Our staff
Liz Rees: Green Space for Health Director (maternity cover)
Liz has worked in project management and senior leadership roles in a diverse range of organisations across the third sector for over 15 years. She is a committed climate campaigner and advocate for systems thinking. Liz is passionate about creating access to green space for marginalised communities, active travel, the move to a plant-based food system and helping people learn how to grow food in small urban spaces. Outside of her role with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, she also sits on the board of a social enterprise in Cardiff which provides learning and opportunities for the local community to take action on the climate and nature crisis.
Dan Loveard: Green Space for Health Project Manager
Dan is an experienced community lead having spent a decade managing and delivering a diverse range of environmental and health projects across the UK. He comes to us from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust where he played an active role both operationally and strategically in bringing about nature’s recovery and connecting people from all walks of life with nature. This included managing a successful green health project during Covid, focussing on reducing loneliness and social isolation in communities along with delivering habitat creation and restoration projects in collaboration with communities and partner stakeholders to help transform those spaces for nature and people. Dan manages our Trees Call to Action Fund programme, supporting and advising NHS sites looking to improve their estates for biodiversity, climate and human health.
Neil Ingram: Trees and Woodlands Delivery Lead
Neil started at CSH in August 2023, and brings a decade of conservation forestry experience to support CSH’s delivery of tree planting on the NHS estate. He has a Master’s degree in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources.
Anna Kellner: Green Health Routes Project Lead
Anna started her position as Green Health Routes Project Lead in January 2025. She is leading the development of new Green Health Routes in Chopwell Woods and Guisborough Forest in the North-East in partnership with Forestry England. Anna comes from an academic background, having completed an M(Res) in forest conservation value, and is now completing a PhD in rewilding and predator-prey ecology with the University of Aberdeen. She has experience with running community engagement events, project management and spending a lot of time in the forest. She is passionate about making forests accessible so the wellbeing benefits can be enjoyed by all.
Lucy Kennedy: Senior Nature Recovery Ranger, Notts.
Lucy joined the team in June 2025 as Senior Nature Recovery Ranger covering Nottinghamshire. Lucy has 15+ years experience of bringing people together with gardening and nature, primarily in urban settings. Lucy has undertaken a range of roles that have seen her do everything from delivering training, developing volunteer schemes and improving inclusion and wellbeing opportunities. As well as enjoying the development and strategic side, Lucy has vast experience of practical gardening and conservation too. She isn’t afraid to get stuck in with digging, sawing and planting! Above all though, she enjoys sharing the joy of experiencing nature and the outdoors with other people. Lucy will supporting the other rangers in the ‘Healthy by Nature’ project, as well as working across five sites in Mansfield and Nottingham, improving the biodiversity, gardening spaces and opportunities for patients and communities to get involved.
Nick White: Nature Recovery Ranger, Liverpool
Nick has over 25 years’ experience in countryside management and community engagement. He’s worked at both a strategic and operational level, leading nature conservation and community engagement projects across urban parks, hospital grounds, countryside sites and woodlands, including two SSI Nature Reserves. Based in hospitals in Liverpool, Nick is responsible for delivering a programme of work which helps improves biodiversity and the health and wellbeing of staff and patients.
Ruth Boyle: Nature Recovery Ranger, Dorset
Ruth Joined CSH as a Nature Recovery Ranger in June 2025. She is passionate about healing our relationship with nature and making green spaces accessible to all. Ruth has an academic background in life sciences, having graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the University of Bristol in 2024. She is also a recent graduate of a Woodland Skills training programme run by the charity Avon Needs Trees. With a passion for environmental justice, she has campaigned on sustainability issues, including a shift towards plant-based university catering, and is enthusiastic about building community, especially where this inspires nature connection with its associated health and wellbeing benefits.
Susannah O’Riordan: Nature Recovery Ranger, Hertfordshire
Susannah has worked in the conservation sector for over 20 years in a variety of roles with Butterfly Conservation and The Wildlife Trusts. She has led a wide range of projects focused on habitat creation and restoration, wildlife surveys, environmental education and community engagement. Passionate about connecting people with nature, Susannah loves inspiring others to discover the wildlife right on their doorstep. She’s especially enthusiastic about butterflies and moths—never missing a chance to set out the moth traps and share the magic of these often-overlooked creatures. Believing deeply in the positive impact of nature on both physical and mental wellbeing, Susannah enjoys exploring inclusive and creative ways to engage people with the natural world—whether through exercise, hands-on conservation, wildlife surveys, or art-based workshops.
Duika Burges Watson: Nature Recovery Ranger, Newcastle
Dr Duika Burges Watson is a researcher who has published extensively on altered eating and sensory issues, particularly working with patients experiencing sensory loss through cancer treatment, COVID-19, and other conditions. Her nature recovery work will focus on nature-based sensory opportunities that support both clinical health outcomes and biodiversity goals with measurable co-benefits for personal and planetary health.
Duika has developed the concept of “rewilding the senses”—reconnecting with our full sensory capacity to perceive and connect with the biodiversity around us. Research demonstrates that when people engage their senses in natural settings, they experience measurable improvements in stress reduction, immune function, and emotional wellbeing. Sensory rewilding is grounded in more active development of sensory awareness and capacity.
Her experience supporting people with sensory loss and altered eating, including collaborations with leading UK charities working on smell training—an evidence-based treatment widely used in clinical practice for olfactory dysfunction—positions her well to work with healthcare populations where sensory challenges and mental health concerns are common. She has recently completed a book manuscript exploring how sensory rewilding can transform our relationship with food, health and nature.
For over a decade, Duika founded and led the Station Masters Community Wildlife Garden in North Tyneside, creating a thriving community space that has become a valued local asset. Her approach focuses on creating inclusive spaces where everyone becomes an expert of their own sensory experience while staying curious about how others perceive the world differently. Through food growing projects, sensory workshops, and hands-on biodiversity activities, she specialises in helping spaces become places where both people and nature can flourish together.
Una Devlin: Green Space for Health Communications, Marketing and Engagement Lead
Una brings a diverse skill set to her role as Communications, Marketing, and Engagement Lead with a varied background in communications, community engagement and creative learning. She has worked for organisations including the BBC, the NHS and a wide variety of social inclusion projects in the charitable sector. Her expertise lies in strategic content development and creation, video production, copywriting, journalism and creating engaging learning materials as well as designing and facilitating workshops.