- 26th April 2019
- Posted by: Joanne Woodhouse
- Category: News

We’re proud to be one of the sponsors of the 2019 River Restoration Centre (RRC) Annual Network Conference and River Prize. With this year’s theme of ‘River Restoration in Practice’, it is looking like it will be one of the most successful yet, with over 360 delegates and 24 sponsors booked to attend.
We believe in the benefits that a whole systems approach can bring to providing sustainable solutions for catchment and river management challenges, both now and in the future.
As an industry leader with a multi-disciplinary team of specialists, we are giving four presentations over the two-day event:
Day | Time | Session | Title | Speaker |
Tuesday | 2:30 pm | Session 2 | Investigating channel sensitivity to morphological changes and impact on future flooding | Natasha Todd-Burley and Rebecca Ing |
Tuesday | 3:40 pm | Session 3 | River Irwell: small streams, big WFD gains | Kim Jennings |
Wednesday | 9:00 am | Workshop A | Land use change in response to climate change: outcomes for catchments from research for the Adaptation Sub Committee | Rachelle Ngai |
Wednesday | 9:00 am | Workshop C | Assessing natural flood management opportunities and associated potential benefits in headwater catchment areas | Steve Rose and Ryan Jennings |
Click here to read the abstracts for each of the presentations mentioned above.

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We are also giving live demonstrations on our stand throughout the conference using our interactive tabletop in partnership with Lancaster University Environment Centre. Join us during the breaks at the following times to ask our experts your questions and to learn more about the varied opportunities that we can help you with within catchment and river restoration.
Day | Time | Topic area | Demonstrator |
Tuesday | 11.15 am | Fisheries | Ryan Jennings |
Tuesday | 1.00 pm | Natural capital | Rachelle Ngai |
Tuesday | 3.15 pm | River restoration | Carys Hutton |
Wednesday | 1.00 pm | Natural Flood Management – Oughtershaw (Upper Wharfedale) | Steve Rose and Ryan Jennings |
Want to know more?
We hope to see you at the conference but if you can’t make it, we’d love to hear from you outside of the event.
Email Steve Maslen, Head of Environment, for more information on our attendance at the RRC conference or about any of the projects mentioned above. You can also find out more on our environmental services web pages – especially our Catchment and River Restoration page.