{"id":20,"date":"2025-04-27T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uocdegreeshow.uk\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:19:42","slug":"wildlife-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uocdegreeshow.uk\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our students use their creativity, technical skills and scientific knowledge to create compelling wildlife stories through media, with the aim of communicating important conservation messages and making positive change. Much of our wildlife is in crisis and needs our support, with 47,000 species threatened with extinction (https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org<\/a> in April 2025).\u202f Our students have a passion for wildlife and the natural world – and use their lens craft skills in filmmaking and photography to communicate the beauty and fragility of our environment and its inhabitants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
Ethical wildlife photography and documentary practice is central to the course ethos, with careful consideration of the environment when working outdoors on location, in often challenging locations and changing weather conditions.\u202f Wildlife media professionals have extensive fieldcraft knowledge alongside sophisticated lens craft – and this is what our students have developed with a strong skillset of wildlife identification, tracking and behaviour with in-depth understanding of biodiversity, habitat and conservation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


This academic year’s graduating students have produced varied media outputs including series of photographs on a wide variety of subjects, they’ve crafted natural history documentaries and edited their own short films, produced websites, blogs and vlogs, plus created interactive digital art\u202fprojects.\u202f They’ve worked together in teams and individually on solo projects, collaborated with external organisations on important conservation initiatives, and have showcased their work in national competitions – demonstrating creativity, imagination, perseverance, talent and hard work. 
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We are proud of their achievements and thought-provoking work – we wish them all well on their onward individual journeys to employment and postgraduate study – and take this moment to collectively share and celebrate their success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Baxter MA PGCE | Course Leader <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rewilder\/land manager, ecologist, photographer and filmmaker 
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I am passionate about nature, wildlife, and the environment and bringing endangered species to the forefront of people\u2019s attention through different media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a significant and life-changing injury, I was fortunate enough to take charge of rewilding and then managing a 12.5 acre tract of \u2018impoverished\u2019 semi-rural grassland, Wild Lea, in Yorkshire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With guidance from the Woodland Trust, I was successfully accepted onto the national Grow Back Greener initiative. Over 3,000 native saplings, three wildflower meadows, a pond, an area of Wax Caps and two broods of Barn Owls later, I have hosted visits from nationwide professional groups, and my work was featured in the Woodland Trust\u2019s Broadleaf magazine as well as on local BBC radio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studying Wildlife Media at the University of Cumbria has given me a fantastic opportunity to develop the skills needed to promote wildlife and the environment in the media, through photography and videography and to further develop my professional network. I was thrilled to have been nominated for a regional student RTS award in their Saving the Planet category for my short film, \u2018Vanishing Vipers,\u2019 and then to actually win it was amazing! \u2018Vanishing Vipers\u2019 has also been showcased at the recent North Pennines National Landscape Northern Adders Conference at the Tullie in Carlisle and in Budapest, Hungary, where I was invited to attend the LIFE Project\u2019s Hungarian Meadow Viper Conference and Field Study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My aim is to continue to spotlight endangered, misunderstood and under-represented species such as amphibians and reptiles, which are the primary focus of my work in this exhibition.  I intend to continue my professional life, post-university, by setting Wild Lea up as a CIC (Community Interest Company) to further share its magic with community groups and schools and to provide meaningful, real life, engagement with, and media representation of, nature for many years to come. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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