Sustainable Uplands workshop
We were pleased to welcome colleagues Prof Robin Pakeman and Dr Stuart Smith from the James Hutton Institute for a focused workshop at the Botanic Gardens to discuss the science and logistics of long-term experiments and monitoring.
JHI has a sizeable network of such long-term studies and we had a very thought-provoking discussion about how our expertise at St Andrews could contribute to that effort within the realities of the UK/EU funding landscape. Thanks to Dr Lydia Cole for organising this event.
In other news, our involvement with the Corrour Estate is firming up, with recruitment ongoing for two new fully-funded, interdisciplinary PhD projects under the NETGAIN DFA, due to start later this year. Both projects – on ‘Bundling Benefits from Peatlands’ (PI Cole) and ‘Surveillance of the Environment’ (PI Lawson) – reflect the kind of critical approach to sustainability, integrating social science/humanities perspectives into sustainability research, that StACCS exists to serve.