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Methods workshop storify
The Storify brings together all the online discussions and ideas from the #transdisciplinaryworkshop held on 29 and 30 June in Sussex. Image credit: participants in the workshop by Nathan Oxley, Impact, Communications and Engagement Officer, from the STEPS centre. [View the story “Transdisciplinary methods workshop” on Storify] Tweet Follow @uk_nexus
Sustainable use of organic resources for bioenergy, food and water
A Nexus Network thinkpiece has provided the basis for a research paper ‘Sustainable use of organic resources for bioenergy, food and water provision in rural Sub-Saharan Africa’ published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 50, October 2015, Pages 903–917. You can read the full paper on the journal website. The paper reviews […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Submit a question to Nexus2020
We are now officially at 206 questions submitted to Nexus2020, but we still have room for more. Nexus2020 asks ‘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?’ At the Natural Bridge workshop last week participants were […]
