Peter Coles Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Morus Londinium is a project under the aegis of the Conservation Foundation, initially supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to document and preserve London's mulberry tree heritage. The project won a European Heritage / Europa Nostra Heritage Award in 2021 for its innovative approach to education and awareness-raising, bringing the built and natural heritage into the same forum of debate. https://www.europeanheritageawards.eu/winners/morus-londinium-londons-heritage-trees/Having… Show more Morus Londinium is a project under the aegis of the Conservation Foundation, initially supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to document and preserve London's mulberry tree heritage. The project won a European Heritage / Europa Nostra Heritage Award in 2021 for its innovative approach to education and awareness-raising, bringing the built and natural heritage into the same forum of debate. https://www.europeanheritageawards.eu/winners/morus-londinium-londons-heritage-trees/Having helped to draft the original project bid I am now entirely responsible for the project, including researching and writing editorial content for the website, leading walks, giving talks, acting as 'points-man' for enquiries, etc.. Through citizen science, the project is uncovering less well-known aspects of London's social, geographical and cultural history, often buried under successive developments, where the mulberry trees are the only survivors, with their roots in the past. See: www.moruslondinium.org Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

Researching and writing about the history or London's mulberry tree heritage, illustrated with photography. Providing scientific, archival and other background information

Writing and editing website content, features, blogs, and fact sheets on a range of European Commission funded science and technology and cultural platforms and projects.

Centre For Urban & Community Research (Cucr)

Lectures, workshops and guided walks on the Urban Biosphere (London) for MA students in Photography and Urban Cultures. Lectures on urban photography to MA students, teaching...2022 (May) Symposium for Goldsmiths PUC MA students and MA students at the Descartes University of Paris (Sorbonne)2021 Online symposium for Goldsmiths PUC MA students and MA students at the Descartes University of Paris (Sorbonne)2020 Online symposium for Goldsmiths PUC MA students and MA students at… Show more Lectures, workshops and guided walks on the Urban Biosphere (London) for MA students in Photography and Urban Cultures. Lectures on urban photography to MA students, teaching...2022 (May) Symposium for Goldsmiths PUC MA students and MA students at the Descartes University of Paris (Sorbonne)2021 Online symposium for Goldsmiths PUC MA students and MA students at the Descartes University of Paris (Sorbonne)2020 Online symposium for Goldsmiths PUC MA students and MA students at the Descartes University of Paris (Sorbonne)2019 Seminar and workshop for Goldsmiths PUC MA students and MA students at the Descartes University of Paris (Sorbonne)2018 (May) Co-organizer, Cities of Light symposium and workshops at Descartes University of Paris 2015-17 Paris seminar on photography and urban studies (May)2014 Tutor on Goldsmiths International Urban Photography Summer School (August) 2014 MA Photography & Urban Cultures dissertation tutorial seminar2013 Guided walk along Deptford Creek for PUC MA students.2013 Guided walks for International Association of Visual Urbanists on urban nature2013 Tutor on International Urban Photography Summer School2012 Tutor on Goldsmiths International Urban Photography Summer School2012 Lectures, workshops and tutorials on Photography and Urban Cultures MA2012 Guest Editor Visual Studies: special Olympics issue. July 20122011 (November) Guided urban nature walk along Deptford Creek, London for PUC students at Goldsmiths2011 (July): Conference paper / photographic presentation on ancient urban trees at Literary London 2011 (July): Tutor on Goldsmiths Urban Photography Summer School2011 (June): Guided walks in Paris2011 (February): Guided walk around the 2012 Olympic site, as part of Learning from Barcelona seminar at London University, Birkbeck East LondonOngoing photographic project on veteran urban trees as archaeological remnants. Show less

