About Us
The Partnership
Pat Thornton
Formerly working in the business sector, Pat has a Bachelor of Education degree, with merit in teaching. She has been teaching children for 11 years.
She has worked on a number of initiatives to enhance school work including:
- co-authoring ‘Schools Out’, a resource devised by the Highland Environmental Network to encourage teachers to undertake Environmental Studies in the field
- co-authoring the Health Education Programme for Highland Council
- being awarded 3 National Awards from the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) for environmental project work undertaken with her pupils
People and Trees; People and Water; People and Energy
- presenting In-service training to teachers for WWF – Environmental Issues/Sustainable Development
Pat continues to teach part-time and also writes freelance as the Educational Resource Partnership with Liz Balharry.
Liz Balharry
Liz has an honours zoology degree (2.1), a research MSc. in pine marten ecology and a BSc. in Secondary Education. She has a broad experience of the natural world from working abroad with bats and soft corals and in Scotland with pine martens, otters and salmon. Liz worked for Aberdeen University and then the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology before moving to the Highlands and becoming self-employed.
Liz has been self-employed for 10 years, undertaking:
- practical conservation research
- vegetation surveys
- educational projects
- reports and reviews.