Water, Health and Urban Resilience

Investigating the links between water, health and resilience in Brazil and the UK.

Humanitarian Data

Building a common understanding and a collaboration platform around the challenges of data quality, geospatial methods and governance

Data, displacement and humanitarian protection

This project led by Professor Vicki Squire in Politics and International Studies will acquire improved understanding of the importance of ethically sound data-driven humanitarian aid.

Mapping deprivation levels of urban neighbourhoods

Developing transdisciplinary networks that leverage Earth observation and community-driven geospatial information to ensure access to basic urban services.

Waterproofing Data

Investigating the governance of water-related risks, with a focus on social and cultural aspects of data practices.

UKRI GCRF: URBE Latam

Expanding and refining the understanding of risks, vulnerabilities and potentialities associated with rain-related geohazards in Latin America.

Geo-spatial Mapping of Health Services in Slums

Mapping health services and facilities to understand how they are used by people living in seven slums across Africa and Asia.

Creating Interfaces

Building capacity for integrated governance at the Food-Water-Energy-nexus in cities on the water

UKRI GCRF Global Research Translation Award: Waterproofing Data

Developing, deploying and evaluating a mobile application and community-based intervention to increase the resilience of flood prone communities around several cities in Brazil.

Sustainable Development of Informal Settlements and Citarum Basin Ecologies

Developing Transdisciplinary Partnerships for Urban Water Transformations

Assessing the social impacts of 'Our Spaces'

OBO: Oxford Belarus Observatory (2021-23)

Research England: Resilience and War

Studying the sources of resilience through stories of lifeways and their disruption in Ukraine.

GCRF COMPASS+ Research Impact Forum

Comprehensive Capacity Building in Central Eurasia: tackling sustainability challenges in times of war and crises

PSF: Mapping of Communities' Knowledge

Facilitating knowledge exchange between citizens and policy makers through dialogical participatory mapping

Grapevine and the University of Warwick

Working with local communities in Coventry to combat air pollution by citizen science and citizen juries

Migration & management of protected areas in Madagascar

Exploring policy pathways considering migration dynamics in the sustainable management of protected areas in Madagascar

Early Career Researchers (ECR) Sustainability Training School (STS) 1.0 (2022-23)

Our first Early Career Researcher (ECR) Sustainability Training School (STS), organised by IGSD in partnership with the EUTOPIALink opens in a new window consortium, was held on 5-9 June 2023 at the University of Warwick.

Commercialising social research: Assessing social impacts of environmental policies

Offering new tools for a different approach to social impact assessments of environmental policies by promoting key principles of 'good governance'

Earth Systems Governance through Purpose Ecosystems

Investigating the role and agency of purpose ecosystems in contributing to Earth System Governance.