Networking event on sustainability and sustainable research practices
If we as researchers want to contribute to building a more sustainable future, then we need to be able to share ideas and learn from colleagues around the globe. But, if travelling to conferences and meetings still usually means big carbon emissions, how can we network effectively and sustainably?
Join us at 13.30–15.00 GMT on Thursday 28 March 2024 to explore an alternative approach using Gather, a promising online platform for research networking. Design an avatar, explore a virtual conference centre, and mingle with like-minded early career researchers from St Andrews, Bonn, and our partner universities.
Theme
We invite you to share your examples of the research you do on sustainability (defined very broadly: environmental change, social inequalities, political ecology, new technologies, …).
Contributions from any discipline are welcome – there are always exciting connections waiting to be made between specialisms.
We are particularly keen to share experience of ‘careful’, responsible research methods. For example:
- How are you trying to avoid extractive or colonial practices?
- Are you co-producing your research with stakeholders?
- Have you found a way to cut the environmental impact of your project?
- Are you thinking about how your research will be used beyond academia?
To set the mood, there’s a nice example here about 19th century research which helped us to reflect on our own research practices today… And to appreciate that change is happening!
How to take part
Places are free but limited in number, on a first-come-first-served basis; please sign up on EventBrite.
Please email us a digital artifact of your work (i.e. a picture, poster, video, or link to a website) in advance so that you have something to ‘show and tell’. You don’t need to make anything new (unless you want to) – just share what you already have to hand. You’ll find instructions on the EventBrite page.
This project is led by StACCS and funded by a Scottish Government exchange grant.
Any questions? Please email us at [email protected].