Experience
Gardens for Learning is run by Dawn Sanders
an experienced botanical educator and researcher based in London, UK. She has held education positions at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Chelsea Physic Garden and The Natural History Museum, London, and research positions at the National Foundation for Educational Research and King's College London.
Consultancies have included; Chelsea Group of Children (London), Glenveagh Castle Gardens, Ireland, and Mapledene Early Years Centre, London. Dawn has facilitated workshops, often as part of a team, in countries throughout the world including India, China, USA and Australia. She has also featured on the BBC 'Pod' science series and written educational resource pages for The Guardian newspaper and textbooks for Scholastic.
Current Projects
Current projects include working with Friends of Telegraph Hill Park, Edmund Waller Primary School (London), The Charles Darwin Trust (UK), The Chelsea Group of Children (London), and The Natural History Museum (London).
Grants and Awards
Dawn has received several research and travel grants from the Royal Society, The Royal Horticultural Society and The Merlin Trust. She was awarded a Royal Society Millennium award for leading a team working on the botanical knowledge and memories of older Moroccan women, in London and Morocco.
