Thomas Rickard
Independent researcher and facilitator working on environmental governance, rights of nature, and what it means to include rivers in decisions about their future.
What I do
My work takes a lot of different forms — research, facilitation, teaching, expert advisory. The common thread is governance: who gets included in decisions about the environment, and who — or what — gets left out.
Research
Research in environmental governance, rights of nature, and participatory process. I work with universities, public bodies, and NGOs — and I’m used to moving between these worlds.
Practice
I design and facilitate processes where something needs to shift — in how a group thinks, decides, or relates to its environment. I’ve worked on staff consultations, river rights assemblies, and gatherings that give nature a voice in the room.
Writing
I write for different audiences — peer-reviewed journals, movement reports, public essays. Some of it is technical; some is closer to advocacy. It’s all trying to work out the same set of questions.
Get in touch
I’m most useful where things don’t fit neatly into one box: research that needs facilitating, governance that needs designing, movements that need someone who can talk to academics and river guardians in the same week. If that sounds like your project, get in touch.