STA Programme and Resources
Saturday 29/03 Sunday 30/03 Monday 31/03 Tuesday 01/04 Wednesday 02/04 Thursday 03/04 Friday 04/04 Saturday 05/04
Saturday 29/03
Participant Arrival : No Group Dinner Arrangements
Sunday 30/03
10.30 – 13.00 - Induction in the STA programme and activities
13.00 - 15.00 - Lunch
15.00 - 17.00 - Exploring Venice’s Sustainability Challenges: A Field Immersion in Urban Resilience - led by 17.00 - 19.00 - Creative Skills 1: Research Through Objects – An Icebreaker Exploration - Dr Harriet Richmond, University of Warwick
19.00 - 21.00 Dinner
Monday 31/03
8:30 - 9.00 - Welcome Coffee and Warm-ups
9.00 - 11.00 - ECR Interdisciplinary Research Spotlight: Individual Presentations
Chair: Prof. Elena Korosteleva ; University of Warwick
ECR Participants: Nigar Gurbanli; Elizabeth Smith; Deirdre Carolan; Alan Seemon; Fidan Namazova
11.10 - 13.00 - Critical Concepts: The future of global climate governance
11.10 - 12.00 - Planetary boundaries, the Anthropocene and just transitions in the global south - Prof. Harini Nagendra , Azim Premji University
12.00 - 12.45 - Case-Study Reflections on the Anthropocene's Challenges: a roundtable
12:45 - 13.05 - Nourishing Venice: Agroecology, Organic and Regererative Farming and the Right to Food for a Resilient Venice and its Lagoon
Savino Cimarosto, Agricultural entrepreneur, Owner of i&s Farm Il Biologico di Sant'Erasmo - Venezia.
13.05 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 - Creative Skills Workshop – Exploring Innovative Approaches - Dr Harriet Richmond , University of Warwick
17.00 - 17.30 - NASA Open Science resource webinar (optional)
17.30 - 18.00 - Group Work Induction - Dr Vangelis Pitidis , University of Warwick
20.00 - 21.30 - Dinner
Tuesday 01/04
8.30 - 9.00: Welcome Coffee and Warm-ups
9.00 - 11.00: Interdisciplinary Approaches:
11.00 - 13.00: ECR Research Spotlight: Individual Presentations
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 16.00: Critical Concepts 2: Navigating Complexity & Designing Resilient Systems for Alternative Futures (with a break in between)
16.00 - 19.00 Group Project Work
19.00 - 20.00 Dinner
Wednesday 02/04
8.30 - 9.00 - Welcome Coffees and Warm-ups
9.00 - 11.00 - ECR Research Spotlight: Individual Presentations
11.00 – 13.00 - Critical concepts 3: Unlocking the Potential: Innovations, Shortfalls, and Opportunities in Just Transitions
With provocations from: Dr Anar Valiyev , ADA University; Dr Feng Mao ; Dr Vangelis Pitidis and Laura Quinteros; University of Warwick (with breaks in between)
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 - Interdisciplinary Methods
16.00 - 19.00 - Group Project Work
19.00 - 20.00 - Dinner
Thursday 03/04
8.30 - 9.00 - Welcome Coffee and Warm-ups
9.00 - 11.00 - ECR Research Spotlight: Individual Presentations
Chair: Dr Vangelis Pitidis , University of Warwick
ECR Participants: Laura Quinteros; Genevieve J. Sekumbo; Abbas Babayev; Leia Achampong; Roxanne Douglas; Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos
11.00 - 13.00 - Interdisciplinary Methods (with a break in between)
11.15 - 12.00 - Literary and interpretive methods: ecocriticism - Dr Bryan Brazeau, University of Warwick
12.15-13.00 - Using historical methods to unpack dynamics of complex social-ecological systems - Dr Hita Unnikrishnan , University of Warwick
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 - Critical concepts 4: Cities, resilience, and participatory approaches (with a break in between)
14.00 - 14.55: Researching Urban Resilience & Transitions - Dr Anar Valiyev , ADA University
15.05 - 16.00: Mapping and participatory methods - Dr Vangelis Pitidis , The University of Warwick
16.00 - 19.00 - Project Group Work
19.00 - 20.00 - Dinner
Friday 04/04
9.00 - 13.00 - Group Work Presentations
Group 1: Nigar Gurbanli; Elizabeth Smith; Dierdre Carolan; Alan Seemon
