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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 […]
A scale perspective on the urban nexus
Liz Varga from Cranfield University, UK, spoke on A scale perspective on the ‘urban nexus’: the integration of different scales of infrastructure system at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Infrastructure systems have unique design characteristics that often lead to inertia and constrained future innovation. Is there potential for new forms […]
Governance innovations for the urban nexus – call for abstracts
Ralitsa Hiteva from SPRU at the University of Sussex and Chiara Farné Fratini from Aalborg University are running a session on ‘Governance innovations for the urban nexus ‘ at the Royal Geographical Society ‘Nexus thinking‘ Conference on 30 August – 2 September 2016, London. Governing the water-energy-food-environment nexus calls for innovative approaches, which empower governing […]
Spending review implications
In his role as chair of the Campaign for Social Science, Professor James Wilsdon airs his views, alongside others from academia and science organisations, on this week’s spending review in the guardian post What does the spending review mean for science and innovation? published Wed 25 Nov 2015. James questions what will be in the […]