Research
NEXUS 2020
Over a number of months, the Nexus2020 project convened senior business people and leading researchers to identify the most important questions facing companies as they try to manage impacts and dependencies on food, energy, water and the environment.
Think-pieces
The Nexus Network funded twelve micro-awards of up to £5,000 for individuals and teams to produce think-pieces that scoped and defined nexus challenges and opportunities. The think-pieces confront various issues relating to the governance of the nexus, including: energy, food and water security in West Africa; impact investing; fast-moving circular goods; citizen science and imagining a sewerless society.Networking grants
The Nexus Network granted six teams each up to £20,000 to support the developmentof networks and co-design nexus research agendas. The grants enable researchers to build meaningful interdisciplinary research collaboration networks and to establish connections with relevant stakeholders (from civil society, policy and business communities), engaging them as knowledge partners in the co-design of research proposals on nexus topics.Partnership grants
In 2016, The Nexus Network granted five awards of between £50,000 and £150,000 to support pilot research projects to build interdisciplinary research collaboration in locations across the UK and Africa.Fellowships
Two nexus fellowships were awarded to outstanding early career researchers.
defra Fellowship
Dr Anna Krzywoszynska was awarded the Nexus Network-Defra Fellowship. The aim of the fellowship was to explore Nexus issues at the interface between research and policy.
Nexus Shocks FellowSHIP
The Nexus Network Nexus Shocks Fellowship was awarded to Dr Candice Howarth from the University of Surrey. The aim fo this fellowship was to explore the extent to which nexus thinking could increase resilience to shocks to the nexus and the role of the social sciences and nexus thinking in informing resilience.
Photo competition
What do the links between food, energy, water and the environment mean to you? This was the question we asked in our October 2015 Nexus Network photo competition as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. We wanted to see how food, energy, water and the environment connect with people’s everyday lives, at home, at leisure, at work, travelling … anywhere!
