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Building capacity for transdisciplinary research – what do the funders need to know?
In this post, Ola Michalec and Cian O’Donovan reflect on the final stage of the Nexus Network project – mapping capabilities and capacities for transdisciplinary research. Between 2014 and 2018, the Nexus Network funded multiple initiatives exploring the intersections between the food, water, energy and environmental domains of the sustainability challenges. Starting with funded think-pieces […]
Democratizing public health and urban sustainability: how can nexus framings be useful?
In this post, Saurabh Arora (SPRU, University of Sussex, UK) and Leandro Giatti (SPH, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) consider how nexus framings can contribute to research on public health and urban sustainability for addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, arguing that careful consideration be given to the complexity of cross-sectoral connections between health, food, […]
Improving Organic Resource Use in Rural Ethiopia (IPORE): Final Report
In 2016, The Nexus Network awarded a research partnership grant to five different projects aimed at improving understanding of the interactions between food–energy–water–environment and to support actions to improve their sustainability. The partnerships enabled researchers to build interdisciplinary research collaboration in locations across both the UK and Africa. Among these, the IPORE project (Improving Organic Resource Use […]
Reshaping the Domestic Nexus: final reports
The Reshaping the Domestic Nexus project brought new evidence and understandings of household practices to the attention of key policy partners, to inform intervention to reshape consumption of resources within the nexus of water-energy-food. From initial design of the proposed project to delivery of final reports, the project has been undertaken in collaboration with: Department […]
Nexus Shocks Fellowship: exploring the findings
Informing decision-making and resilience to nexus shocks: Exploring the findings from the Nexus Shocks Fellowship Dr Candice Howarth Background to the project The Nexus Shocks project explored how to improve decision-making and resilience related to nexus shocks. The work consisted of two phases and was funded in 2015 by the UK’s Economic and Social Research […]
Nexus Brexit: final report
Awarded a Nexus Network networking grant in April 2015, the Nexus Brexit project led by Dr Guy Ziv, University of Leeds, has been focusing on the consequences that Brexit could have on UK water-food-energy systems and the natural environment. Following the decision taken by the UK public in June 2016 to leave the EU, the team used the data […]
Nexus and beyond: 3 things that matter for transformative change
Bipashyee Ghosh, a doctoral student at SPRU attended the Nexus Network workshop on ‘Transforming Innovation: addressing nexus challenges with radical change’ on 17th March 2017. Here she shares her thoughts from the day, arguing that transformation towards sustainability at the nexus requires attention be paid to transdisciplinary knowledge; appreciation of plurality and diversity; and experimentation […]
Sustainability in Turbulent Times Report Launch
We are very excited to announce the publication of the final report from the Nexus Network “Sustainability in Turbulent Times” which we are launching to a capacity crowd at our conference today in London. Since its launch in June 2014, the Nexus Network has worked to support transdisciplinary research at the food-water-energy-environment nexus, and to […]
Nexus POSTnote now available
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has released a Nexus POSTnote for parliamentarians. The POSTnote summarises understandings of the interactions between water, energy and food production and examines how nexus approaches can be used to inform policy decisions. Key points include A nexus assessment seeks to describe the interactions of water, food, energy, environmental […]
What is the role of a researcher-activist?
Anni Beukes from Stellenbosch University offers her reflections on the role of a ‘researcher-activist’, together with local communities, in re-thinking, remaking and re-inventing the possibilities for just and equitable locally specific and adaptive technologies for the provision of food, water and energy. Anni draws from her experience of working with communities federated to SDI in […]
