Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium 2027
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Bringing together NGOs, landowners, green finance & government agencies to build a community in landscape-scale transformation.
About this Event
Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027
Designing Landscape Projects for Impact: Developing, monitoring and defining outcomes at scale
Join us at King's House Manchester, 3-4 February 2027, for the annual RLAS Symposium which will bring together leading organisations and stakeholders interested in large-scale land, freshwater, coastal and marine transformation.
The 2-day Symposium aims to help build a more cohesive community in landscape transformation, share knowledge and best practice, and to connect and provide mutual support to landscape-scale projects across the UK.
Your ticket gives you access to the full programme on both days, which features thematic sessions with keynote speakers, session talks and short talks, plus a poster session, exhibition space and other interactive formats. Themed sessions include:
- Landscape and Sea projects: Challenges and Success stories
- Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impact
- How to monitor & measure
- How to evaluate and use data
- Telling stories with impact
- Inspiring Stories from Landscapes and Seas
Full details of the Symposium can be found here.
Day 1: Tue 10 Feb 2026
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Arrival, registration & refreshments
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Introduction to the Symposium
Host: Prof. Bridget Emmett OBE, British Ecological Society
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:50 AM
Opening Address
🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
Session 1: Landscape and Sea projects: Challenges and Success stories
🕑: 11:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Session 2: Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impacts
🕑: 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Structured Networking
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Session 2: Continued
🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Session 3: How to monitor & measure, with Poster & Exhibitor elevator pitches
🕑: 03:15 PM - 05:00 PM
Exhibition & Poster session (with refreshments)
🕑: 05:00 PM
Close
Day 2: Wed 11 Feb 2026
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Session 4: How to evaluate and use data
🕑: 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Break
🕑: 11:10 AM - 12:20 PM
Session 5: Telling stories with impact
Host: Rob & Harriet Fraser, somewhere nowhere arts practice
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:20 PM - 02:30 PM
Session 6: Inspiring Impact Stories from Landscape and Seas
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Symposium Summary & Feedback
Host: Prof. Bridget Emmett OBE, British Ecological Society
🕑: 03:00 PM
Close
About this Event
Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027
Designing Landscape Projects for Impact: Developing, monitoring and defining outcomes at scale
Join us at King's House Manchester, 3-4 February 2027, for the annual RLAS Symposium which will bring together leading organisations and stakeholders interested in large-scale land, freshwater, coastal and marine transformation.
The 2-day Symposium aims to help build a more cohesive community in landscape transformation, share knowledge and best practice, and to connect and provide mutual support to landscape-scale projects across the UK.
Your ticket gives you access to the full programme on both days, which features thematic sessions with keynote speakers, session talks and short talks, plus a poster session, exhibition space and other interactive formats. Themed sessions include:
- Landscape and Sea projects: Challenges and Success stories
- Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impact
- How to monitor & measure
- How to evaluate and use data
- Telling stories with impact
- Inspiring Stories from Landscapes and Seas
Full details of the Symposium can be found here.
Day 1: Tue 10 Feb 2026
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Arrival, registration & refreshments
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Introduction to the Symposium
Host: Prof. Bridget Emmett OBE, British Ecological Society
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:50 AM
Opening Address
🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
Session 1: Landscape and Sea projects: Challenges and Success stories
Info:
🕑: 11:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Session 2: Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impacts
🕑: 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Structured Networking
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Session 2: Continued
🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Session 3: How to monitor & measure, with Poster & Exhibitor elevator pitches
🕑: 03:15 PM - 05:00 PM
Exhibition & Poster session (with refreshments)
🕑: 05:00 PM
Close
Day 2: Wed 11 Feb 2026
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Session 4: How to evaluate and use data
🕑: 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Break
🕑: 11:10 AM - 12:20 PM
Session 5: Telling stories with impact
Host: Rob & Harriet Fraser, somewhere nowhere arts practice
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:20 PM - 02:30 PM
Session 6: Inspiring Impact Stories from Landscape and Seas
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Symposium Summary & Feedback
Host: Prof. Bridget Emmett OBE, British Ecological Society
🕑: 03:00 PM
Close
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King's House Conference Centre, Sidney Street, Manchester, United Kingdom
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