In May 2019 Dr Eleanor Wilkinson and Dr Iliana Ortega–Alcázar ran a policy event at the House of Commons, to launch their new report, Housing benefit and age discrimination: Young women living in shared accommodation in the private rental sector. https://www.youngwomenstrust.org/housing_benefit_age_discrimination The report is based on ESRC funded research, and was produced in …
In September, 17 Russian scientists travelled to Southampton to join UK scientists in a workshop on studying long-term environmental change in Siberia and the Russian Far East. This large northern land mass is warming fast, and its responses to warming are of interest to both the scientific community and national …
BRECcIA (http://www.gcrf-breccia.com/) held its first Summer School in July in two villages in Malawi – Chinsamba and Chankhuntha – both close to Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. It brought together early career researchers (mainly PhD students and post-docs) from the wide range of disciplines and institutions within BRECcIA to provide experiential interdisciplinary training …
Professor Tony Brown, Dr Dan Fallu, Dr Ben Pears, GeoData Tromsø Museum, (Arctic University of Norway), University of Southampton, University of York, University of Padua, University of Salzburg, University of Barcelona, University of Leuven, ARS Ltd. This ERC Advanced Grant funded Project seeks over the next 4-5 years to establish …
The Ground Based Observations for Validation (GBOV) project, was initiated by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and provides multiple years of high quality in-situ datasets for the direct validation of seven of the Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) global bio-geophysical products. A team from Geography and Environmental Science …
Dr Dianna Smith led an ESRC Impact Acceleration Award funded project to co-develop a website that can support mapping of community assets and population data by local government, charities and NGOs. The website was created by members of GeoData with development input from Southampton City Council and Sustain. The new …
INQUA 2019 – The International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Conference is held once every four years and gathers together scientists from all over the globe to present, debate and refine our understanding of global systems over the Quaternary period (< 2.6 million years). This year the conference was jointly …
Agriculture contributes about 25% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and engages 70% of the labour force in rural areas of Kenya. The sector is dominated by small to medium farmers who rely on seasonal rainfall, which makes them vulnerable to negative impacts of climate change. As a result of …
Professor Tony Brown, Dr Thierry Fonville, Dr Ben Pears University of Southampton, Tromsø Museum, UiT, University of Newcastle, Queen’s University Belfast In conjunction with: Historic Scotland, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Department for Communities The AHRC funded Sea of Moyle Project aims to determine the relationships between …
