Jim Pettiward

About Jim Pettiward

Head of Communications (Senior Leadership Team)

Although a Londoner at heart, Jim’s first degree was in Modern Languages, and it enabled him to indulge his wanderlust. He spent time living and working in some of Earth’s most biologically diverse regions, including Ecuador and Venezuela, and developed a passion for the underwater realm through his favourite hobby, scuba diving.

Whilst building a career in education, training, and online learning at various universities and educational institutions, Jim began to explore opportunities to volunteer in marine conservation, spending time in Ecuador and south-west Madagascar.

As a long-term friend and supporter, Jim initially joined Synchronicity Earth’s team in 2016 to draw out compelling stories from the brilliant work of its programmes and partners around the world. His role was to weave these stories together into a coherent and strategic narrative, developing communications materials and building the organisation’s online presence.

As Synchronicity Earth grew, Jim took a more active role in developing the strategic direction and framing of the organisation. In 2018, he was promoted to Head of Communications. He currently manages a small communications team and has been a member of the Senior Leadership Team since its creation in 2020.

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Jim Pettiward

Jim Pettiward

Head of Communications (Senior Leadership Team)
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Jim’s background is in education and training, a field in which he has held a number of roles including designing and writing resources for the web, developing teacher training resources and workshops, teaching effective research and writing skills and providing online learning support for students and staff in UK Higher Education institutions. Jim’s role at Synchronicity Earth is to enhance our communications strategy and to design and write new content and resources to inform and inspire supporters, partners, friends and anyone with an interest in conservation and the environment. By telling the stories of Synchronicity Earth and its partners, we aim to bring their work on critical conservation projects around the world to life. Jim works closely with our research analysts and other staff, as well as with external partners, to develop narratives and campaigns around key conservation issues and priorities. Jim graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Modern Languages (French & Spanish) and has an MSc in Digital Solutions and Online Learning. He has volunteered on marine conservation projects in Ecuador, Thailand and Madagascar, recently spending 3 months on a coral reef conservation project in southwest Madagascar. Over his 15 years as a scuba diver, he has developed a particular interest in the health and conservation of the oceans and is lucky enough to have dived some of the most beautiful dive sites in the world.
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A career in conservation: an interview with Julie Thomas

Our Head of Conservation Programmes, Julie Thomas, joined the Synchronicity Earth team in January, 2023. In this interview, Jessie Birabil and Jim Pettiward talk to Julie about how she started out in her conservation career and hear how her experiences working in diverse regions and communities around the world have shaped her attitudes towards [...]

By , |2023-08-17T11:26:28+00:00July 28th, 2023|Interviews, Nature, Our Team, People and Wildlife, Programmes, Uncategorized|Comments Off on A career in conservation: an interview with Julie Thomas

Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Over the past 18 years, Dr Grace Iara Souza has developed a deep understanding of the impacts of global environmental governance and social policies on local rainforest defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. Her academic training is rooted in Political Ecology, and her professional experience includes project management in the educational, private, and charity sectors, [...]

By , |2023-03-13T11:27:50+00:00March 7th, 2023|Approach, Biocultural Diversity, Brazil, Capacity, Interviews, Support|Comments Off on Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

The world's largest and most important global gathering on biodiversity convened in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022. As the speeches, pledges and media coverage of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) fade into memory, we hear from four people who were there. Large, [...]

By |2023-02-20T10:16:36+00:00February 20th, 2023|Advocacy, Biodiversity, Capacity, Congo Basin, Events, Freshwater, Inclusion|Comments Off on Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous leader of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorean Amazon province of Pastaza, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Nemonte gained global attention when she led a successful court action to block a proposal for oil exploration and drilling on 500,000 acres of Waorani land. Her tireless and courageous [...]

By , |2022-10-31T14:14:09+00:00June 23rd, 2022|Biocultural Diversity, Biodiversity, Community, Flourishing Diversity, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews|Comments Off on An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo
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