Julie will be using the URSS funding to combine interests developed through two Second Year Global Sustainable Development (GSD) modules Security, Sovereignty and Sustainability in the Global Food System and Keeping the Phoenix Flying or Clipping its Wings?: Learning through Student Research into the Praxis of ‘local’ Sustainable Development

Specifically, the inter-disciplinary research will investigate the history of hunger in Coventry since the Industrial Revolution. It will critically analyse strategies used to combat hunger in relation to broader economic, social and political contexts. Analysis will be based on archival research and primary data generated through interviews.

It is hoped that this work will illustrate how students can feed into the University’s emerging agenda of local and regional engagement, currently being championed in the department’s research-based teaching of local sustainable development in the City of Coventry.

Anna's project will focus on the large-scale investment in renewable energy in Masdar City, which the UAE government hope will become a platform for sustainable energy research. It will explore the extent to which there is a conflict of interest in oil-rich countries between wealth accumulation from oil dominance and the investment in clean energy solutions for future energy security. Anna will visit the UAE this summer to interview representatives from the country's academic, industrial and governmental sectors.

Many congratulations to the winner of our Global Sustainable Development Photo Competition, Katharine McEnery.

Students were invited to submit creative images reflecting on the themes "What does Global Sustainable Development look like?" and "You know you're studying Global Sustainable Development when...".

The judges thought that Katharine's photo was an excellent and imaginative representation of the chosen theme.