Del Redvers

Sustainability Director, BMT

Del is BMT’s Global Sustainability Director with nearly three decades of professional experience across different aspects of sustainability from cities to oceans, from shipping to energy and from global mega-corporations to small NGOs. He’s a TEDx speaker and passionate about the need for purpose driven businesses and working across sectors to deliver change.

Del also chairs the board of Changeworks, one of the UK’s leading social enterprises and independent environmental charities that applies innovation to programme delivery at scale to achieve net zero.

Sue Harland

Course Leader, Maritime Operations, Warsash Maritime School, Southampton Solent University

Sue joined the maritime industry nearly 40 years ago and has experience as chief officer on a variety of vessel types including tankers, dredgers and ferries. After coming ashore, Sue was the first female editor of Sailing Directions at the UK Hydrographic Office and was responsible for the production of a wide range of nautical publications. Sue has been a lecturer at Warsash Maritime School for the past 11 years.

Dr Neil Williams

Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Southampton

I am an interdisciplinary philosopher specializing in environmental philosophy, moral and political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. The different strands of my research are unified by an interest in the ways that the affective dimensions of our experience shape our beliefs and practices. ​

My current projects - funded by the AHRC and British Academy - are interdisciplinary investigations into the rights of nature. They focus on how this movement might both empower local communities and challenge our exploitative relationships with the natural world. 

Inspired by American pragmatism, I am committed to the idea that concepts find their meaning in practical application, and that research is best conducted within a diverse community of inquirers. For this reason, I act as an editor for the journal Public Humanities, and participate in public engagement whenever possible. 

I work as an Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. There you can find me teaching​ on topics including: environmental philosophy, ethics, and the history of philosophy.

When I'm not doing philosophy, I spend my time running, reading, playing games, and (recently) painting. Philosophical thought keeps threatening to intrude when I am doing these things, but I have so far resisted writing about them.