Reuben Nebbett-Blades

Research Assistant

Reuben is a contractor on our Programme team and a recent graduate, interested in biodiversity, rural adaptation and nature-based solutions.

Reuben holds an MBiol in Biology from the University of Oxford, based at their botanic garden where he researched the evolutionary ecology of parasitic plants and volunteered to help propagate threatened species. Through this project, archival research on agricultural data and botanical specimens at Kew Gardens has given him a lasting enthusiasm for the power of well-digitised information systems.

He has additional experience developing environmental policy for his university’s estates department, conducting ecological fieldwork, leading a student entomology society and writing species descriptions for plant taxonomy literature. At the weekend he can be found gardening, birdwatching, and playing jazz guitar.