Group 2: Fidan Namazova; Shoislomova Komilakhon; Yanni Chen; Victor Rezende Moreira
Group 3: Inara Yagubova; Gah-Kai Leung; Ygor Santos Melo; Sukanya Basu; Diana Rincon Valbuena
Group 4: Hajar Huseynova; Murtozaev Sardorbek; Laura Quinteros; Genevieve J. Sekumbo
Group 5: Abbas Babayev; Leia Achampong; Roxanne Douglas; Gunjan Chowhan
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 - From STA to the Real-World Impact: Translating Knowledge to Practice
14:00 - 14:20 - A roadmap to keeping in touch & putting your knowledge to practice - Prof. Elena Korosteleva , University of Warwick
14:20 - 14:40 - Funding opportunities to stay in touch - Dr Feng Mao , University of Warwick
14:40 - 15:00 - Place-based opportunities to engage with the STA - Ms Nargiz Ismayilova , ADA University; Prof. Harini Nagendra , Azim Premji University (via video link)
15.00-15.15 - Break
15.15 - 16.00 - Archiving Place and Practice: Weaving Venice into Global Contexts through Visual Dispatches (via Padlet)
16.00 - 16.30 - Concluding remarks from the STA team and partners
16.30 - 19.00 - Cultural Excursion
19.00 - 21.00pm Dinner & Farewell
Saturday 05/04
Check out : No food arrangements made
Suggested Resources Stevis, D. and Felli, R., 2020. Planetary Just Transition? How Inclusive and How Just?. Earth System Governance 6: 100065.
Stockholm Resilience Centre , their research and publications
Klein, Naomi. 2019. On Fire: The Burning Case for the Green New Deal. Penguin.
Hess, David J. and Lacee A. Satcher (2019) “Conditions for successful environmental justice mobilizations: an analysis of 50 cases.” Environmental Politics 28(4): 663-684.
Loorbach D., Frantzeskaki N., and Avelino F., 2017 Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change, Annual Review of Environmental Resources, 42, pp 599-626Link opens in a new window
Korosteleva, E. (2025, forthcoming) Complexity and Community in IR: nurturing resilience in Central Eurasia. Oxford University Press.
Korosteleva, E. and I. Petrova (2022) 'What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change?' Introduction to Special Issue, Cambridge Review of International Studies , available here
Dialogical Participatory mapping manuals: Manual 1Link opens in a new window Manual 2Link opens in a new window
Serious Game Cookbook: A beginners guide to using and designing serious gamesLink opens in a new window
Westman, L., & Castán Broto, V. (2022). Urban transformations to keep all the same: The power of ivy discourses . Antipode , 54 (4), 1320-1343.
Wang, X., and Lo, K. 2021. Just transition: a conceptual review. Energy Research and Social Science 82:102291.
Newell, P. and Mulvaney, D. (2013), The political economy of the ‘just transition ’. The Geographical Journal, 179: 132-140.
Stark, A., Gale, F., & Murphy-Gregory, H. (2023). Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review. Society & Natural Resources , 36 (10), 1277–1297. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2207166.
Newell, P., & Simms, A. (2020). How Did We Do That? Histories and Political Economies of Rapid and Just Transitions. New Political Economy , 26 (6), 907–922. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1810216.
Bouzarovski, S. (2022), Just Transitions: A Political Ecology Critique. Antipode, 54: 1003-1020. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12823.
Behuria, P. (2025). The injustice of just transitions: How the neglect of the green division of labour cements African dependencies . Energy Research & Social Science ,122 , 104007.
Fitz-Henry, E., & Klein, E. (2024). From just transitions to reparative transformations . Political Geography ,108 , 103004.
Kumar,Geography Compass , 16(10), e12659. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12659.
PECS methods webinar on Historical Analysis of Social Ecological systems available to watch here .
Additional Resources will be added in the coming weeks.
