6dXEFbV Meeting ID: 372 197 428 311 268 Passcode: Kq7ov7kb |
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1-2pm 10th May (moved to second Monday due to Bank Holiday) |
Yijie Zhuang (UCL) Domestication' of water in prehistoric lower Yangtze River Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/325336571679452?p=nSoR4BZojhzZQ2APVH Meeting ID: 325 336 571 679 452 Passcode: SE3dJ6Jq |
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1-2pm 7th June (Monday) |
Rose Ferraby and Nancy Campbell: Small Finds (the creative power of peatlands) Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33743428835787?p=h046LLCcBtf64TilvE Meeting ID: 337 434 288 357 87 Passcode: zn2yP64y |
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1-2pm 5th July (Monday) |
Wetland heritage discussion event led by Mel with guests Anwen Cooper, Ben Gearey, and Neil Redfern Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/323268071807612?p=2Mo6mhT6H5hozXZxzd Meeting ID: 323 268 071 807 612 Passcode: cX6y4Ye3 |
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2nd August |
No talk |
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1-2pm 6th September (Monday) |
Lucy Lee and Rose Ferraby: Sphagnum Pioneers: Community involvement and creative practice in peatland restoration Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/379097380131228?p=kIa2PWwmgiRQo9YrJA Meeting ID: 379 097 380 131 228 Passcode: uz2px3h9 |
The Peat Café 2025-26
This is our fourth season of hosting the Peat Café; this year, its run by PhD student Isobel Harvey, Nicki Whitehouse and Mel Giles, with others dipping in and out. The Peat Café builds on the network developed through both the University of Glasgow’s Bright Edge Deep and Discipline Hopping Wetlands initiative and Peat: Past Present and Future network based at the University of Manchester and the north-west more widely.
Please feel free to dig in and out of the schedule according to your interests and additional ideas and talks about projects and initiatives are most welcome! Please feel free to share and invite other participants who may be interested in the programme.
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1-2pm Monday 1 September 2025
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Dr Daniel Calderbank (University of Glasgow) and Professor Jaafar Jotheri (University of Al-Qadisiyah) Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 6 October 2025
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Dr Anne Caldwell (Open University) Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 3 November 2025
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Jennifer Carey (Lund University) Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 1 December 2025
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Student/ECR session: Recent Insights from Pollen and Soil Studies
Chair: Issy Harvey Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 5 January 2026
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Dr Michael Muir (University of Glasgow) Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 2 February 2026
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Dr Joshua Cohen (University of Leeds), Dr Ursula Balderson, Prof Julia Martin-Ortega Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 2 March 2026
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Prof Jill Robbie (University of Glasgow) Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Tuesday 7 April 2026
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Student/ECR session: Recent Research on Bog Heads
Chair: Issy Harvey Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Tuesday 5 May 2026
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Prof Naomi Milner (University of Bristol) Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 1 June 2026
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Dr Mathew Adeleye (University of Cambridge) Join Zoom Meeting |
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1-2pm Monday 6 July 2026 |
Dr Phil Stastney (University of Cambridge) Join Microsoft Teams Meeting Meeting ID: 350 575 736 068 140 |
The Peat Café 2024-25
This is our third season of hosting the Peat Café; this year, its is run by Nicki Whitehouse and Mel Giles, with others dipping in and out. The Peat Café builds on the network developed through both the University of Glasgow’s Bright Edge Deep and Discipline Hopping Wetlands initiative and Peat: Past Present and Future network based at the University of Manchester and the north-west more widely.
Please feel free to dig in and out of the schedule according to your interests and additional ideas and talks about projects and initiatives are most welcome! Please feel free to share and invite other participants who may be interested in the programme.
Date |
Speaker and Title |
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7 October 2024, 1-2 pm |
Matt Aikenhead, James Hutton Institute: Mapping peatland condition and greenhouse gas emissions using remote sensing and legacy data
Join Zoom Meeting |
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11 November 2024, 1-2pm |
Michael Stratigos, University of Aberdeen: The Restorer Pays Principle?: Wetland Archaeology and Habitat Restoration Join Zoom Meeting |
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2 December 2024, 1-2 pm |
John Wedgwood Clarke, Rose Ferraby and Fiona Benson, University of Exeter: Bog Talk: poetry and people in peatlands Join Zoom Meeting |
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6 January 2025, 1-2 pm |
Mans Schepers, University of Groningen: Crop farming on coastal clay and clay-on-peat landscapes in the Netherlands. Archaeological and experimental observations Join Zoom Meeting |
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3 February 2025, 1-2pm |
, University of Glasgow: Where Land and Waters Meet’; 10,000 years of human eco-dynamics within a ‘Wildscape’ Join Zoom Meeting |
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3 March 2025, 1-2pm |
Carl Sayer, UCL: Resurrecting the undead – ghost ponds Join Zoom Meeting |
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1 April 2025, 1-2 pm |
Martin Gillard, SW Peatland Partnership: The Historic Environment and Peatland Restoration in the South West Join Zoom Meeting |
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5 May 2025, 1-2 pm |
Adrian Bass, University of Glasgow: The RESPECT project Join Zoom Meeting |
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2 June 2025, 1-2pm |
Christina Fredengren, Signe Johannesen, University of Stokholm and Artist: The Kvarntorp body, and Anthropocene folklore Join Zoom Meeting |
The Peat Café 2023-24
After Michael Muir’s wonderful hosting of the first year of this programme (building on the network developed through both the University of Glasgow’s Bright Edge Deep and Discipline Hopping Wetlands initiative), we have offered to take up hosting the second season, which will run on zoom:
This year, we are expanding the network to draw in participants from the Peat: Past Present and Future network based at the University of Manchester and the north-west more widely.
Please feel free to dip in and out of the schedule according to your interests, and additional ideas for talks about projects and initiatives would be most welcome! Please feel free to share and invite other participants who might be interested in the programme.
The lecture schedule so far:
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Month |
Speaker and Title |
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Monday 23 October 1pm |
News round-up - a chance to informally share research plans, activities, fieldwork or even mossy, boggy daytrips! Please come along with an image or idea to share in an open format session… |
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Monday 13 November 1pm |
Bianca Cavazzin (University of Glasgow) Past and future: biomarkers in peatlands |
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Monday 4 December 1pm |
Joanne Tippett (University of Manchester) Time and change – place-based sustainability learning with the RoundView |
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Tuesday 9 January 1pm |
James Palmer (University of Bristol) and Kärg Karma (University of Birmingham) Carbon Futures in the Mire |
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Monday 5 February 1pm |
Abbi Flint (University of Newcastle) WetFutures: poetic inquiry as method |
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Monday 4 March 1pm |
Nye Merrill-Glover (University of Bristol) The Marling Festivals: Environmental Metaphor in Eighteenth Century England |
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Monday 3 April 1pm |
Mike Longden (Lancashire Wildlife Trust) Lancashire Wildlife Trust wetland restoration project |
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Monday 6 May 1pm |
Melanie Giles (University of Manchester) and Liz Ellis Mossfox (a creative collaboration) |
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Monday 3 June 1pm |
Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester) Peaty Politics |
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Monday 1 July 1pm |
Roy Van Beek (University of of Waganingen, Netherlands An international survey of Bog Bodies (part of the HomeTurf project) |
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Monday 12 August 1pm |
The 40th anniversary of Lindow man: a round-up of celebration events, community creativity, education and bog restoration projects |
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September |
Ideas for speakers welcome! |