School of Social and Political Science

Background

David S. Ingram, OBE, VMH, BSc, PhD (Hull)), MA, ScD (Cambridge), Hon D.Univ. (Open), FCI Hort., FRSB, FRSE  is a plant and horticultural scientist, with wide scholarly interests in social sciences and the arts and humanities, currently: Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh, Social & Political Science/ Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (formerly Honorary Professor, Biological Sciences); Honorary Professor, Lancaster University, Environment Centre; Honorary Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Formerly Regius Keeper), St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (formerly Master), Downing College, Cambridge, Worcester College, Oxford, Myerscough (land-based industries) College, Preston, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Ruskin Foundation, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (lay Fellow); Honorary Member, British Society for Plant Pathology, Companion, Guild of St George (an educational charity founded by John Ruskin).

He studied Botany with ancillary Geology and Psychology (BSc, 1st class Hons.) and Plant Pathology (PhD) at the University of Hull (1960-66). He then taught Botany and Plant Pathology and carried out research on the Physiology, Genetics and Molecular Genetics of Plant-Pathogen Interaction and Plant Biotechnology in the Breeding of Crops with Novel Resistance to Diseases, in the Universities of Glasgow (1966-68) and Cambridge (1968-90: ARC Senior Scientific Officer, next University Lecturer and then University Reader). In Cambridge he was also a Fellow of Downing College and acted, variously, as Director of Studies in Biology, Dean and Tutor for Graduate Students.

He was awarded, by the University of Cambridge, the Degrees of Master of Arts (MA), 1974 and Doctor of Science (ScD), 1986.

He became Regius Keeper (Director and Chief Executive) of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh in 1990 and concurrently, Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh (Molecular Plant Sciences) and Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow (Plant Sciences), and from 1995 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Professor of Horticulture.

During a writing-sabbatical (1998-2000) he was Honorary Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh,  Visiting, later Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow, RHS Professor of Horticulture and Visiting Professor, Napier University. 

He was Master of St Catharines’s College, Cambridge from 2000-2006, Chair of the Colleges’ Committee and the representative of the Colleges on the University Council of Senate.

Other recent roles have included: Chair of the Darwin Initiative for Survival of Species; Founder Chair of Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS), UK and SAPS Scotland; Chair of the University of Edinburgh Committee on Public Understanding of (subsequently Engagement with) Science, Engineering and Technology (PUSET); Deputy Chair/Chair of the Audit Committee of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC); Council Member and Programme Convenor, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Board Member, Botanic Gardens Conservation International; Main Board Member and Member of the Science Committee, Scottish Natural Heritage; Advisory Board Member, ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, Edinburgh; President, British Society for Plant Pathology; and President, International Congress of Plant Pathology.

HONOURS have included appointment as an OBE, award of the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society (only 65 living holders); being made a Doctor of Science of Cambridge University (ScD) and an Hon. Doctor of the Open University (DUniv); election as an Honorary Member of the British Society for Plant Pathology (formerly President), appointment as an Honorary or Visiting Professor of various UK Universities, especially Lancaster and Edinburgh Universities and election as an Honorary Fellow of several national Institutions (see above); election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP between 1966 & 2006: David Ingram carried out a large programme of plant science/botany, plant pathology, biotechnology, plant science education, conservation of biodiversity and public engagement with science comprising, variously: lecturing/tutorial teaching to undergraduate students; supervising graduate students; internal and external examining (Bachelors, Masters & Doctoral levels); leading a large research group; scientific publication (eight books and a very large number of research papers); conference and public lecturing, chairing and organising; journal editing (various Editorships of Scientific journals); science and people management; academic and public administration and management; and local, national and international committee work.

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP since 2006, in ‘retirement’, includes the following current and recently completed projects:

1.The role and conservation of native plant pathogens in UK natural and semi-natural ecosystems and the contribution of citizen science groups to such studies, especially the Wyre Forest study Group (D. Ingram & E. Rodrigues, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, SPS, University of Edinburgh).

