Quick round up of this week's news, jobs and events

News

A few words from Keynote speakers and presenters from this year's ACCESS Assembly

Linda Bauld talking outside the XFI building at the University of Exeter

Sarah Golding in the grounds of the University of Exeter

The recordings from the Assembly will go live later next week.

Join Stewart Barr for an ACCESS webinar looking at How can we de-carbonise travel in the workplace? From values to action

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Events & Training

Making the Most of Climate Assemblies - Playbook for Civil Society Organisations

Tuesday 2 July, 3 to 4.30pm, online

The Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies is organising a launch event of the Playbook, an 8-stage process for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to consider their role in ways that build their knowledge and confidence to act. Written by Alina Averchenkova from the LSE Grantham Institute, she makes the case that CSOs can contribute significantly to ensuring assemblies have robust impacts on climate governance.

Jobs

Wind turbine with a sunset in the distance

Three Environmental Social Science PhD studentships at the University of Bath

The University of Bath are looking for three PhD studentships as part of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures programme.

Closing dates vary but the start date for all three posts will be September 2024

Centre Manager for CAST

The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) is seeking a manager to be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Centre. The role includes overseeing all aspects of administration and support for research including financial reporting, networking, communications and capacity building activities and ensuring continuing integration between the collaborating institutions.

Closing date for applications is Sunday 14 July

Funding

Talent Development Awards scheme 2024-25

The British Academy is now inviting applications. The aim of the scheme is to promote the building of skills and capacities for current and future generations, including in core areas like quantitative skills, interdisciplinarity, data science, digital humanities and languages.

The scheme is intended for established researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

Closing date for applications is Wednesday 11 September

Info

Scientist in white coat looking down a microscope

Do scientists need to be ‘relatable’ for the public to trust their role in policymaking?

Social media and a rolling news cycle have led to significant increase in and diversification of the types experts and expertise circulating in the public sphere. It has also introduced media dynamics into the production of knowledge.

Drawing on the findings of new British Academy Report, Public Trust in Science for Policymaking, Christina Boswell and Molly Morgan Jones, suggest that the link between trust and relatability is important to good science communication.

Decolonising International Research Collaborations Requires us to go Beyond the “Ts and Cs Apply” Approach

Eyob Balcha Gebremariam writes in his article for The Development Studies Association. "There is a tendency to adopt a "Ts & Cs Apply" approach in international research collaborations between the "Global North" and "Global South" knowledge actors (universities and researchers). In this approach, "research ethics" is often considered a solution for redressing inequalities but often serves as camouflage for sustaining coloniality and unjust and unequal relations."

Ethics for the Coming Storm - Climate Change and Jewish Thought

This new book from Laurie Zoloth from Oxford University Press re-examines the usual Biblical narratives and rabinic commentary to better understand and act in the time of climate crisis. She argues for a creative exploration of philosophic and historical arguments for social ethics and social action, seeking a collective and not only an individual solution to global warming.

The importance of understanding the multiple dimensions of power in stakeholder participation for effective biodiversity conservation

From People and Nature (British Ecological Society), Lou Lecuyer and others investigate how different dimensions of power in participatory processes affect biodiversity conservation objectives.

Nature's Workforce: guides for the workplace

Nature's Workforce is an online series of resources and step-by-step conversation guides, designed by the National Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and World Wildlife Fund to support companies and employees in bringing nature into the workplace; understanding the links between businesses and nature, asking the right questions, engaging colleagues and taking action.

Art can change the world, but can it save us from climate extinction?

In this article in The Guardian, Katy Hessel wonders if work like Judy Chicago’s drawing series, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, currently on show at the Serpentine in London, will join the great tradition of women using art to influence laws.