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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, […]
Sustainable and healthy food – views from the city of Brighton and Hove
The Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop was held on 12 and 13 May 2016 at the University of Sussex. Around 60 people were involved and took stock of what kind of plural understandings of ‘urban nexuses’ are emerging, produced by (partnerships between) activists, communities, think tanks, corporations, and multilateral organizations, natural scientists, humanities scholars and […]
The hidden voices of nexus struggles
In our series of guest blogs from the Nexus Network Annual Conference on 19 November 2015, we are pleased to publish this post from conference participant Rachael Taylor. Rachael is a Doctoral researcher at SPRU, the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. The blog is Rachael’s overview of the ‘Nexus struggles: agricultural […]