2. A long term evaluation of the social/social policy role of Botanic Gardens and herbaria in the 21st century. This project builds on Ingram’s former experience as Regius Keeper (Director/Chief Executive) of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh during the 1990s, and his subsequent close monitoring of botanic garden activity, worldwide, thereafter. It is being pursued in consultation with various botanic gardens, worldwide, notably the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

2.1 (as an exemplar) A detailed philosophical study of the development and use of the DNA barcoding of plants, a major new 21st century scientific tool-set for botanic garden and herbarium research (with Dr. James Lowe [lead researcher], Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, Edinburgh, and among others, Professors Peter Hollingsworth and David Mann, Director of Science and former Director of Science, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

3. The synergy between plant science/botany/horticulture and the fine/decorative arts in 19th-21st century Europe, especially exhibited or pursued in northern England and southern Scotland.

The research has had a clear but not exclusive focus on the workmen John Ruskin and his disciples and is/has been carried out in collaboration with many external organizations, including, for example: Bowes Museum, Co Durham; British Society for Plant Pathology; Cambridge Science Festival; Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc.; Edinburgh City Arts Centre; Fitzwillam Museum, Cambridge; Guild of St George (an education charity founded by John Ruskin); Lakeland Arts Trust; National Gallery, London; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Royal Horticultural Society; Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Society of Edinburgh; Ruskin Foundation/Brantwood Trust, Brantwood, Coniston, UK; Ruskin Library (now the Ruskin), Lancaster University; Scottish National Portrait Gallery; St Andrews Botanic Garden; University of Cambridge Botanic Garden; and University of Glasgow (Art History).

4. Food security: membership of the International Advisory Board of the international and interdisciplinary Springer journal Food Security. David Ingram participated in the establishment of this new journal [while an Honorary Professor in Edinburgh], and has been associated with it ever since as a member of the International Advisory Board, Editorial Board and Book Reviews Editor.

David Ingram has recently completed his term of office as Editorial Board member and Book Reviews Editor, but continues as a member of the International Advisory Board.

5. Informal mentoring of and interaction with post-graduate students in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (SPS, Edinburgh).

David Ingram brings to these interactions c. 55 years of international and interdisciplinary experience in research, research management, lecturing, tutorial teaching and internal and external examining at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, embracing botany, plant and horticultural science, plant pathology, food security, the conservation of biodiversity, collections management, public engagement with science and horticulture, the synergy between botany/plant science/horticulture and the Fine and Decorative Arts, etc. etc.)

6. Public Engagement with Horticultural Science.

This project has now been taken as far as is feasible at present and is therefore regarded as complete, with no immediate plans for resumption.

Outputs (2006-present)

1. Books

Ingram, D.S. & Wildman, S. (2022 in press). John Ruskin’s Flora of Chamouni, 1844 – a facsimile edition with introduction, commentary and notes. Pallas Athene, London.

Ingram, D. S., Vince-Prue, D. & Gregory, P. (2016) Science and the Garden, 3rd  (revised and rewritten) Edition. Wiley/Blackwell, Oxford & The Royal Horticultural Society, London.

Ingram, D. S. (2014) The Gardens at Brantwood – evolution of John Ruskin’s Lakeland paradise. Pallas Athene, London & The Brantwood Trust, Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria.

Ingram, D. S., Vince-Prue, D. & Gregory, P. (2008) Science and the Garden, 2nd  (revised and rewritten) Edition. Blackwell and the Royal Horticultural Society, Oxford and London.

2. Monographs

Roberts, R. & Ingram, D.S.  (2017) Spinning the Colours of Lakeland: Annie Garnett’s Spinnery, Textiles and Garden, Lakeland Arts, Bowness-on-Windermere/Kendal.

Ingram, D.S. (November 2016) Ruskin’s Botanical Books: Re-ordered and Annotated Editions of Baxter and Sowerby, Guild of St George, York.

Ingram, D.S. (2012) The Flora of Blackwell (an Interpretation tool relating to the internal botanical decoration of ‘Blackwell’: the Arts and Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria). The Lakeland Arts Trust, Bowness-on-Windermere.

