📢calling all UoL researchers - add impact to your research & share it with members of the public! Call now open for EOI's to host an event #ESRC Festival of Social Science. Apply for up to £1k to run it & receive excellent public engagement training!💥bit.ly/49DpcmV

In new research, Paul Brockway (Dr. Paul Brockway) and colleagues used integrated assessment models to project Australia’s future under a degrowth plan.

They explored 51 degrowth and no-growth scenarios to discover their effects on climate change.

Read more:
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5…

I spy some SRI Leeds colleagues in that picture..

Had a great afternoon with the DesNZ team Department for Energy Security and Net Zero talking about all the brilliant work going on Energy Leeds (biased? Moi?) and how better to interface between research and policy. We should do this more often!

'universal basic services, universal basic income, minimum income guarantee, living wage .. to secure livelihoods in volatile or contracting economies' Critical mission to deal w climate change. From SRI Leeds Julia Steinberger et al. Ecological Economics
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📢Call for Abstracts to the 20th Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, 4th - 6th September 2024 hosted by University of Leeds. The longest-running academic conference on #CSR & #CorporateSustainability ! Submit your abstract by April 30! More info at crrconference.org

This is what our students say about our MSc Sustainable Food Systems and Food Security. Thank you Shonnia! GlobalFood@Leeds Earth and Environment at Leeds Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds SRI Leeds Food Science and Nutrition at Leeds Geography at Leeds
youtu.be/PT3N4Hnn0cI?si… via YouTube

DVC: Student Education Jeff Grabill @[email protected] outlines the creative and exciting ways we’re bringing sustainability into focus across our teaching University of Leeds, preparing students for their future careers and to make a positive impact in the world 🔽

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Net zero policy risks making the poor poorer – research calls for an inclusive transition. with Prof Lucie Middlemiss
environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/news/artic…

Dhilan Teja Singh Bahi, a graduate of Earth and Environment at Leeds, sadly passed away last year.

“He was not afraid of hard work and wanting to help both society and the environment we live in,' say his family.

'He continues to inspire us all.'

Still time to apply - closes this Wednesday, 13th Sept

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Teaching Fellow in Environmental Economics jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ENVEE1686

Great news 🔉

Leaders of West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme have gained almost £300,000 from Yorkshire Regional Flood & Coastal Committee.

It's to help make the region more resilient by boosting skills & capacity of those who manage flood risk.
bit.ly/3DJ4ZhQ

🔊Job opportunity: We're recruiting a green finance coordinator for WaterLANDS
to support our peatland restoration work with the Great North Bog.

It's an exciting opportunity to help us sustainably finance our projects.
 
Closing date Mon 14 August bit.ly/3Qlwvtf

New University of Leeds and Ipsos UK research finds that 'the public are very concerned about the impacts of a changing climate' - 'they think the nation is unprepared and that action is urgently needed now.'

Professor Suraje Dessai is quoted in NationalWorld: nationalworld.com/news/politics/…

We've lots of hot summer news for you in our latest Bulletin.
👍5 new projects have just been given the go ahead
🔉we've set a date Wednesday 22 November for our annual Confluence
💚Updates on #WYFLIP , @WaterLANDS & our freshwater quality programme
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Congratulations to those graduating this week!! 🎓

And an extra congratulations from our campus biodiversity friends 🐰 🌱 🦆

Make sure to tag us in your graduation photos in any sustainability spots on campus 📸

The first RD20 summer school hosted 50 early career researchers in Prapoutel, France to collaborate on clean energy technologies. Dr Imogen Rattle, Colin Nolden CREDS and Tedd et al discuss their experiences there. lght.ly/4n9j71k

Our new research woodland is a finalist for the Green Gown Award for research with impact!

Thanks to everyone at University of Leeds Sustainability UBoC The White Rose Forest Forestry Commission Leeds Council News and Defra UK for making the #GairWood project possible!

Are you a Uni Leeds Staff researcher looking for ways to engage with UK Parliament?

Knowledge Exchange Unit at UK Parliament offer resources and support to help you find opportunities to share your #ResearchInformed expertise.

Find out more: parliament.uk/get-involved/r…

You can find out more about one of our projects to tackle the huge problem of surface water flooding that is being done by Prof Cathryn Birch & Ben Maybee icasp.org.uk/enhanced-surfa…