Groundwork: Young people, green jobs, and health
This Groundwork briefing launched in Green Careers Week 2024rovides a summary of the key findings from research designed with Groundwork’s Youth Advisory Board. The project explored how young people want policy to respond to issues that are important to them, such as green jobs and mental health. The second briefing [...]
Green Jobs for Nature: Is There a Typical Career Path?
Are you interested in a career in the green sector? Did you know that there is a variety of career paths into green jobs? Annie Robinson, CIEEM Scotland Coordinator and Green Jobs for Nature Partnership Officer, shares her advice on how to get started with a Green Job for Nature. [...]
Conservation traineeship opportunity in Argyll & the Inner Hebrides
Butterfly Conservation is offering an exciting 12-month traineeship opportunity in Argyll & the Inner Hebrides as part of the Species on the Edge programme. The role will be focused on learning biological recording of butterflies and moths with opportunities to work on other species within the wider programme too.
A Force of Nature – pathways to nature-based jobs
This NBN news story (7 November 2024) describes how a coalition of charity and non-profit organisations have joined forces to call on the government and the environmental sectors to do more to create accessible pathways into nature-based jobs, to diversify the sector and deliver our ambitions for nature recovery.
Training for success – why we want to help more people get into peatland restoration
NatureScot (27 June 2024) explains why we need to increase the number of people and businesses with the skills and knowledge to carry out the peatland restoration work. Discover how Peatland ACTION’s Workforce Development Team aim to do this, and how you can access training.
Wildlife Conservation Internship Grants
The national Biodiversity Network (NBN) have shared this funding opportunity in their latest bulletin. Are you a British graduate, or have you recently finished your undergraduate degree at a university in the UK? Are you looking to work in conservation in the UK but finding it hard to get anywhere [...]
Inclusion in Green Jobs
This Nesta summary report on Inclusion in Green Jobs (November 2023) is based on interviews with 16 UK women actively seeking work or education. The study aimed to understand barriers and facilitators influencing women’s interest in green skills training compared to men. This highlights the need to share information on [...]
New film spotlights the benefits of healthy peatlands
A new Peatland ACTION film has just been released that highlights the landscape-scale benefits of peatland restoration across Ben Wyvis and the River Peffrey. This is one of a suite of Peatland ACTION case studies that focus on landowners, managers, and contractors explaining in their own words why they think peatland [...]