3. Editorship since 2006

Ingram, D. S. (2009 – present). Food Security: Member of the International Advisory Board, formerly Member of Advisory and Editorial Boards and Book Reviews Editor.

4. Papers in journals

Ingram, D.S. (2022 in preparation) Invited Guest Article for the winter issue of Studies in Photography.

Lowe, J.W.E. & Ingram, D.S. (2022 in final stages of preparation) DNA barcoding and the changing ontological commitments of taxonomy. In final stages of preparation for Philosophy and Biology.

Ingram, D.S. (2022 accepted and in press) Cylinders’ connections – memories and impressions of two artists and a poet. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

Winnall, R., Taylor, C. & Ingram, D.S. (2022) Plant Pathogens Recorded in Greater Wyre During 2021 and Outline Proposals for Surveying During 2022. Wyre Forest Study Group Review 2021, 8-16.

Ingram, D.S. (2022) A case for the conservation of plant pathogens Plant Pathology, hard copy in a forward look, special issue of the journal, Vol. 71, 98-110.

Ingram, D.S. (2021) A case for the conservation of plant pathogens Plant Pathology, on-line at DOI: 10.1111/ppa.13448. (18.7.2021)

Winnall, R., Taylor, C. & Ingram, D.S. (2021) A Proposed 2021 Plant Pathogen survey Strategy for Greater Wyre. Wyre Forest Study Group Review 2020, pp. 10-11.

Winnall, R. & Ingram, D.S. (2021) Plant Pathogens Recorded in 2020 by Members of the Wyre Forest Study Group. Wyre Forest Study Group Review 2020, pp. 12-15.

Ingram, D.S. & Winnall, R. (2021) Practical Plant Pathology for Beginners. Wyre Forest Study Group Review 2020, pp. 16-23.

Ingram, D.S. (2021) Obituary: Professor John Friend. Guardian, 7 Jan 2021 

Ingram, D.S. & Winnall, R. (2020) Native Plant Pathogens in the Wyre Forest: a proposed survey. Wyre Forest Study Group Review, 2019, pp. 10-17.

Roberts, R. & Ingram, D.S. (2020) Harry Pierce’s Vision and Kurt Schwitters’ Last Merzbau. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society News 93 (Spring 2020), pp.12-13 &18

Ingram, D.S. (2020) A Botanical Analysis of the Internal Decoration at Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere: Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiqurian & Archaeological Soc CW3 20, pp. 227-250.

Ingram, D.S. (2019) Re-invigorating a Lost Landscape [John Ruskin's Brantwood]. The Horticulturist (journal of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture), Spring 2019, pp.14-17.

Ingram, D.S. & Roberts, R. (2018) Miss Garnett’s Rosy Garden: A Palette of Colours . Cumbria Gardens Trust Occasional Papers series, Volume 6, pp. 15-38.

Ingram, D.S., Roberts, R. & Clarke, K. (2017) Early Coloured Photographic Images of Annie Garnett’s Garden at Fairfield, Bowness-on-Windermere (Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 17, 235-256.)

Ingram, D.S. & Roberts, R. (2017) Report: Spinning the Colours of Lakeland: Annie Garnett’s Spinnery, Textiles and Garden. Ruskin Review and Bulletin 13 (1), 60-63.

Ingram, D. S. (2016). John Ruskin’s Botanical Books: New Discoveries and Work in Progress. The Companion, journal of the Guild of St George, 16, pp. 7-11.

Ingram, D.S. (2016). Ruskin’s Botanical Books: A Survey of Re-ordered and Annotated Second Edition Volumes of British Phaenogamous Botany (W. Baxter, 1834-43) and English Botany (J.E. Smith & J. Sowerby, 1832-40). Ruskin Review and Bulletin 12, No 1, pp. 18-50.

Ingram, D.S. (2014). Wild Gardens: the Robinson, Ruskin and Severn correspondence. Ruskin Review and Bulletin 10, 30-44.

Ingram, D.S., Bisgrove, R. J & Willsdon, C.P. (2013). The Call of the Wild – wild flowers in gardens and art: the Broadway connection. Ruskin Review and Bulletin 9, 42 – 51.

