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Quick round up of this week's news, jobs and events
News
ACCESS Assembly highlights
Keynote recordings, short films, visual minutes and photos from last month's ACCESS Assembly can be viewed here
Our next newsletter will be sent out on Thursday 25 July. Thank you for everyone's contributions this week.
Events & Training
What are the most effective approaches for increasing participation in Nature in urban areas of multiple disadvantage?
Wednesday 17 July, 5 to 6pm, online
Join our Flex Fund awardee Bethan Stagg to hear about her findings from her ACCESS project. Can a novel knowledge co-production approach advance community organisations’ ability to harness the social sciences in urban bio-diversity renewal?
There will be a Q&A session following Bethan’s talk, where questions will be invited. This session will be chaired by Sophie Stenson, Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature National Committee UK's Education and Communication Working Group.
Being a therapist in a time of climate breakdown. Book Launch
Wednesday 24 July, 6 to 8pm, Reed Hall, University of Exeter
This book, edited and written by members of the Climate Psychology Alliance, introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how it is relevant to current and future clinical practice.
The authors hope it will help enable therapists and mental health professionals across a range of modalities to engage with their own thoughts and feelings about climate breakdown and consider how it both changes and reinforces aspects of their therapeutic work.
Those in or near Exeter are warmly invited to a local book launch. More info
Onshore Wind Conference
Tuesday 3 to Wednesday 4 September
RenewableUK and Scottish Renewables host this two-day event which brings together leading onshore wind experts, key players and stakeholders to share their knowledge, expertise, first-hand experiences and insights.
Jobs
Senior Researcher in the Environment, Rural, Constitution and International Research Unit at Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe)
This is a temporary post for an experienced researcher with in- depth understanding of rural affairs, agriculture, and land use policy.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 14 July
PhD Temporalities of nuclear infrastructure: histories and futures of energy and community at the University of Exeter
This is a fully funded PhD in collaboration with Nuclear Waste Services Research Support Office. The studentship explores how communities who live near major public infrastructure projects experience their relationships to the past and the future, drawing on current thinking from the humanities on infrastructure and time.
The project will inform how arts-based interventions can deepen traditional community engagement and participation processes.
Closing date for applications is Thursday 18 July
Senior Research Fellow- Engagement & Evaluation
The post of Research Fellow (Engagement and Evaluation) will be based at University College London's Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) and will work intensively with other partners of the ‘Policy and Implementation for Climate & Health Equity (PAICE)’ project.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 21 July
Junior Professorship in Environmental Psychology, Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany
They are seeking "a promising scholar representing environmental psychology in research and education, with a research focus on behavioural change, behavioural modelling, and environmental decision-making."
Closing date for applications is Monday 5 August
PhD Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of School Buildings at Cardiff University
The PhD will investigate the indoor environment of schools designed to be energy efficient, applying architecture and social science theories and methods to engage with pupils, teachers and designers.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 18 August
Opportunities
Scottish Graduate School of Social Science arranges paid internship opportunities for PhD researchers
Contribute your ideas to the UK Day One Project
The UK Day One Project is seeking ideas for science, technology, and innovation policies. Policy entrepreneurs, who will work on developing their ideas into actionable policies, have a unique opportunity to draft proposals that will inform the priorities of a new UK government.
Request for Proposal for Projections of Climate Risks, Their Societal Impact and Cost, And the Cost and Effectiveness of Adaptation Measures for Farmed Landscapes - Climate Change Commission
Closing date for proposals is Tuesday 23 July
Info
The social impact of marine developments
An insightful report from ACCESS College Leadership Fellow Pamela Buchan has just been published. The report highlights how marine development at sea can benefit their coastal communities.
'Sea blindness' is a happening where activities at sea are typically being viewed as not having any effect on nearby coastal communities.
The Crown Estate who commissioned the report said, “Crucially, it also provides a resource for the wider marine industry on how existing practice across the marine economy can be adapted to ensure that amidst the development of our seabed, onshore communities benefit.”
£24.3 million to boost UK environmental resilience and decision making
It was announced this week, a £14.8 million Resilient Coastal Communities and Seas Programme will take a transdisciplinary approach to understanding and boosting the resilience of coastal communities in all four nations of the UK. The programme is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Simultaneously, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is also investing £9.5 million in five projects that will research place-based approaches to an environmentally sustainable future, providing evidence to support local and national decision making.
Clean Heat Without the Hot Air: British and Dutch Lessons and Challenges
This UKERC blog written by Jess Britton, Matthew Lockwood and Jan Webb, reflects on the evolving approach to heat decarbonisation in the UK. They look at what changes are needed at local level, informed by a comparison with the Netherlands, which is also aiming to rapidly decarbonise a gas-dominated heating system.
Giving audiences what they want: a look at Norway’s public broadcaster’s climate change coverage strategy
Four years ago, Norway’s national broadcaster NRK set out to completely reshape its coverage of climate change, restructuring reporters’ positions in the newsroom, and investing in producing fewer, but more widely read, climate stories. How has this strategy affected NRK's coverage, as well as their understanding of what audience members want from them on climate?
The Oxford Climate Journalism Network interviews the editor-in-chief of climate and technology news and the editor-in-chief of climate and investigations to find out more.
Climate change to exacerbate the burden of water collection on women’s welfare globally
In this Nature Climate Change Journal report, the authors Robert Carr et al look at the effect water scarcity is having worldwide. "In rural households lacking access to running water, women often bear the responsibility for its collection, with adverse effects on their wellbeing through long daily time commitments, physical strain and mental distress. Here we show that rising temperatures will exacerbate this water collection burden globally."
Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation, Journal of Environment and Society
In this paper, Giovanna Gini and Annah Piggott-McKellar look at developing guidelines for just and sustainable relocation processes. They call attention to three fundamental tensions in planned relocation processes: (1) conceptualizations of risk and habitability; (2) community consultation and ownership; and (3) siloed policy frameworks and funding mechanisms.
Intergenerational Exchanges in LGBTQ+ communities
In this ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council impact project, led by Matthew Hall, Andrew King and Helen Kingstone at the University of Surrey, are working with LGBTQ+ charitable organisations to establish how best to facilitate interventions that bring different generations together.
Their brand new toolkit, presented to policymakers in Westminster in recent weeks, offers evidence-based recommendations for running intergenerational workshops with LGBTQ+ staff, members, volunteers and/or service users.
Current research practices on pro-environmental behaviour: A survey of environmental psychologists
Key take-aways from this piece of research from Cameron Brick et al in the Journal of Environmental Psychology include:
- Pro-environmental behaviour research has sampling bias of the Global North.
- Environmental impact is a top criterion for selecting behaviours to measure.
- Quantitative methods and self-reports dominate research designs.
- Rising adoption of open science practices among researchers.
Confronting ‘mobesity’ is vital for the global electrification of transport
The proliferation of large electric vehicles risks undermining the environmental and economic benefits of the green transport transition, argues Christian Brand in this UKERC blog.
A sustainability code of practice for local authority events
The UK arts and sustainability Non Government Organisation, Julie’s Bicycle, has begun a partnership with Vision:2025, ten local authorities and more than 60 events to test how a Green Events Code of Practice (GECoP) can be adopted nationally.
What can we learn and implement in the UK from forest therapy in Japan and Korea?
Jonathon Reeves, Principal Research Officer at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust recently published a report on Forest Bathing as part of his Churchill Fellowship.
