SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE
GWR Sustainability Exchange Conference 2009
Friday 25th September 2009
Queen’s Building, University of Exeter
This one-day conference was tailored to postgraduate students and provided a mix of paper presentations, posters, workshops and networking between fellow students and academic staff. Students at all stages of their research participated, and sessions provided support and advice to students at all stages of their research, developing a virtual support network for sustainability students in the South West through the connections made at this event
Professor David Billington and Professor Michael Winter were asked to decide on the best two posters presented at the conference. After long discussions, it was agreed that Diego Colombara from the University of Bath should be awarded the 1st Prize (£50 book voucher) for the poster 'New photovoltaic materials' and Stephen Simm from the University of Exeter should be awarded 2nd prize (£25 book voucher) for the poster 'Designing a zero carbon school'. Click below for more details of the winning posters:
GWR Coastal Defences Project
For details of the GWR sponsored project in Coastal Defences please click here.
SUSTAINABILITY SEMINARS
GWR are organising a series of seminars in the South West on broad topics within 'Sustainability'. These seminars can viewed 'live' at Exeter, Bath, Bristol, UWE and Plymouth via Access Grid nodes in these universities.
Recorded seminars
8th March - Allan Butler, 'Expanding biogas plants in the UK: A win-win-win solution to sustainable energy production?', Centre for Rural Policy Research, Exeter University (NOT RECORDED)
1st March - Mary Quicke MBE, Quickes Cheese, Newton St Cyres, Devon, 'Sustainability and slow food on a Devon farm'
22nd Feb. - David Coley, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Energy and the Environment, University of Exeter, 'Food Miles: a knowledge transfer project at Riverford Organics'
10th Feb. - Tim Jackson, University of Surrey and Director of RESOLVE, 'Prosperity without growth'
5th Feb. - Tim Lang, City University, 'Sustainable diet - Fact or fiction?'
1st Feb. -David Banister, Professor of Transport Studies, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, The sustainability of high speed rail - Reinventing the Wheel
7th December - Damian Maye, 'Sustainable food futures? Local food networks and food security'
30th Novermber 2009 - Matt Lobley (GWR Fellow, Exeter University), 'Local food for local people'
17th November 2009 - Jeff French (Brunel University and a Fellow at Kings College University London), 'Social Marketing what it is, and how it can help tackle big and small social issues’
9th November 2009 - Lorraine Whitmarsh (Cardiff University) , 'Public uncertainty about climate change'
2nd November 2209 - Matthias Varul, 'Fairtrade and Critical Research - What Role for Academic Comment?
October 19th 2009 - Duncan Russel, 'Connecting Science and Policy: The Impact of the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee on the implementation of sustainable development in the United Kingdom'
If you like to view recording of the following seminars, please contact Paul Hudson
Monday 18th May: Jay Talbot, Chair of the Community Council of Devon, Current challenges facing rural communities
Monday 16th March: Nigel Griffiths, Sustainable building renovation
Monday 9th March: Prof. Catherine Mitchell, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, The drivers for, and contraints of, delivering a sustainable energy policy in the UK
Monday 23rd February: Neil Carter (University of York) and Charlotte Burns (University of Leeds), Vote blue, go green? The conservatives and the environment
Monday 12th January 2009: Marja van Loef, Cornwall sustainable tourism project (Coast)
Monday 8th December 2008: Dr Guy Schumann, GWR Research Fellow (University of Bristol, University of Bath), Space borne radar and flood hydrology: floods of data
Monday 1st December 2008: Dr Tim Ryley, Lecturer in Transport Studies, Loughborough University, Sustainability and air travel
Monday 24th November: Dr Martin Genner, GWR Research Fellow (University of Bristol, Plymouth University, Marine Biological Association), What can genetics tell us about fish movements?
Monday 16th Feruary: Mark Robins, RSPB, England's protected landscapes: sleeping giants of a sustainable rural England?