Coutts, H & Ingram, D.S. (2012).  Emile Gallé’s verre d’eau at the Bowes Museum – a detailed study of the motifs. Journal of the Decorative Arts Society, 36, 83-97.

Ingram, D.S. (2012). Victoria Crowe: Plant Memory in a Wider Landscape. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh 42, 378-379.

Coutts, H. & Ingram, D. S. (2011). A Sevres Vase ‘de Blois’ in the University of London. The French Porcelain Society Journal 4, 227-242.

Frow, E., Ingram, D. S., Powell, W., Steer, D., Vogel, J. & Yearley, S. (2009). The Politics of Plants. Food Security 1, 17-23.

5. Published Exhibition catalogues 

Ingram, D.S. & Roberts, Rachel (published internally by Lakeland Arts, 2016, re-written and published as a monograph by Lakeland Arts (see Monographs, above), 2017). Spinning the Colours of Lakeland: Annie Garnett’s Spinnery, Textiles and Garden. (Lakeland Arts Trust).

Ingram, D.S. & Roberts, Rachel, (2016). Annie Garnett: Her Gardens and Designs. Museum of Lakeland Life and Industries (Lakeland Arts Trust).

Ingram, D. S. & Wildman, S. (2011). Ruskin’s Flora: The Botanical Drawings of John Ruskin. Published by The Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster. [Note Research material on which the above exhibition is based is available on the website of the Ruskin Library and Research Centre, University of Lancaster.]

House, E. & Ingram, D. S. (2011). Painting Flowers: Fantin-Latour and the Impressionists,Catalogue/Commentary for an exhibition of the paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour, the Bowes Museum, Co Durham. Published by the Bowes Museum, Co Durham.

Coutts, H., assisted by Ingram, D. S. (2008). Emile Galle and the Origins of Art Nouveau. a Catalogue/Commentary for an exhibition of glass, ceramics and furniture by Emile Galle, the Bowes Museum, Co Durham. Published by the Bowes Museum, Co Durham.

Crowe, V. & Ingram, D. S. (2007). Plant Memory. A commentary/catalogue of an exhibition of the plant-inspired paintings of Victoria Crowe at The Royal Scottish Academy, 6th October – 4th November, 2007. Published by the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

6. Exhibitions Co-curated 

Ingram, D.S. & Roberts, Rachel (October2016). Annie Garnett: Her Garden and Fabric Designs. The Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry (Lakeland Arts Trust).

Ingram, D.S. & Wildman, S. (2011) Ruskin’s Flora: The Botanical Drawings of John Ruskin.  The Ruskin Library, Lancaster University.

House, E. & Ingram, D.S. (2011). Painting Flowers: Henri Fantin-Latour and the Impressionists. The Bowes Museum, Co. Durham.

Coutts, H., assisted by Ingram, D.S. (2008). Emile Galle and the Origins of Art Nouveau. The Bowes Museum, Co. Durham.

7. Ephemera (2020 - 2022 only recorded here)

British Society for Plant Pathology, Blogs and Comments, by invitation.

Ingram, D.S. (August) Study and Conservation of Native Plant Pathogens on Wild Plants, based on DSI’s own research, and in relation to a BSPP project entitled: #wildplantdisease and @wildflowerhour challenge.

Ingram, D.S. (October) The Importance of Conserving Plant Pathogens, based on DSI’s own research and in relation to: release of a major Report by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, entitled The State of the World’s Plants and Fungi.

Ingram, D.S. (ongoing) Blogs, email information documents, plant  pathogen identifications, and discussions, with the c. 14 member of the WFSG Plant Disease Survey Group, the most recent being LIFE CYCLES OF THE RUSTS (Pucciniales, syn. Uredinales; Basidiomycota) by Rosemary Winnall, Carol Taylor & David S. Ingram, April 2022.

Lowe, James & Ingram, D.S. (May 2021) Ontological commitments and the working worlds of plant DNA barcoding. Abstract of a paper given in May 2021 at the University of Exeter

Ingram, D.S. (May), Berberis Magic (in relation to Rust Disease life cycles) for the Lockdown Newsletter.

