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Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs - mapping and reducing waste in the food-energy-water nexus

We aim to map and substantially reduce waste in the urban food-energy-water (FEW) nexus in city-regions across three continents: Europe, Africa and South America. We will establish four Urban Living Labs (ULL) of key stakeholders who will undertake participatory research to: a) map resource flows; b) identify critical dysfunctional linear pathways; c) agree the response most appropriate to the local context (e.g. policy intervention, technology diffusion); d) model the market and non-market economic value of each intervention; and e) engage with decision makers to close each loop.


UN sponsored conflict resolution in Kyrgyzstan: Why do external peacebuilding interventions not correspond to insider needs?

This project responds to the experience of policy-makers and practitioners working on ‘preventing violent extremism’ (PVE) who find policies developed and implemented under the rubric of PVE to be ambiguous and vague which can lead to dignity being compromised.


Modernity and Disability: Ensuring Quality Education for Disabled Students (MUSE)

The overall objective of the MUSE project is to improve access, ensure learning conditions and develop employment opportunities for HEIs’ Disabled Students in Latin American countries via modern inclusion practices and networking. The three Latin American countries involved in are Chile, Mexico and Argentina, with the support of institutions in EU (UK, Spain, Italy and Greece).


Evaluation of 'Unlocking Nature: Greening our prison spaces

Unlocking Nature targeted two areas, an improvement in the built prison environment and the introduction of land-based interventions. Both activities have been acknowledged as influencing the physical and mental health and wellbeing of incarcerated men and women.


Multiphase Flow Metrology in Oil & Gas Production (MULTIFLOWMET II)

Multiphase flow measurement is a fundamental enabling metrology in subsea oil and gas production. However, field measurements exhibit high measurement uncertainty, costing industry billions of euros in financial exposure and production inefficiencies.


Training of Trainers in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

Training programs for start-up coaches and E&I at Universities in Hanoi, Vietnam.  HE institutions and organisation in Vietnam mainly teach business with traditional business models such as small and medium-sized enterprises or corporate business models.


STARTIN Developing inclusive and innovative entrepreneurship education in Europe

The aim of START IN project is to stimulate the “social entrepreneurial mindset”, developing capacities and abilities from early ages, laying the foundations for young social entrepreneurs to transform ideas into action in different social, cultural or economic contexts.


Virtual Reality Archive Learning - Teaching Skills Through Heritage And Technology

Join us for an online celebration of the end of the EU project ViRAL - Virtual Reality Archive Learning. We will be promoting the project and demonstrating the free resources and learning material we have made to be used for training and upskilling adults, using exciting assets from heritage and culture and new technology such as 360, AR and VR.


Leveraging bio-active plants in smallholder goat production

Dr. Lovemore C. Gwiriri is a post-doctoral smallholder livestock systems research scientist at Rothamsted Research involved in agricultural systems socio-economic analysis.


Postdigital Intimacies Symposium

Postdigital Intimacies addresses important issues in how we make sense of our minds, bodies, relationships and emotional worlds.


The Living Classroom Film by GardenAfrica (GardenAfrica Films)

The Living Classroom is the cumulative result of GardenAfrica’s learning and work alongside agroecology specialists and training organisations in sub-Saharan Africa since 2001. GardenAfrica is a UK NGO that collaborates with in-country partners to co-design and develop initiatives that promote plant-based solutions to address everyday challenges.


Moving from the Global to the Local: Co-creation for Humanitarian Energy

Coventry University's HEED will be exploring state-of-the-art concepts of co-creation in the humanitarian energy context through the voices of sector experts.


UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment (UK CITE)

The overall project aim is to create one of the world’s most advanced environments for connected and autonomous driving.


Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised, Pervasive and Gameful Learning (BEACONING)

BEACONING sets a forefront in multifaceted education technologies through large-scale piloting of a digital learning platform that blend physical and digital spaces.


Breathing test: A Dying Melody

This autoethnographic work explored the transmission of trauma memory, loss and mourning; the liminal spaces of breathing and dying; grief and healing, which have become prevalent themes in Saxon’s work.


Circular Economy Research and Development Network for Sustainable Food Supply Chain

Maximising food circulation from production to consumption and optimising the value of food across the supply chain.


AREA – Augmented Reality Enhanced Assembly

This explored the use of augmented reality in the context of manufacturing assembly workers required to conduct complex product assemblies (such as high performance battery packs for electric vehicles) with increased efficiency.


Promoting and critiquing global citizenship education: Mobilising reflexive approaches

In this talk, Professor Pashby will draw on critiques of global competence to raise the ‘diversity dilemma’ at the heart of work towards SDG 4.7.


Creative Fabric Puppetry: Festival of Social Science

Build a puppet session where participants will explore character creation, narratives and small-scale puppet making. 


Ecocide: A 21st Century International Crime in the Making?

In this CTPSR Webinar, Dr Suwita Hani Randhawa, a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), will speak about the issue of whether ecocide will come to be recognised as an international crime.