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Staff profiles
Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis is the Programme Leader for the FdScs in Horticulture. Trained at the renowned Writtle College, with a wealth of industry experience, Richard has over twenty years of experience teaching horticulture at all levels. Consultancy work and lecturing regularly take him as far afield as Uganda, where Richard currently works as part of the DRIP scheme, training villagers in horticultural techniques and the sustainable use of water.
As well as working in farm management, Richard has been called upon to provide his horticultural expertise to the government, working on their horticultural experimental stations, to the Prince’s Trust where Richard contributed and advised on community projects such as conservation and construction and to ICI’s top fruit production.
At the Welsh College of Horticulture Richard created and ran the special needs department as well as lecturing on a wide range of the college’s horticultural courses.Research interests include the development of sustainable organic horticultural production in third world countries and the relationship between the environment and the control of pests and diseases in organic production.
Dr David Skydmore
David’s first degree, in biology, was undertaken at the University of Manchester. He then completed his doctorate on plant pathology and epidemiology at the University of Wales before carrying out postdoctoral work on the diseases of horticultural crops and forest trees. This work gave David many opportunities for working abroad, including in Australia and New Zealand. David is currently director of “Developing Horticulture Supply Chains” – a project, across Wales, which is researching and improving the supply chains for food and amenity crops, from grower to retailer.
In previous projects, David was Chair and Director of Horticulture Network Wales which developed marketing for horticulture crop growers in Wales and Ireland. He was also chief executive of the Wales Landscape industry Forum. He is a member of the Horticulture Strategy Group for Wales and the management board for the Centre for Alternative Land Use. David teaches modules in horticulture on plant science. He also teaches in landscape on plant use and sustainability, with particular reference to climate change and habitat management and has been awarded 4 RHS medals for garden design.
Peter Styles Dip Hort. (Kew), Dip LA, FLI, FRSA
Peter originally trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew under John Brookes, before going onto study landscape design business at the University of Greenwich. He has his own successful landscape design business, Lingard Styles, based in Welshpool and Shrewsbury.
Peter has considerable knowledge and experience within all aspects of landscape and garden design throughout the UK and abroad. This includes award winning show gardens at Chelsea and three of the National Garden Festivals. He is a Fellow of both the Landscape Institute and the Royal Society of Arts, has broadcast on TV and radio and has contributed to many horticultural and design publications.
Nicola Sweeting
Nicola is a garden designer and horticultural stylist designing a wide range of outdoor spaces for private clients from urban balconies to large country gardens. Nicola is currently Programme Leader for the HNC in Garden Design, lecturing in garden history and theory, conserving and curating heritage gardens, and planting design on both the HNC and the FdA in Art and Design for Landscape.
Having already gained a first class honours degree in History of Art, Nicola will complete her MA in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions at Liverpool University in 2010.
Nicola’s work at Glyndŵr University aims to encourage garden design students to look beyond the practical and horticultural aspects of garden design to consider gardens and garden design philosophically, artistically, historically and socially. Current research interests include the aesthetic experience of landscape.
Tamsin Young
Tamsin Young is the Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Equestrian Psychology. She graduated from the University of Chester in 1996 with a BSc Joint (Hons) in Biology and Geography and an MSc in Environmental Biology. During both degree programmes research undertaken focused on animal behaviour and welfare.
In 2002 she started a PhD researching the welfare challenges facing racehorses, how to assess such challenges and strategies for their alleviation. She is working on this on a part time basis.
Tamsin gained the British Horse Society Assistant Instructors qualification in 1993 and the British Horse Society Intermediate Stable Managers award in 2002.
In 1996 she took up a position at the Welsh College of Horticulture lecturing on further and higher education courses in Equine and Animal Studies. She has taught a range of modules including Animal Behaviour and Animal Biology. In 2002 she was appointed Curriculum Leader for Equine Studies, a position she held until 2008 when she was seconded to Glyndŵr University to become Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Equestrian Psychology.
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