Nature Play Nature Conservation Project

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are creating a Nature Play area within the Garden. This project is part of a wider programme to transform an area of the

Nature Play: Nature Conservation project

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are looking to create a permanent Nature Play area within the Garden. This project is part of a wider programme to transform an area of the Garden into a valuable community resource. The aim of the Nature Play: Nature Conservation project is to inform practice guidelines in achieving a balance between establishing and mai

ntaining habitats for biodiversity while, at the same time, creating opportunities for children and their families to have close contact with nature. During the research, observed sessions will be look at the impacts of play behaviours on nature conservation in the context of a Botanical Garden. The study will also look at how visitors to the Garden, both children and adults, interact with nature. We are hosting 6 research sessions over 6 months, each with a different intervention as a focus for each session. These are as follows:

Wood Listen Stone Meadow Earth Water

Clare, the researcher on this project from the University of Edinburgh, will observe the visitors at the interventions and record their behaviours, positioning and the way they interact in the setting. Sarah, also from the University will support this role and use some of the data in her Masters thesis. Sabine, our film-maker will record visitors using the interventions and her footage will be used to support the research and in the production of an accompanying film. If you prefer not to be recorded, please let us know. By signing in and wearing a name badge you give consent for yourself and your child to be filmed. Additional volunteers from The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), a partner in this study, may also observe interactions from time to time. We ask for your email details in order that we can contact you after your visit with a follow-up questionnaire. This is a joint research project:

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh - Ian Edwards
University of Edinburgh - Researchers: Clare Nugent and Sarah Hutcheon
Film-maker/photographer - Sabine Hellmann
Community Engagement/Participant recruitment - Jaimie MacDonald
The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)

The research is funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK

We want to invite you and your child/children (5 years and under) along to these FREE events. Older children are welcome but the research is not focused on them. Themed FREE events will take place on :

Tues 29th April- Wood
Wed 21st May- Listen
Mon 23rd June- Stone
Mon 28th July- Meadow
*w/c August 25th- Earth
*w/c September 22nd- Water

10-12pm and 2-4pm

We would love to see you and your child/children at as many of the events as possible! Register online for any of the above dates at http://natureplayconserve.eventbrite.co.uk/

*These dates will be confirmed and details posted on the project page

07/04/2015

Hello everyone!
If you took part in the Nature Play:Nature Conservation project last year please check your inbox for an email from us. We have completed the report and film and ask that you review and respond to these by the 20th April. We wish to air the film at a conference in USA on the 27th April and also share the film via social media and the RBGE website. We hope that you will be happy with this and look forward to your responses. Kind wishes
Jaimie MacDonald

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27/12/2014

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21/12/2014

Happy Winter Solstice to you all! The longest night of the year and a chance to celebrate all that Nature has brought and taught you. xx

14/09/2014

Never fear there are spaces here! We've still got spaces left for Monday 22nd September 10-12 and 2-4pm. The theme is water and we have even installed a brand new wooden platform across the pond so you can spend some time pond dipping. :) we really hope you can come along for this, our last research day.

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03/09/2014

fabulous news! not often I'm personally part of a trend...but I love this one!

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03/09/2014

Jay Griffiths on Kith 11th September 7-8pm
Join Jay Griffiths, award winning writer and author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, as she discusses her latest book Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape which examines what it means to be a child, and the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. Griffiths explores why many children in Euro-American cultures seem unhappy -- and why children in many traditional cultures seemed happier. Moving from communities in West Papua and the Arctic to the ostracised young people of contemporary Britain, she asks why we have enclosed our children in a consumerist cornucopia but denied them the freedoms of space, time and deep play. She uses history, philosophy, language and literature to illustrate children's affinity for the natural world and the essential quest element of childhood. http://www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/event-details/3603

02/09/2014

delightful! let's help make it happen! :)

27/08/2014

Thanks so much again to everyone who came along to the EARTH day yesterday. another beautiful day! yippee!
Also, can you help? one of the wee girls who was with us Yesterday lost her sunhat. It was a bright pink baby sun hat. If you have it or handed it in to anyone at RBGE then please let me know. Thank you so much! Jaimie x

25/08/2014

DON'T MISS OUT! make sure you BOOK your place on the last 2 sessions of Nature Play Nature Conservation research project- http://www.natureplaynatureconserve.eventbrite.co.uk/

Nature Play Nature Conservation research project Royal Botanics Gardens Edinburgh is using Eventbrite to organize 4 upcoming events. Check out Royal Botanics Gardens Edinburgh's events, learn more, or contact this organizer.

25/08/2014

There are still plenty of spaces left for our EARTH session tomorrow. 10-12 and 2-4pm. pass it on and have some nature play fun with friends. BOOK here- http://www.natureplaynatureconserve.eventbrite.co.uk/

14/08/2014

Know someone who has children of 5 and under? Someone who hasn't spent much/any time at the Botanics before and lives near the Botanics? We've still got spaces available for our EARTH/MUD-August 26th and WATER/Pond dipping- Sept 22nd reaserch sessions. they are going to be great fun! PLEASE SHARE! www.natureplaynatureconserve.eventbrite.co.uk

01/08/2014

Don't forget, there is a drop-in Nature Play day at the Botanics tomorrow run by TCV Scotland- 11-4pm- Demonstration garden http://www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/event-details/3412

Nature Play Families Day Enjoy some nature play activities and find out about RBGE's Nature Play: Nature Conservation project that is helping young children to love nature.

With The Conservation Volunteers

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