Glen Cousquer

Glen Cousquer is an interdisciplinary scholar who works across a wide range of disciplines. He lectures in One Health and Conservation Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a writer, photographer, International Mountain Leader, mindfulness teacher and Veterinary Surgeon who actively uses narrative and photography to help individuals, communities and organisations understand, explore and reimagine 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 empathy. 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. Glen has led treks and tours in the highlands and islands of Scotland, the French Alps and Pyrenees and the High Atlas of Morocco.