On 27 March 2025 the SHAPEDEM-EU project had its Steering Group meeting to discuss the results and findings of individual Work Packages and plan the remaining 6 months of the project. WP2, led by Prof. Korosteleva and Dr Asya Kudlenko, was proud to report that all its deliverables have been either met or on track to be met for their respective deadlines.

Maria Anjelica Ancheta, a PhD student from the Asia Institute of Technology in Thailand, who joined our IGSD STS Global in 2024, recently published a blog reflecting about her experience and how it enriched her thinking. The blog is titled 'From Research to Resilience: My Journey at the CR STS 2.0 at Warwick', and is also featured on Anjelica's University's social media site here.

It is amazing to see how ECRs can grow both in their intellectual and cultural journeys when are given the right opportunities to engage!

Professor Elena Korosteleva was invited to give a talk on 'Why we should think 'Resilience' when we talk about Green Transitions?' to the CAPTURED project organised by Warwick's Policy Lab. Elena focused on understanding the Anthropocene through the lens of a VUCA-world and complexity-thinking, and why we need to understand resilience as a way of living, relating, and managing complex life. Green transitions - whichever ways we think of them - will not happen if we 1) don't have a holistic approach; 2) don't change our thinking & behaviour; and 3) don't facilitate agential change, through nurturing resilience as political agency.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to attend the 2025 Chatham House 'Security and Defence' conference held on 6 March 2025. The conference brought together over 600 global policymakers, senior military and armed forces figures, business leaders and civil society experts. Keynotes included Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Zaluzhnyi, UK Ministers and NATO senior officials, high-level panel dialogues, and ‘under-the-Rule’ spotlights.

The 'From Baku to Belém' workshop, organised under the auspices of the Warwick Climate Governance and Policy Nexus (NEXUS), the Warwick Sustainability Spotlight, and the Climate Finance for Equitable Transition (CLiFT), took place as a platform for capacity building, policy advocacy, information dissemination, and networking. The event brought together academics, negotiators, policymakers, civil society groups, and representatives from bilateral and multilateral finance institutions.