Tom Popplewell

BSc (Hons) MICFor

Career: I graduated from the University of Central Lancashire (Myerscough College) with a first class bachelors with honours in Arboriculture with top student and best dissertation awards in the year.  I worked as a tree surgeon during my studies and then moved into consultancy and joined TEP’s arboriculture team in 2010.  During my time at TEP, I have also become a chartered arboriculturist.

Projects I am proud of: St Fagans National History Museum and Richborough Connection (National Grid’s proposed 400kV line in Kent)

Favourite things:  Grammar, pancakes, Yorkshire

Reading list:  Feral by George Monbiot; Forest Gardening by Robert A de J Hart; The Lord of The Rings by J R R Tolkien

Not many people know:  I can ride a unicycle