Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Club
The ESRC is now a funding partner in the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Club (SARIC), a joint BBSRC, NERC and ESRC initiative to support research on the efficiency, productivity and sustainability of the UK crop and livestock sectors. call for research proposals The call opens on 29 June 2015 and closes on 16 September […]
Nexus2020 Storify from the 5 June twitter chat
The Nexus2020 twitter chat on 5 June 2015 gained alot of attention and generated a stream of discussion between our 5 panelists and participants from around the world, on Nexus2020: the most important questions for business. Nexus2020 asks ‘What are the most important questions around business practice that, if answered, could help companies manage their […]
Join #Nexus2020 twitter chat 5 June 2015
What are the most important questions around business practice that, if answered, could help companies manage their dependencies and impacts upon food, energy, water and the environment? What? Twitter chat #Nexus2020 When? 5 June 2015. 10 am EST/ 3pm BST. What it’s about: The aim of the session is to get your questions stimulated by […]
Local Nexus: how do decentralised energy and water interact with localised food?
A new project led by the University of Oxford, investigates the ‘Local Nexus‘ – how decentralised energy and water supply systems interact with more localised food systems. The project focuses on the development of local nexuses of food manufacturing and energy and water supply, which may provide opportunities for rationally customising resource utilisation, production, and […]
Call for Virtual Agricultural Nitrogen Centres: with Brazil, China and India
UK research councils BBSRC and NERC plus partners in Brazil, China and India, are delighted to announce a Newton Fund call for Virtual Joint Centres in Agricultural Nitrogen. Applications are invited to enable research activities between the UK and one of Brazil, China or India for up to three years in duration. The aim of […]
Join the Nexus2020 webinar 11 June 2015
Join us for the ‘Nexus2020: the most important questions for business’ webinar on Thurs 11 June 2015. To make sure people from across the globe can join, the webinar will be held live at 10am (BST) and again at 4pm (BST). join the webinar At the webinar we will introduce the concept of Nexus2020 and […]
UK-Brazil Nexus collaboration – proposals invited
Proposals are invited for collaborative projects between the UK and Brazil which contribute to the economic development and welfare of Brazil within either the area of the Social Science of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus and Healthy Urban Living. These calls form part of the Newton Fund commitment to develop bilateral research partnerships and enhance the global […]
Support for research students to attend Methods workshop
Update 11 May – applications for support have now closed and successful applicants will be notified shortly. – We are pleased to announce that the Nexus Network is able to offer support to 3 research students/ early career researchers who would like to attend the ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities‘ workshop; to cover UK […]
Nexus Network thinkpiece: Imagining a sewerless society
We are pleased to publish the Nexus Network thinkpiece ‘Imagining a sewerless society’ by Ben Martin, Peter Cruddas, Paul Hutchings from Cranfield University. Here is an overview of the topics, taken from the thinkpiece: What’s wrong with Conventional sewers? Conventional sewer systems have a heavy impact across the nexus of water, energy, food and the […]
Services and Slums thinkpiece published
We are pleased to publish the Nexus Network thinkpiece ‘Services and Slums: rethinking infrastructures and provisioning across the nexus’ by Tatiana Thieme and Eszter Kovacs, from the University of Cambridge. Here is an overview of the topics, taken from the thinkpiece: Growth of slums The second wave of urbanisation taking place in the Global South […]