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Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Exchange

WIRE: Climate Change and Sustainability

Ideas Generation Workshop

Tuesday 21 June 2022 - 9:30 am - 3 pm

Space 2, Radcliffe Conference Centre

  • 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 address 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.

Participation is free. Places are limited so please register early to avoid disappointment.

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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

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
Coffee Break
  
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 Scarman & Networking
  
13:15 - 13:55
Session 7: Developing Ideas
Developing Ideas from the template and preparing
a short pitch
13:55 - 15:05 Panel & Feedback  
15:05 -15:15 Closing & Wrap Up  
     

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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.

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