For people in so-called ‘marginal’ environments, in coastal and dryland areas, the Covid-19 pandemic adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges. Recent weather events such as Cyclone Amphan have compounded the problems faced in some regions.
This webinar exploring the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for bottom-up transformations to sustainability was convened by the TAPESTRY project.
This short photo narrative about the brutal killing of migrant workers in Libya was written and produced by MISTY project team member Tasneem Siddiqui alongside her team at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) of the University of Dhaka.
In this web talk for the Environmental Support Group, Andrew Stirling of the GoST project talks how the pandemic shines a light on uncertainty, and what is needed now to realize many kinds of better – but unknown and uncontrollable – worlds in the future.
Read Andrew Stirling’s blog on the same topic here.
This webinar took place on 15 April 2020, with speakers Susi Moser, Director, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, Emily Polk, Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University Ochieng’ Ogodo, Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Coordinator, SciDevNet and Lisa Herzog, Associate Professor, University of Groningen.
Science communication is being transformed by the emergence of digital and social communications platforms, and researchers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate impact and engagement through continuous communication activities and outputs, including for non-academic audiences, such as the press. For transdisciplinary research projects involving diverse groups of non-academic stakeholders, questions around which voices get heard in science communication, the ethics of communication practices, and how to maintain trust between research participants at the same time as documenting and reporting on ongoing research become crucial. This webinar will look at why developments in science communication matter for transformations to sustainability, communicating about ongoing transdisciplinary research with new audiences in an inclusive and ethical way, and how today’s communications tools can be used to foreground voices that are frequently marginalized in climate change debates.
Additional resources related to this webinar can be found here.
A short talk by Sheila Jasanoff, Principle Investigator with the GoST (Governance of Sociotechnical Transfromations) project, given at the ESRC STEPS Centre‘s 2019 symposium on uncertainty.
CONVIVA – the Convivial Conservation project – has launched a new video that explains convivial conservation as a new approach that tackles the roots of the conservation crisis, challenges market-based and colonial approaches, and focuses on justice for people and nature.
This is part of a range of resources on the new-look CONVIVA website, which also contains the first episode of the convivial conservation podcast, blogs, and other resources.
On 12 September 2019, the T2S programme held its first ‘feedback shop’ in order to faciliate regular communication, exchange and learning between the different project teams involved in the programme.
In this webinar, three T2S projects (H2O-T2S, TRUEPATH and Waterproofing Data) updated the community on their progress since launching in late 2018, with a special focus on the strategies and methodologies they are using for stakeholder engagement, as well as related challenges. The short presentations were then followed by an open discussion with participants.
Listen to the discussions online here (email registration required)
View slides from the presentations here:
In this short video published by FAPESP, João Porto de Albuquerque introduces the Waterproofing Data project, the project’s partners in Brazil and the transformative approach to research being undertaken through the project.
Dr Porto de Albuquerque is Project Leader of Waterproofing Data: Engaging stakeholders in sustainable flood risk governance for urban resilience.
Sheila Jasanoff, Principle Investigator with the GoST (Governance of Sociotechnical Transfromations) project, gave a keynote address on ‘Unmodern imaginaries: infrastructures for a sustainable world’ at the Pathways to Sustainability Conference in Utrecht on 24 January 2019.
The conference was organized by Utrecht University, and videos of all the sessions are available online. See also scientific director of the conference Maarten Hajer’s interview with Professor Jasanoff: ‘Knowing is profoundly ethical‘.