8. Book Reviews

Ingram, D.S. (2022) Review of The Dark Path to Knowledge – The Autobiography of John Gough of Kendal (1757-1825), ‘Blind Philosopher’ and Polymath, Edited by Michael Pearson and Ian D. Hodkinson (Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society) Newsletter of the C&WA&ASoc., 99, p.16.

Ingram, D.S. (2020) Review of Ian D. Hodkinson, Natural Awakenings: Early Naturalists in Lakeland
, C & W A & A Soc. Newsletter, Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society 94, p.16.

Ingram, D.S. (2018).Review of Barbara Gemmill-Herren (ed) Pollination Services to Agriculture: Sustaining and Enhancing Key Ecosystem Services. Food Security, 10, 1669-1672.

Ingram, D.S (2018) Books Briefings (Reviews of four books dealing with, respectively: the brain and food, global poverty, globalization, and resistance to plant diseases in crops). Food Security 10, 235-238.

Ingram, D.S. (2017). Review of Gopalkrishnan Subramanian, Sathya Arumugam & Vijayabharathi Rajendran (eds.): Plant Growth Promoting Actinobacteria. Springer, 2017. Food Security 9, 1131-1132.

Ingram, D.S. (2014). Review of Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp and Marcel Dicke:The Insect Cookbook - Food for a sustainable planet, Columbia University Press, 2014. Food Security, in press.

Ingram, D.S. (2014). Review of Michael H. Tunick: The Science of Cheese, OUP, 2014. Food Security, in press.

Ingram, D.S. (2014). Review of three books by Nelson, C. et al on Climate Change and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa IFPRI (2013). Food Security 6, 147-149.

Ingram, D.S. (2013). Review of Jackson, p. et al (2013) Food words – essays in culinary culture. Bloomsbury Academic. Food Security 5, 899-900.

Ingram, D.S. (2013). Books in Brief (Reviews of: Brooks, J. Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction, OECD (2012); Aweto, A.O. Shifting Cultivation and Secondary succession in the Tropics, CABI (2013); Van Alfen et al, Annual Reviews of Phytopathology, Vol. 50 (2012); Aitken, A. Harvesting the Sun – A Profile of world Horticulture, ISHS (2012); Bloch-Dano, E. Vegetable, University of Chicago Presss (2012). Food Security 5, 479-481.

Ingram, D.S. (2012) Review of Annual Review of Phytopathology Vol 49, ed by N.K. Van Alfen, G. Bruening and J. E. Leach; Food Security, 4, 329-330.

Ingram, D. S. (2011) Review Books and Booklets in Brief  (Reviews of: John Andrews, And One Hand on the Bench, University of Wisconsin; Oliver Oliveros and many collaborators, DURAS Project: Innovative partnerships for sustainable development (Number 11 of Les Dossiersd’Agropolis International) Agropolis International, Montpelier, France; Paul Richards, A Green Revolution From Below?; Wageningen University; Song Yiching and Ronnie Vernoy (eds), Seeds and Synergies – Innovating Rural Development in China Practical Action Publishing, U.K. and The International Development Research Centre, Ottowa, Canada; P. Smith, A. Edwards, M. Cowling & E. Gillespie (eds), Proceedings of the International Symposium, Scottish Aquaculture: a Sustainable Future (a special issue of Aquaculture Research, 42, number S1, 2011, eds. Hardy, R. W., Ross, L. G., Shiau,  S.-Y. & Verdegem, M. Wiley-Blackwell), Food Security, 3, 521-522.

Ingram, D. S. (2011). Review of Plant Pathology in the 21st Century by M. Lodovica et al. Food Security 3, 273 – 275.

Ingram, D. S. (2010). Review of Seeds, Sex and Civilization by Peter Thompson. The Garden, December 2010.

Ingram, D. S. (2010). Review of Hybrid by Noel Kingsbury. The Garden, May 2010, pp. 373.

Ingram, D. S. (2008). Review of Fruit – edible, inedible, incredible by Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler. The Garden, 2008.

