Open science methods for building perennial agroecosystems in Palestine

The Makaneyyat research group is working to study and build durable agroecosystems at the landscape scale in Palestine.


Adding value to contaminated media: green catalysis of nanoparticles

My research focuses on the upcycling of waste and recycled materials for the manufacturing of high value products such as nano-particles, metal/polymer- matrix composites mainly in view of energy applications.


Passivhaus New Build and Retrofit

Recent GLASU Research projects to develop Passivhaus renovation air tightness solutions, monitoring and POE of new build Passivhaus offices in the UK climate and development of bio fuel aux heat solutions for Passivhaus heat loads have applied this approach.


Using network ecology to understand and secure resilient agroecosystems

Through the adoption of methods from statistical physics the analysis of multilayer social and ecological networks is possible, giving insights into the robustness and resilience of multiple, interconnected networks.


Politics of Difference and Decolonisation

A Special Seminar for International Women's Day


Agroecological practices as territorial development: an analytical schema from Brazilian agroforestry case studies

Agroecological practices have been widely promoted as an alternative to the hegemonic agri-food system, yet they also can help to ‘green’ the system.


A Traits-based approach to determining flower visitation by pollinating bees using Vicia faba and Phaseolus vulgaris as model species

CAWR Seminar on: A Traits-based approach to determining flower visitation by pollinating bees using Vicia faba and Phaseolus vulgaris as model species


Activating the Genius Loci

Ruskin Mill Trust currently delivers a unique specialist method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education across its five colleges and three schools. The inspiration is drawn from the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris and is applied through a Goethean scientific method.


Eating for Development? Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the Sustainable Development Goals

Eating for Development? Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the Sustainable Development Goals


The Application of Environmental Forensics

The application of environmental forensics, including targeted analysis of environmental media, wastes, foods and consumer goods, has long been a core part of Greenpeace's mission to 'bear witness' to environmental problems and to seek and evaluate more sustainable solutions.


Muck and Magic

Seminar covering the story of Fordhall Community Land Initiative


Pesticides and the Great Barrier Reef. How bad is it and can we do something about it?

Professor Michael Warne works at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at the University of Coventry and the University of Queensland, Australia. He conducts research on the transport, fate and effects of pollutants on aquatic ecosystems.


A Time of Waste - Sustainable Environmental Geoscience Solutions

CAWR seminar on sustainable environmental geoscience solutions


Biological invasions: Exploring new challenges in a changing world

Biological invasions are among the most important threats to aquatic biodiversity worldwide and represents a unique form of global change. Explore this issue with researchers at CAWR's free event.


How humanities saved maths and vice versa: counting what counts in a metricised world

Ralph Kenna is a theoretical physicist with interdisciplinary research interests. After education in Ireland and Austria, and following posts in the University of Liverpool and Trinity College Dublin, he established and leads Coventry’s statistical physics group, one of the UK’s strongest.


Environment Matters to Us Too! Communities, 'Race' and Class

This year the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) will be hosting a special event to mark Black History Month.


Re-imagining the Future of Food

Matthew Adams is a Deep Ecologist, Environmental Manager (B.Sc.) and was Director of the Good Gardeners Association (2000-2011).


Monitoring and reporting on biological invasions

John Wilson is the science lead for the South African National Biodiversity Institute's Biological Invasions Directorate.  He is author/co-author of over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals with a particular focus on invasion science.