Staff profiles
Geoff Cartwright
BA (Hons), PGCFHE, MPhil
Phone 0114 225 2953
E-mail g.a.cartwright@shu.ac.uk
Geoff has a diverse background in habitat and visitor management having worked as a senior ranger at a country park, as an ecologist for a local authority and, immediately before joining the university, as a countryside management officer. He has been heavily involved in both strategic and practical management and, during his time as a countryside management officer, he was responsible for the creation of a major urban, wetland nature reserve through a difficult reclamation project in the city of Sheffield. He also acted as the chairperson of the Trust that runs the visitor and education service at the reserve and, in that role, acted as line manager for the Trust's education manager.
Geoff also has a background as a course director in providing nationally-acclaimed training services for in-service countryside professionals. In view of his recognised experience and expertise in the compilation of management plans he was asked to take responsibility for developing and running an annual residential course on countryside management planning attended by people from diverse geographical locations (including Malaysia, Malta and the Netherlands) and diverse professional interests. Other courses included countryside ranger training and integrated woodland management.
Research interests
- habitat and species management particularly their integration into reclamation and regeneration projects
- interaction of people and wildlife in the landscape
- historic effects people have had in shaping the visible landscape
Selected publications
Numerous reports produced for Sheffield City Council and the Blackburn Meadows Trust, including
- Wildlife and Geology in the Lower Don Valley, Sheffield
- Wildlife and Leisure in the Lower Don Valley, Sheffield
- Blackburn Meadows Nature Reserve Feasibility Report
- Management Proposals for Beauchief Ponds, Sheffield
- The Shire Brook Valley Countryside Plan (revision)
- Loxley Valley Management Plan (revision)
- Wincobank Hill Management Feasibility Study
- Contributions to the Sheffield Nature Conservation Strategy
- Contributions to the Sheffield Unitary Development Plan
- Loxley and Wadsley Commons Management Plan
- Designation of 14 Local Nature Reserves in Sheffield (feasibility report)
- Education and Interpretation Strategy for Blackburn Meadows Nature Reserve
- Blackburn Meadows Management Plan
Rotherham I. D. and Cartwright, G.A. (2006) Water and wetlands: their conservation and re-creation in a social landscape - the vital role of project champions. Proceedings of the IALE Conference, Water and the Landscape: The Landscape Ecology of Freshwater Ecosystems, 321-326.
Cartwright, G.A. (2004) Wetland enhancement on an urban river: Issues of social and economic regeneration. MPhil. Sheffield Hallam University.
Rotherham, I.D. and Cartwright G.A. (2001) Urban Wetland Conservation - case studies in environmental and economic renewal. In: Atherden, M. (Ed.) Wetlands in the Landscape: archaeology, conservation, heritage. PLACE Research Centre, York. 150-154.
