{"id":16,"date":"2022-01-24T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2022-01-24T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T18:36:52","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Vicki Stevenson and I&#8217;m a Senior Lecturer at Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff University.\u00a0 I specialise on sustainability in the built environment.\u00a0 I love my work because it relates to every day life and it helps me (and others) reduce our environmental impact!<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of plants are my inspiration for this blog &#8211; they clean the air, feed us, improve our mood, support other species \u2026\u00a0 the list goes on.\u00a0 Over the last 10 years, I\u2019ve had great fun growing plants for food, biodiversity and beauty!\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried different growing strategies and even dabbled in hydroponics.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be sharing my own experiences (and information I\u2019ve found useful) on how we can incorporate plants in our own spaces and use them to reduce our environmental impact.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll also include other sustainability gems of information that I think might be of interest.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about me on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/people\/view\/1116829-stevenson-vicki\">Cardiff University webpage<\/a> and on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vicki-stevenson-a3bb967\/?originalSubdomain=uk\">LinkedIn webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2022\/01\/Vicki-with-Dylan-the-CU-mascot-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vicki with Dylan the Cardiff University mascot\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2022\/01\/Vicki-with-Dylan-the-CU-mascot-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2022\/01\/Vicki-with-Dylan-the-CU-mascot-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2022\/01\/Vicki-with-Dylan-the-CU-mascot-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2022\/01\/Vicki-with-Dylan-the-CU-mascot-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2022\/01\/Vicki-with-Dylan-the-CU-mascot-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki with Dylan the Cardiff University mascot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Vicki Stevenson and I'm a Senior Lecturer at Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff University.\u00a0 I specialise on sustainability in the built environment.\u00a0 I love my work because it [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6888,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/green-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}