Public Lecture
Our speaker will be Dr Elizabeth White.
Elizabeth White is a Producer/Director at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol. She began her career as a zoologist, graduating with a degree and PhD in animal behaviour from the University of Bristol in 2003. While writing her thesis she worked part-time on the series Blue Planet and joined the BBC in 2004.
A keen photographer and SCUBA diver, she has filmed all over the world and produced a number of films for television. In 2010 she won the Best Short Film award for her film, The Coral Gardener, at the Wildscreen Wildlife Film Festival.
From 2007-2011 she worked as a Director on the hit TV series, Frozen Planet, which took her to the furthest corners of the globe to document the wildlife, people and landscape of the polar regions.
Elizabeth worked on many of the ice whale and marine shoots as well as documenting the lives of polar people, such as the Canadian Inuit. One of her favourite moments was visiting a real igloo. In filming the series, she travelled twice to the Antarctic Peninsula by yacht and spent 5 months working across the Arctic, from Barrow in the Northern tip of Alaska, to the White sea in Russia. A lot of this time was spent working on the frozen sea ice - and sometimes diving beneath it.