IGSD News
Sustainability Spotlight Network+ Initiative - is live now!
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Sustainability Spotlight Network+ Initiative During the Warwick Research Culture Day on 29 April 2024, the new interdisciplinary Spotlight Initiatives were launched to replace GRPs and to drive the university forward into a new REF landscape. One of them - Sustainability Spotlight - was won by a collective of researchers, led by IGSD. Sustainability Spotlight is set to be a network-of-networks, focusing on research on sustainability. In addition to IGSD, it includes 4 other networks – the Environmental Humanities Network (led by Prof. Graeme Macdonald, Faculty of Arts), the Sustainable Society Network (led by Prof. Giuliana Battisti, WBS), WESIC (led by Prof. Gary Bending, Life Sciences) and WMG Materials & Innovation Network (led by Associate Prof. Stuart Coles) – and brings together over 2000 researchers! We aim for the network to be all-inclusive, and its objectives are:
We are planning to have an informal launch in early July, and everyone whose research focuses on sustainability is warmly welcome! We will announce the programme soon. Please follow us on https://warwick.ac.uk/research/spotlights/sustainability/. |
WUB Hub webinar: Economies Under Siege, Paths for Reconstruction
The Warwick Ukraine-Belarus Hub convened its webinar 'Economies Under Siege, Paths for Reconstruction'. The speakers were: Ivan Us, Chief Consultant with the National Institute for Strategic Studies (Ukraine); Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK); Lev Lvovskiy, Academic Director, BEROC; and Tatiana Termacic, Head of the Secretariat of the Committee on Migration, Refugees, and Displaced Persons, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Recordings of all webinars in the series are available on our website here.