IGSD News
SSNI - Sustainability Spotlight Netowrk+ Initiative - is live now!
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Sustainability Spotlight Network+ Initiative (SSNI) 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 - a Sustainability Spotlight - was won by a collective of researchers, led by IGSD. SSNI 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 an SSNI launch in early July, and would be very happy to welcome the School and our Thematic fellows there! Please follow us on https://warwick.ac.uk/research/spotlights/sustainability/. |
New paper published in CITIES
New paper on the use of participatory mapping in Brazilian marginalised communities led by Dr Vangelis Pitidis and entitled 'Advancing equitable ‘resilience imaginaries’ in the Global South through dialogical participatory mapping: Experiences from informal communities in Brazil' has been published in the Cities Journal. This is a methodological paper presenting the outcomes of Vangelis's work in an number of projects and focuses on resilience building through geospatial data generation.
Dr Pitidis attends RiskPACC 3rd Awareness Workshop
Dr Pitidis attended the EU-funded project RiskPACC 3rd Awareness Workshop organised at European Forum for Urban Security (Efus) and hosted by the 20th district City Hall in Paris between 12-13 February, representing the Warwick team.
The RiskPACC 3rd Awareness Workshop was organised by the RiskPACC team along with a Knowledge Exchange Event with Municipalities and local authorities from across Europe who were willing and eager to share views on the RiskPACC tools and solutions as well as best practices. Sharing past experiences as well as respective objectives is critical for the development of suitable, adaptive and fit for purpose solutions and methodologies and increase risk awareness and preparedness.
More information about the event can be found at the project websiteLink opens in a new window!
Dr Vangelis Pitidis: ESRC Outstanding Societal Impact Prize 2023
ESRC Outstanding Societal Impact Prize 2023
Many congratulations to our own Dr Vangelis Pitidis, who has been a key contributor to this award-winning project focusing on waterproofing data. The project used citizen generated data to tackle the impact of flooding and enhance disaster and community resilience in Brazilian marginalised communities. Further details about this exciting initiative can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/newsevents/news/.
Director of Impact leads by example - excellent news and warmest congratulations, Vangelis!!!
IGSD at the 2023 ESRC Celebrating Impact Prizes
SCFS Impact Lead, Dr Vangelis Pitidis, attended the 2023 Celebrating Impact ceremony Link opens in a new windowthat took place in the Royal Society representing IGSD as a member of the Waterproofing Data team. Waterproofing Data, a project that was born and largely implemented within IGSD, won the 2023 Outstanding Societal Impact Award for 2023, for the world-class and very impactful work on using citizen generated data to tackle the impact of flooding and enhnance disaster and community resilience in Brazilian marginalised communities. This is another example of the incredible impact our research at IGSD is having in improving the everyday lives of local citizens across the world!