Explanation of work already completed and services provided by Symbiotic and Sustainable Systems

Pfizer - Sustainable Health and Well-being

Families sustaining healthy outdoor lifestyles                Outdoor activities sustainable lifestyles

 

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council - Personal Growth

Relaxation and sustainable personal growth     Connecting to the outdoors and our cultural identity

 

Non-formal and Informal Outdoor Learning - Sustainable Living

Living outdoors helps to connect people to the natural environment   Sustainable living, food consumption and sustaining community values

Research Projects

Familial Hypercholesterolaemia and Outdoor Lifestyles Research Project, Pfizer UK Research Grant (2007-9)

Common Investment Fund - Lifelong Learning through the Outdoors.  Developing Non-Formal, Informal and Formal Outdoor Learning Frameworks in the Borough of Merthyr Tydfil (2005-6)

University of Glamorgan Learning and Teaching Office Grant - Community Environmental Regeneration a Site for Informal Outdoor Learning (2005-6)

Involvement in following Research Projects

Griffith University, Solitary Islands Marine Reserve, Australia, Participation Research

Griffith University, Financial Trends Analysis of Queensland, Australia Sporting Organisations

Griffith University, Leisure as a indicator of Quality of Life, Queensland, Australia

Griffith University, Leisure Attitudes and Satisfaction research, Queensland, Australia

Griffith University, Leisure constraints and attitudes within Ethnic Populations, Queensland, Australia 

Research Reports:

Polistina, K. (2009). Outdoor Lifestyle Experience: Outdoor Therapy Intervention for families affected by Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (Research Report). Trefforest: University of Glamorgan - Outdoor Learning & Pfizer UK Foundation Research Report

 

Polistina, K. (2006). Community Environmental Regeneration a Site for Informal Outdoor Learning Final Research Project Report (Learning and Teaching Office Grant 2005-6). Pontypridd, Wales: University of Glamorgan, Learning and Teaching Office.

 

Polistina, K., & Silvester, P. (2006). Lifelong Learning through the Outdoors:  Developing Non-Formal, Informal and Formal Outdoor Learning Frameworks in the Borough of Merthyr Tydfil (Common Investment Fund No. Common Investment Fund Report). Pontypridd: University of Glamorgan and the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council.

 

Consultations/Workshops

 

 

Consultation - Member, Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council - Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship, 2006-Ongoing

 

Consultation - Member, Welsh Assembly Government - Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship consultation group 2008-2010.

 

Consultation - Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council - Earth Science Education Network Sub-group, 2007-Ongoing.

 

Consultation - Sustrans, Symud Ymlaen Project aiming to facilitate a structured and strategic approach in the set up of future active travel work.  2008-Ongoing.

 

Consultation - WJEC, Development of Outdoor Learning, Sustainability and Global Citizenship - GCSE Level, 2008-2010.

 

Workshop Consultation - IRIS Research Seminar Series Semester 1- Health, well-being and sustainability education in the South Wales Valley and the cultural aspects of sustainability / Grundtvig Workshop - Sustainability, Well-being and European Lifelong Learning, Workshop Reference No.: 2009-1-GB2-GRU13-01766, 25-31/10/2009, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK

 

Consultation - Taff Bargoed Regeneration Plan, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Ongoing.

 

Consultation - Heads of the Valleys - Green Valleys Initiative - Education Group, 2008-Ongoing.

 

Consultation - Chair, Lifelong Learning Campus, Outdoor Learning Sub-Group, 2005-2009.

 

Consultation - Feasibility Study Steering Group - Lifelong Learning Through the Outdoors, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, 2005.

 

Consultation - Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council - Merthyr Learns Strategy.

 

Consultation - Common Investment Fund - Lifelong Learning through the Outdoors, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, 2005-6.

 

Consultation - Steering Committee, ESF Neighbourhood Learning Project – Phase II - Outdoor learning provision and pathway development guidance, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, 2006-8.

 

Consultation - Steering committee, Aberdare Woodland and Regeneration Project, Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council.

  

Conference Organisation

 

Conference Director, National Association of Field Studies Officers Conference 2nd - 6th January 2008.