Ingram, D. S. (2007). Review of The Triumph of the Fungi by N. P. Money, The Garden, May 2007.

8. Public Lectures and Conferences, etc. 

Lowe, J. & Ingram, D.S. (May 2021) Lecture, Philosophy of Plant Biology Workshop, University of Exeter. Lecture title: Ontological Commitments and the Working Worlds of Plant DNA Barcoding.

Ingram, D.S. (March 2020) Lecture, Wyre Forest Study Group, Bewdley. Lecture title: Plant Disease Diversity and Conservation. Cancelled due to covid pandemic.

Ingram, D.S. (November 2019) Seminar, Science, Technology & Innovation Studies, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Seminar title: Botanic Gardens: "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"

Ingram D.S. & Coutts, H. (October 2019) Invited Lecture, Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Trust, Conference  'In celebration of the rose - its evolving role in garden design, art and floristry', Kilkenny Castle/ Invited Lecture title: The Flower Paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour.

Ingram D.S. (July 2019) Public Lecture: Victoria Crowe: Portraits and Plant Memory in the Wider Landscape, Edinburgh City Art Centre.

Ingram D.S. (June 2019) Discussion Moderator & Chair, One-day Workshop, IASH, University of Edinburgh, entitled Rejuvenating the Theatrum Botanicum: Researching Plants and Re-inventing the Botanic Garden, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 

Ingram, D.S.(March 2019) Chair and Discussion Moderator, Public Study Day entitled Whistler, Nature and Science at The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, part of the Cambridge Science Festival,  

Ingram, D.S. (December 2018) Public Lecture, John Ruskin's Botanical Books, York Bibliographical Society.

Ingram, D.S. (November 2018) Invited participant and discussant, Wyre Forest National Opinion Leaders' Workshop, Wyre Forest, Bewdley, Worcestershire.

Ingram, D.S. (May 2018) Chair, Guild of St George Wyre Forest Diversity Sustainable Management Advisory Group.

Ingram, D.S. (November 2017) Diversity and Sustainability: the Guild’s recently purchased botanical books annotated by Ruskin, and their land holdings at St George’s Field, Sheepscombe (Gloucestershire) and Ruskin Land, the Wyre Forest (Worcestershire). Guild of St. George.

Ingram, D.S. (Summer, 2017) Chair, Guild of St George Wyre Forest Diversity Sustainable Management Advisory Group.

Ingram, D.S. & Roberts, R. (May, 2017) Inspired by Ruskin: Annie Garnett’s Spinnery, Textiles and Garden, University of Lancaster.

Ingram, D.S. & Roberts, R. (May, 2017) Spinning the Colours of Lakeland: Annie Garnett’s Spinnery, Textiles and Garden, Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry (Lakeland Arts).

Ingram, D.S. (December 2016). All Silk and Flame: John Ruskin and Wild Flora. Florilegium Society, Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

Ingram, D.S. (for December 2015). Brantwood – evolution of John Ruskin's Lakeland paradise. Friends of St Andrews Botanic Garden.

Ingram, D.S. (for November 2015). Ruskin’s Annotations to and Re-arrangement of Recently Discovered Sets of Volumes of Two Major 19th Century British Floras – work in progress. Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University.

Ingram, D.S. (September 2015). Rosy Wealth of June: the flower paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour. St Andrews Botanic Garden, Friends’ Study Day.

Ingram, D.S. (April 2015). Rosy Wealth of June: the flower paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour. Garden History Society anniversary meeting, Linnean Society, London.

Ingram, D.S. (April 2015). Interpretative Walking Tour – The Flora of Blackwell (Lakeland Arts Trust), The Art Fund, Cumbria.

Ingram, D.S. (October 2014). John Ruskin and Wild Flora. 10th Anniversary Lecture, Institute for analytical Plant Illustration. Nature in Art Gallery.

Ingram, D.S. (October 2013). Ruskins Flora. Friends' Study Day, Brantwood, Coniston (Ruskin Foundation).

Ingram, D.S. (June 2014), Brantwood - John Ruskin's Lakeland Paradise. The Garden Literary Festival (Garden Museum), Petworth House.

