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Sustainability Spotlight Network+ Initiative - is live now!
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Sustainability Spotlight Network+ Initiative During the 果冻传媒 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 /research/spotlights/sustainability/. |
SHAPEDEM-EU Research Fellow discussed David Cameron's Central Asia tour
SHAPEDEM-EULink opens in a new window Research Fellow Dr. Aijan SharshenovaLink opens in a new window discussed David Cameron's recent Central Asia and Mongolia tour in the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Majlis . Other participants included Professor Luca Anceschi from Glasgow University and Benjamin Godwin, PRISM political risk management company. Lord Cameron's visit covered all five Central Asian republics and ended in Mongolia.
Professor Korosteleva speaks at the EUISS, European Council Brussels
Professor Korosteleva was invited by the EUISS to speak on and the need to rethink EU support for Moldova, Georgia and Armenia, at the European Council Building, Brussels. The meeting was attended by the officials from the European Commission, External Action Service, and country representatives working towards developing a new strategy, based on resilience. This was research with impact, in the making.
SHAPEDEM-EU Research Fellow is interviewed by Deutsche Welle's Russian service
SHAPEDEM-EULink opens in a new window Research Fellow Dr Aijan SharshenovaLink opens in a new window (SHAPEDEM-EULink opens in a new window project) was interviewed by the Russian service of in relation to the recent adoption of the "foreign agents" law in Kyrgyzstan and the imminent closure of the , a private non-government foundation set up by the Open Society Institute in 1993.
Jonathan Clarke, IGSD Thematic Fellow, was interviewed on TV news about winter crop devastation
Jonathan Clarke talks about the challenges and consequences of the extended floods in the Cotswolds for local farming and regional and National food supply chains.