Since 2006: Regular translations (French to English) of features and editorial content for the UNESCO Courier magazine.2013: 4500 word article on the discovery of the DNA molecule and its implications:http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002236/223628E.pdf#page=42012-13: Numerous complex translations for the English Translation Unit, UNESCO2011: (October): English editor/translator UNESCO Courier issue on Humanism(February): English editor/translator UNESCO… Show more Since 2006: Regular translations (French to English) of features and editorial content for the UNESCO Courier magazine.2013: 4500 word article on the discovery of the DNA molecule and its implications:http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002236/223628E.pdf#page=42012-13: Numerous complex translations for the English Translation Unit, UNESCO2011: (October): English editor/translator UNESCO Courier issue on Humanism(February): English editor/translator UNESCO Courier issue on Women(January): English editor and translator, UNESCO Courier issue on Chemistry2010- Winter 2010: translation from French of brochure on UNESCO and Haiti- Autumn 2010: Writing press releases on the new World Science Report- Spring 2010: Illustrated press kit for the 50th anniversary of the Intergovernmental oceanographic Commission.- Summer 2010: consultant editor Bureau of Pubic Information2000-2005 Staff editor, writing, commissioning and editing features on science and technology, indigenous knowledge, small islands, urban biospheres, man and the biosphere for the UNESCO Courier and Sources magazines. Writing press releases. Proof and style editing books on the Oceans, on Water and Indigenous knowledge. Show less

Freelance

Research and write a 4500-word feature on the discovery of DNA and its implications for 'A World of Science'. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002236/223628E.pdf#page=4

2022 The Lesnes Abbey mulberry (https://www.moruslondinium.org/research/lesnesmulberry)2021 London's mulberries and their lost gardens. The Plant Review December 2021.2019 Mulberry (a global cultural history of the mulberry tree) Reaktion Books, November 20192014-19: Translation of Fondation Carrefour annual report (and every year since 2010)2011-present: Features, blogs and news for GOPA.com2011: translation and English editor for UNESCO Courier2011: translation of… Show more 2022 The Lesnes Abbey mulberry (https://www.moruslondinium.org/research/lesnesmulberry)2021 London's mulberries and their lost gardens. The Plant Review December 2021.2019 Mulberry (a global cultural history of the mulberry tree) Reaktion Books, November 20192014-19: Translation of Fondation Carrefour annual report (and every year since 2010)2011-present: Features, blogs and news for GOPA.com2011: translation and English editor for UNESCO Courier2011: translation of brochure on the Aladdin Project's high-level visit to Auschwitz2010: Translation of press kit on International year of Chemistry for UNESCO2010: Articles and fact-sheets on renewable energies for EC SETIS [as consultant writer for GOPA-Cartermill]2010: Translation of annual reports for Fondation Carrefour (France) and of their web site material.Feature writing and photography on:- urban ecology (New York, Cape Town, Chicago, post-Katrina New Orleans, London...). - Traditional Knowledge (the Barefoot College, Rajasthan). - Assignments in Antarctica, Chernobyl, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Mali, Mozambique, Vanuatu, Cote d'Ivoire...). French-English translation for UNESCO, Panos Institute Paris, Fondation Carrefour...). Photography of veteran trees and woodlands in the UK.(see http://petecoles.me, www.moruslondinium.org) Show less

London

+ photographs on urban ecology, ancient trees+ portraiture (actors' portfolios, artists, interviewees in articles for the press, portraits for book jackets, etc)+ exhibitions+ reportage (published work on indigenous people, small islands, water management & rice cultivation in Sri Lanka, the Barefoot College Rajasthan, Antarctica...)

Editing and reviewing books for publication

Writing and compiling articles and reports on this (now complete) maritime research project to develop and test a new generation information system to prevent accidents in coastal waters and improve efficiency of marine transport.

UNESCO Sources and Courier magazines

Malakoff, Île-De-France, France

Conducting field studies, knowledge engineering interviews and observations with maritime pilots in ports in France, Netherlands and Finland. Designing, running and evaluating simulations of shore-based radar support for marine navigation in confined waters. Writing reports to the European Commission on different pre-competitive Europe-wide research projects on shore-based radar navigation aids and vessel traffic management. Analysis of information flows in the port of Bangkok… Show more Conducting field studies, knowledge engineering interviews and observations with maritime pilots in ports in France, Netherlands and Finland. Designing, running and evaluating simulations of shore-based radar support for marine navigation in confined waters. Writing reports to the European Commission on different pre-competitive Europe-wide research projects on shore-based radar navigation aids and vessel traffic management. Analysis of information flows in the port of Bangkok (Thailand).Preliminary ergonomic designs for a prototype PC-based digital port radar console. Show less

writing weekly column on science and technology news in France; writing features on science and technology in regions of Europe and French Antarctica.

D.Phil, Psychology

Research into eye movements and visual perception in infants, children and adults.

M.A., Psychology

Research into art and visual perception (left and right in Western painting)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, First Class

Activities and Societies: Photographer for Student Union magazine (events, rock concerts, portraits). Photographs for Drama Department..