Tagged: Interdisciplinary

Last month, ACCESS and project partners the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES) hosted the second in a series of roundtables for the Environmental Social Science in Interdisciplinary Working project. Whereas the first roundtable focused on sharing experiences and identifying enablers and barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration which includes environmental social sciences, this latest session moved from […]

Last year, I didn’t just feel tired – I felt burnt out. There’s a version of the postdoc journey that looks neat on paper, you do a PhD, stay in the same lab, build on familiar questions with familiar people. That hasn’t been my story. My path has been more zigzag than ladder, moving across […]

Rabin Doolub doesn’t fit neatly into any one box. He’s been a teacher, a civil servant, and is now a sustainability leader in higher education. What ties his journey together is a deep commitment to making meaningful change and doing it in a way that puts people first. As Head of Environmental Sustainability at Middlesex […]

This initial roundtable is the first of three roundtables, which will help inform the project in its overall aim to develop an understanding of the key enablers and barriers to collaboration across the environmental and social sciences, and then to co-produce tailored resources to support practical approaches to bridging disciplines. This roundtable, held in central […]

Dr Najma Mohamed is Head of Nature-Based Solutions at the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) at the University of Cambridge. Dr Mohamed delivered a keynote at this year’s ACCESS Annual Assembly 2025 on ‘Putting People at the Heart of Place-Sensitive Just Transitions‘. We interviewed her afterwards, asking about her academic journey, […]

Dr Aryo Feldman grew up on the island of Jersey, where agriculture was part of the landscape and daily life. Much of the island is farmland, and with a father who worked in agricultural economics and international development, farming and food systems were always in the background. Still, it wasn’t until later that these early […]

I gave a seminar a few weeks ago at the invitation of Prof. Tim Mays, a hydrogen engineer from the University of Bath. The audience was public and varied, with a large smattering of natural science students. Putting my slides together, I asked myself, what have I, as a social scientist interested in sustainable energy […]

Anita and Rory both join ACCESS as Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellows. Anita Lateano’s PhD research combines ethnographic and arts-based methodologies to explore how coral reef conservation practices in Bunaken National Park, Indonesia, are enacted across communities, governments, NGOs and the reef itself. She will be supporting the Environmental Social Science in Interdisciplinary Working project, led […]

The project aims to strengthen interdisciplinary working between environmental and social scientists, equipping both communities with the tools and insights needed to work more effectively together on urgent environmental issues. The project is led by Birgitta Gatersleben (ACCESS Co-Director, University of Surrey), who said: “I am excited to work on this project with IES. The […]

  Melissa Marselle, Sarah Golding and Valentine Seymour ran a knowledge exchange workshop at last year’s British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2024, on behalf of ACCESS, entitled: Breaking Boundaries: Why Knowledge Exchange is the Missing Link for Impact in the Ecology Sector     They have subsequently developed this workshop into a recent blog on […]