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ACCESS - Advancing Capacity for Climate  and Environment Social Science

Tagged: Sustainability


Good practice is key to change: Rabin Doolub’s sustainability with heart


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 […]


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Flex Fund Project Music Event


How do communities care for their people, nature and place? Of The Land is a musical exploration of community experiences and practices in Badenoch and Strathspey as they respond to climate and nature crises. This event is part of the Building Sustainability on a Foundation of Care project, led by Sarah Parry (University of Edinburgh), which received an […]


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New ACCESS project on Environmentally Just AI


Led by Professor Sarah Hartley (ACCESS Leadership Team, University of Exeter), this short project will examine the environmental impacts of AI through a social-science lens, providing a holistic understanding of the problem and making policy recommendations to address these impacts in a way that is environmentally and socially just.   Click here to read more about […]


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How and why Muslims engage with the natural world and environmental sustainability – Flex Fund Project Update


Through recorded interviews, he explores how and why Muslims engage with the natural world and environmental sustainability. Here is a trailer highlighting some of key thoughts and comments made in the interviews.   Highlights from some of the other interviews can be found here. Read more about Davide’s project here  


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Where we live next – how can policy help to SHAPE sustainable places?


  This week (Tuesday 7 November) I joined several ACCESS Co-Investigators at a British Academy event in Exeter city centre looking at what a future sustainable Exeter might look like. The workshop also included several other academics, an ACCESS Leadership college fellow (lovely to catch up Mandy Bisset from The Southampton Collective), as well as […]


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ACCESS scopes funding areas for ESRC


In 2022, ACCESS provided high-level insights from the community and produced the first scoping report that helped shape a call for research funding published by ESRC in early 2023.  This focused on place-based approaches to sustainable living. ACCESS Phase I and Phase II Combined Report – December 2022 ESRC Funding Opportunity: Place-based approaches to sustainable […]


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Conference and submissions call – Livable cities – Sustainable cities


Wednesday 26 to Friday 28 June 2024 Livable Cities is an initiative between City – University of London, AMPS and City Tech – New York. Highlighting issues of sustainability and resilience, its upcoming conference welcomes submissions from across disciplines and, importantly, from different sites internationally. Issues of interest include, but are not limited to: sea […]


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Seminar: Building capacities and competencies for sustainable infrastructure


Wednesday 21 June, 12 to 1pm Gary Kass is Deputy Chief Scientist at Natural England and a visiting Professor at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey. Here he supports the development of key competencies for sustainability. He has recently joined the Advisory Board for the Centre for Systems Engineering and […]


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