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Lisa’s Voice
Media Contributions
A pioneering and original thinker, Lisa Fenton’s perspectives on bushcraft, culture, and human–nature relationships are regularly sought for podcasts, radio, press, and television. Her clear, engaging voice brings depth and accessibility to complex ideas, making her a trusted contributor across media formats.
Example Media
Contributions
Russell Brand • RADIO X
BBC • Guest ‘Countryfile Magazine’ Podcast
BBC • Guest ‘Woman’s Hour’
Channel 4 • Guest ‘Loose Women’
Speaking Engagements
Lisa’s love of wild places, people, and cultures has taken her on expeditions through demanding climates and remote landscapes, learning directly from those who still carry skilled knowledge of how plants and animals sustain human life, culture, and spirit.
She draws on these encounters with Indigenous and local traditions to show how we can reconnect with our human story and deepen our own experiences of the natural world. With a clarity of vision and a truly unique voice, Lisa takes her audiences on a journey into the ethnosphere—the rich web of human culture, imagination, and relationship with the living world.
Future Speaker Engagements
2020 (now 2021)
RGS Explore Conference. Royal Geographical Society, London
The Ecology of Language: Concept Conservation and Control in a World of ‘Climate Catastrophe’. Lisa will be co-presenting with Dr. Jamie Mcphie (Cumbria Uni) & Dr. David Clarke (Edinburgh Uni)
2020 (now 2021)
Off-Grid Survival Show, UK
Panellist
2021 (now 2022)
Global Bushcraft Symposium, UK
Co-host
2020 (now 2021)
The International Bushcraft Event, Holland
Main Stage Speaker
Historic Speaker Engagements
2019
1st Global Bushcraft Symposium, Alberta, Canada
‘Bumping Heads: Bushcraft & its Cognate Domains.’
Invited Keynote Speaker
2018
8th International Adventure Therapy Conference, Sidney, Australia
'Bushcraft as a Therapeutic Connection to Nature.'
2017
Nature Connections Conference, University of Derby
Presentation 'Bushcraft as Nature Connection'
2017
Royal Geographical Society North West Explore Conference, University of Cumbria
'Bushcraft in Research; Researching Bushcraft'
2013
The Royal Anthropological Institute Post Graduate Seminar, Ideas in Movement, convened by Professor Timothy Ingold, University of Aberdeen
Presentation of thesis: ‘Bushcraft’ and ‘Indigenous knowledge’: transformations of a concept in the modern world.
2010
12th International Congress of Ethnobiology (ICE), Tofino, British Columbia
‘Bushcraft’ and ‘Indigenous knowledge’: transformations of a concept in the modern world’.
Conversations with Lisa
Ever curious to explore not only physical and cultural landscapes of the tangible world, but equally, the philosophical and existential frontiers of our Age.
As an academic, Lisa fully appreciates the power in thinking with others and the sharing of experiences and intellectual positions. It is often at the intersections of disciplines that transformational ideas can emerge. Lisa invites others into lively conversations that inspire.