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Profs. Roberta Bivins and Elena Korosteleva meet SLS staff to discuss spotlight opportunities
On 16 October Professor Roberta Bivins and Professor Elena Korosteleva, representing the Health and Sustainability spotlights respectively, were invited to the Warwick Medical School and the School of Life Sciences to discuss the opportunities for engagement and interdisciplinary synergy building. They highlighted the possibilities for interdisciplinary funding, impact and visibility growth, as well as for connecting and training ECRs for more interdisciplinary futures. Prof. Korosteleva drew attention to the launch of ECR Training Academy for Sustainable Futures in November at COP29 in Azerbaijan, Warwick Climate Governance and Policy Network as the ROAD to COP30, and Cross-Spotlight forum in July 2025. Watch the space!
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/. |
IGSD welcomes new Thematic Fellows!
IGSD is proud to announce the new Thematic Fellows who have joined up to continue and shape our development and pioneer the pathway to our Annual Sustainability Conference in July 2024 (ASC) as one of our KPIs (warwick.ac.uk)
Welcome to our Fellows from across the three faculties.
Find our more IGSD Thematic Fellows (ITFs) (warwick.ac.uk)
Download the IGSD Whole Team Meeting Presentation (12th July 2023)
See gallery of photos from the welcome event here