Speakers:
Speaker 1: Kanchana Wiset is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Nature Connection Project at the University of Tasmania. She is a human geographer specialising in stakeholder engagement, community forestry, climate change and social safeguards, forest governance, tenure rights, gender, FPIC, and human–nature connections. She has experience delivering capacity development programs and community workshops across Southeast Asia. In her free time, she enjoys exploring nature, bushwalking, gardening, and watching the sunset at the beach.
Speaker 2: Dr Pauline Marsh leads the Venture Out Living Lab research team at the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre at the University of Tasmania. The Venture Out team alongside people living with dementia and community green space custodians to create dementia-inclusive nature hubs. They aim to keep people living with dementia and their care-partners connected to nature to help people to live well and enjoy the outdoors.