Dr Glen Cousquer (BSc(Hons), BVM&S, CertZooMed, MSc (Outdoor Education), MSc (Education Research), PhD, MRCVS, IML, PFHEA)
Lecturer and MSc Programme Co-ordinator in Conservation Medicine and One Health
Contact details
Address
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian
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- EH25 9RG
Availability
Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Background
Glen Cousquer is an interdisciplinary Lecturer in One Health and Conservation Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and specialist in awareness based systems change. He specialises in working reflexively across disciplines in developing co-creative approaches to the complex health challenges we face. He is also a writer, photographer, International Mountain Leader, mindfulness teacher and Veterinary Surgeon who actively crafts narrative and photography to help individuals, communities and organisations understand, explore and re-imagine their relationship(s) and relational practices with the more-than-human world. His work is about opening to genuine meeting and dialogue, communing and connecting, systems thinking, holism and compassion. Glen's interests cover a number of subject areas including deep ecology, environmental education, awareness-based systems change, human-animal relations, ecological approaches to veterinary medicine, One Health approaches to animal welfare and wild animal medicine, wildlife, birds, mountains, mountaineering and mountain tourism. His most recent book Wild Places Wild Encounters explores Edinburgh’s living landscape on foot seeking to nurture a reconnection with the wild in the heart of Scotland’s capital
Areas of Expertise
Action Research, Awareness Based Systems Change, One Health, Conservation Medicine, Animal Welfare, Animal Ethics, Wildlife Medicine, Animals in Society, Human Behaviour Change, Mountain Tourism, Professionalism
Qualifications
Education/Academic qualification
Master in Science (Outdoor Education); Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.
Master in Science (Education Research) with distinction; Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
Diploma Occupational Health and Safety
Professional Qualifications
2025 Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2013 International Mountain Leader, IML
1997 Veterinary Surgeon, MRCVS
Responsibilities & affiliations
Chair of the Easter Bush Mental Health and Wellbeing Committee: 2020 - present.
Member of the Easter Bush Campus Improving Culture Group (CICG): 2021 - present.
Member of the Easter Bush Sustainability Committee: 2019 - present.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes