Kevin Edge
Communicating Wildlife coordinator, Kevin Edge is an independent researcher and writer specialising in wildlife communication and public engagement.
He is currently a Back-from-the Brink volunteer helping with invertebrate surveys on Dorset heathland. He assisted with the organisation and chairing of a BftB panel-led public discussion on citizen science held at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society in March 2019.
He worked as a Visiting Tutor to the BA (Hons) Graphic Design programme at the Arts University Bournemouth between 2013 and 2018. In 2015 and 2016 Kevin delivered workshops to undergraduates in the Cardiff School of Art & Design.
He has a PhD in social philosophy from Cardiff University (2009) and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College, London (2012). Kevin’s MSc dissertation addressed citizen environmentalism & water quality issues.
Early in his career he was a graphics curator at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. He then became a full-time lecturer in the Cardiff School of Art & Design, leaving in 2011. Kevin has tutored graphic communication, fine art & illustration undergraduates and also postgraduate history and practice students. He has extensive experience of course unit/module design, course management & unit leadership, studio workshop facilitation and formal assessment.
In 2013 Kevin worked as a volunteer researcher for the Horniman Museum Aquarium, London and wrote a 90-page report for the aquarium team on informal adult engagement in public aquariums. He presented the report’s findings at the UK’s first National Aquarium Conference at Bristol Zoo in October 2013. In 2014 Kevin wrote & illustrated two articles for the Horniman Museum & Gardens website.
He spoke on the theme of marine conservation and sustainability legislation in Wales at a January 2016 Cardiff School of Art & Design Conference, Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Kevin has coordinated British Dragonfly Society input for a one-day Wildlife Gardening Event at the London Wetland Centre (May 19 2018). He also coordinated the week-long British Dragonfly Society (BDS) residency at the same venue in Barnes as part of the UK-wide Dragonfly Week, July 2018. He has recently organised a 2019 BDS Dragonfly Week residency at the Hengistbury Head Nature Reserve in Dorset.
He a member of The Marine Conservation Society, Butterfly Conservation, British Dragonfly Society and Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust.
A full academic CV is available on request.
