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Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Exchange

Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Exchange WIRE
Climate Change and Sustainability

Ideas Generation Workshop - Early Career Researchers

  • Are you an Early Career Researcher motivated to develop research skills and capabilities for innovative thinking needed to solve critical Climate Change and Sustainability challenges?
  • Are you stimulated by conversations with a wide range of researchers with diverse disciplinary background?
  • Are you seeking to enhance your research network and meet other enthusiastic and innovative researchers?
  • Do you want to explore interdisciplinary collaboration?

About the Event

WIRE is the newly formed Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Exchange.

It aims to bring together a range of researchers across the University, to explore and discover possibilities for future interdisciplinary collaborations.

Our contribution to solving the wicked problems of Climate Change and Sustainability starts by bringing together talented and open-minded researchers, who are daring enough to challenge the status quo of how we are addressing problems.

WIRE intends to be a catalyst to foster conversations between researchers keen to engage with each other across disciplines.

Addressing Climate Change and Sustainability challenges means moving ourselves out of the comfort zone of our disciplines and ways of thinking. It means getting us to think the unthinkable.

Time Name Description 
9:30 - 9:45
Registration & Networking
 A structured but relaxed networking process after
people have completed registration
09:45 - 09:55
Welcome & Introduction

 Prof Kita SotaroLink opens in a new window, Academic Director (Research)Link opens in a new window
 
Christine Bell Link opens in a new windowwill provide a short overview of the day.
Process and dynamic network - identifying people
who are open to meeting and developing
connections with others

09:55 - 10:35
Session 2: Exploring the Three Themes
  • Low carbon technologies and
    sustainable futures
  • Pathways towards sustainability
  • Climate Action in context of SDGs

You will join a discussion group on your chosen
theme and create a challenge map to compare the
vision for this research space and the current
situation and what some of the big questions are
that need addressing and how you might be able to
contribute to these

10:35 - 10:55
Session 3: Innovation for Impact
You will work teams from Session 2 to generate
innovative ideas for interesting research that will
support the 2032 vision
10:55 - 11:15
Refreshment Break in Radcliffe lounge
  
11:15 - 12:00
Session 4:
Interdisciplinary Reflection : Rubies in the Rubble

A plenary session for individuals to propose
research"what if" ideas that they would like to
discuss in the afternoon session

12:00 - 12:05
Reflective pause

Small groups developing potential research ideas -
identifying the big picture and the small initial step
12:05 - 12:30
Session 6: Research Ideas

Open forum

 A plenary session for individuals to propose
research"what if" ideas that they would like to
discuss in the afternoon session
12:30 - 13:15
Lunch at Radcliffe & Networking
  
13:15 - 13:55
Session 7: Developing Ideas
Developing Ideas from the template and preparing
a short pitch
13.55 - 14.10
Refreshment Break in Radcliffe lounge
  
14:10 - 15:05
Panel discussion and feedback
  
15:05 -15:15
Closing comments and wrap up
  
     

Aim of the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Exchange

WIRE is the newly formed Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Exchange with the aim to
bring together a range of researchers across the University to explore and discover
possibilities for future interdisciplinary collaborations.

Warwick Institute of Engagement hosts Master Classes that can support your engagement skills and presenting your research in an innovative way.
More information about the Learning Skills FestivalLink opens in a new window 

Are you interested in Policy makers? Warwick is a member of a number of bodies that can support you.

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