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3 year Funded Eco-Innovation Phds open for application
Graduates have until 4th June to apply for one of 50 exclusive industry-based three year funded PhDs from the Centre for Global Eco-innovation, a partnership between Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool and international commercialisation consultancy Inventya Ltd.
Tue 15 May 2012
Animal Disease Research Misses the Human Perspective
Animal disease research concentrates too much on the behaviour of micro organisms while ignoring the role played by human beings; we need to take more account of the human dimension if the work of scientists is to be translated effectively into policy, according to scientists at Lancaster and Liverpool universities.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 15 May 2012
Tropical Ecology Research Group - Tropical Festival - A Shiny Success
A group of PhD students from Lancaster Environment Centre's Tropical Research Group recently organized a vibrant and colourful Tropical Festival in The Gregson Community Centre in Lancaster.
Fri 11 May 2012
20th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Conference
Over 160 delegates from 14 countries including the USA, China, Japan and New Zealand attended the 20th annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference held at Lancaster University between 11th and 13th April 2012.
Fri 4 May 2012
Events
Developing guidelines for good practice in involving stakeholders when coping with uncertainty in managing catchment change
Wednesday 23rd May 2012, 1000-1600
LEC Training Room 2
This workshop will draw out some of the key learning points regarding the nature, significance and handling of uncertainty in catchment management decision-making drawing on experiences in Ryedale, Loweswater and the Demonstration Test Catchments (DTCs). We will attempt to translate these into clear and practical messages for the catchment management community to serve as guidance on 'coping with uncertainty in decision-making'.
(In)determinate Subjects: Indeterminacy & Justice
Speakers include: Myra Hird (Queens), Rebecca Ellis (Lancaster University), Claire Waterton
Friday 22nd June 2012, 1000-1800
FASS Meeting Room 2
Increasing attention has been given to exploring how to account for entities that are both between time and between natures, such as subject/objects, forms of biotic, technoscientific and inhuman life. This conversation will ask: In what ways can indeterminate entities be observed within (and in excess of) the material/practical conditions of their emergence? How do these conditions create different kinds of responsibility(and new vocabularies which trouble and expand the contours of 'responsibility') which we may not have yet anticipated? How can we imagine alternative forms of accounting that apprehend the ontological and temporal conditions of precarity and justice? By exploring these and further questions we
Catchment Change Network International Conference: Stakeholders, next generation models, and risk in managing catchment change
Monday 25th - Wednesday 27th June 2012
Lancaster University Management School
Over the last three years the Catchment Change Network (CCN) has organised a programme of workshops and meetings to discuss and develop guidelines for incorporating risk and uncertainty into the management of catchment change in the areas of flood risk, water scarcity and diffuse pollution. This final international conference will present the progress that has been made in that time in both the CCN and other projects. A particular focus will be on the research needs in both modelling the impacts of change at scales of implementation and on stakeholder involvement in the management process. Keynote speakers include Eric Wood (Princeton), Jay Famiglietti (UC Irvine), Thorsten Wagener (Penn State and Bristol), with others still to be confirmed.