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SSNI - Sustainability Spotlight Netowrk+ Initiative - is live now!

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:

  • Creation of a single information and communication space for all, with a focus on sustainability research
  • Visualisation of our networks
  • Nurturance of the ECR community and STS
  • Generating joint funding opportunities
  • Holding a sustainability forum with external stakeholders

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/.
Tue 30 Apr 2024, 17:17 | Tags: SDG 11 Sustainable Communities, Global Research Priorities, Sustainable Cities, Early Career Researcher, Green Week, IGSD Thematic Fellows, IGSD thematic priorities, Vangelis Pitidis, SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation, 2024, political ecology, School of Cross-Faculty Studies, SDG 3 Good Health & Wellbeing, IGSD Event, Annual Sustainability Conference ASC, Feng Mao, Hita Unnikrishnan, SDG 15 Life on Land, Warwick news, Plastics, Outreach, Sustainability Training School, SDG 14 Life Below Water, SDG 8 Decent Work & Economic Growth, SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 16 Peace & Justice. Strong Institutions, security, SDG 13 Climate Action, SDG 9 Industry Innovation & Infrastructures, SDG 1 No Poverty, SDG 2 No Hunger, SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities, SDG 4 Quality Education, Elena Korosteleva, water security, SDG 5 Gender Equality, SDG 7 Affordable & Clean Energy, SDG 17 Partnerships for SDG Goals, systems thinking, Global South, Paul Hansbury, Spotlight Initiatives

Jonathan Clarke, IGSD Thematic Fellow, was interviewed on TV news about winter crop devastation

Jonathan Clarke talks to local news about the challenges and consequences of the extended floods in the Cotswolds for local farming and regional and National food supply chains.

Sun 21 Apr 2024, 19:39 | Tags: Resilience, IGSD Thematic Fellows, IGSD thematic priorities, Research Impact, 2024, political ecology, School of Cross-Faculty Studies, podcast, Climate emergency, SDG 15 Life on Land, SDG 13 Climate Action, COP28, biodiversity, environmental governance, water security

Hita Unnikrishnan published a newspaper article

Dr Hita Unnikrishnan, IGSD new Assistant Professor, together with Prof. Harini Nagendra, has published a newspaper article 'How Bengaluru's lakes disappeared' in The Indian Express. There they discussed what it means for the local communities that once a city of lakes and a community centre for its neighbourhoods critical for local economies and sacred cosmologies, biodiversity and human wellbeing, Bengaluru's lifeworld has dried up due to climate change.

Sun 21 Apr 2024, 12:54 | Tags: Resilience, 2024, Climate emergency, SDG 15 Life on Land, SDG 13 Climate Action, biodiversity, environmental governance, India

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