Ingram, D.S. (May 2014) John Ruskin and Wild Flora – the Lancaster drawings and Brantwood gardens. The Yorkshire Philosophical Society & The Yorkshire Garden History Society annual joint lecture.

Ingram, D.S. (May 2014) Interpretative Walking Tour – The Flora of Blackwell (the Cambridge Society).

Ingram, D.S. (12 March 2014) Two Interpretative Walking Tours – The Flora of Blackwell, The Lakeland Arts Trust for Friends and Japanese Tour Guides.

Ingram, D.S. (20 February 2014) All Silk and Flame – John Ruskin and Wild Flora. Lancaster university Ruskin Seminar Series (Ruskin Library and Faculty of English).

Ingram, D.S. (4 November 2014) John Ruskin and Wild Flora. University of Edinburgh Science, Technology and innovation Studies Seminar Series.

Ingram, D.S. (12 September 2013). Interpretative Walking Tour – The Flora of Blackwell, for Curators and Keepers, Lakeland Arts Trust

Ingram, D.S. (June 2013). A Meadow for All Seasons and John Ruskin and Wildness, Ruskin Foundation, Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria.

Ingram, D.S. (1 March 2013) Interpretative Walking Tour – The Flora of Blsackwell for general public, Lakeland Arts Trust.

Ingram, D.S. (21 February 2013). John Ruskin and Wild Flora – the Lancaster Drawings and Brantwood Gardens. Glasgow University History of Art Seminar Series.

Ingram, D.S. (15th November 2012). OECD/ESRC Genomics Network Global Forum on Biotechnology: Chair, Plenary V, Emerging Pathogens in the Environment. 

Ingram, D.S. (3rd October 2012). Interpretative Walking Tour: The Flora of Blackwell. At Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House, Bowness on Windermere, The Lakeland Arts Trust.

Ingram, D.S. (10th June 2012). All Silk and Flame: John Ruskin and Wild Flora, The Broadway Arts Festival, Broadway, Worcestershire.

Ingram, D.S. (12th June 2012) Gardens in Science and Art. St Andrews Botanic Garden, annual Friends’ Lecture.

Ingram, D. S. (13th October and 12th November, 2011.). Interpretative Walking Tours: Ruskin’s Flora. At the Ruskin Library and Research Centre Gallery, University of Lancaster.

Ingram, D. S. (23rd June, 11th August & 15th November, 2011). Walking Tours: The Flora of Blackwell. At Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere, The Lakeland Arts Trust. 23rd June, 11th August and 15th November, 2011.

Ingram, D.S. & Coutts, H. (2011). Art Nouveau: the garden invades the art. The Royal Society of Edinburgh/Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfies and Galloway, 25th June, 2011.

Ingram, D. S. (2011). Through a Botanist’s Eyes: TheFlower Paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour. The Bowes Museum, 7th June, 2011.

Ingram, D.S. (2011). Fantin-Latour: Floer Painter Exraordinaire, Lochinch Castle, Stranrear, 29th May 2011.

Crowe, V. & Ingram, D. S. (2007). Plant Memory, the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

8. Conferences Organised 

Ingram, D.S. (2012). The Call of the Wild: Wild Flowers in Gardens and Art, The Broadway Connection. A one day conference at the Broadway Arts Festival, Broadway, Worcestershire.

Ingram, D. S. (2011). Ruskin’s Flora, one day Conference, the Ruskin Library and Research Centre and Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, 12th November 2011.

Ingram, D. S. (2011). Gardens in Science and Art, one day Conference organised and chaired for the Royal Society of Edinburgh at Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, 25th June 2011.

9. Reports 

Ingram, D. S. (2008). Non-native Diseases and the Future of UK Gardens: a Report by a Royal Horticultural Society Working Group on the disease and pest risk to the UK associated with international plant trade (Chaired by D. S. Ingram). Published on-line at http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/documents/AlienPD Rep.

Ingram, D. S. (2010) Review of the Biological Collections of Lancaster University: a Report of an ad hoc external review group (Chaired by D. S. Ingram). Lancaster University.

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