📰 Staff Newsletter 7th March 2024
- Annabel Jackson (Deactivated)
- Chloe Mitchell (Deactivated)
Created by Annabel Jackson (Deactivated)
Important Information
Funding Announcement: University Internally-distributed Funding (IDF) Spring Call 2024 - NOW OPEN
The Spring 2024 Call for internally-distributed funding applications is now open. The call was launched on 4th March 2024, and funding is available across a wide range of disciplines - full details are available on the website.
Please note the deadline for applications is now 11pm on Tuesday 9 April 2024.
A schedule of future calls is available on the Internally-distributed Funding webpage.
If you have any questions please email re-internal-funding-team@york.ac.uk.
First edition of the Sciences Faculty Education Newsletter
Click here to read the very first edition of the Sciences Faculty Education newsletter - February 2024 edition.
Departmental Events
Cultural Potluck lunch TODAY, celebrating International Women’s Day!
After such a successful IWD seminar earlier this week, we are now looking forward to continuing our celebrations with a cultural potluck lunch TODAY, on International Women's Day!
Click here to sign up for our International Potluck lunch today between 12pm and 2pm in the Environment building’s foyer! Please join us and bring something delicious, either sweet or savoury, that represents you/your culture!
We would love to see as many dishes as possible but if providing a dish/drink is an obstacle for you, please still feel free to attend - we would love to see everyone there!
Please note that it is super important that you place a sign/label in front of your dish/drink on the day stating the following:
Who made the dish / drink
Any history / fun facts behind the dish / drink (we aim to celebrate all cultures!)
Ingredients
Vegan / vegetarian / gluten-free / allergens (these are typically cow's milk, eggs, peanuts, other nuts, wheat, fish, shellfish, sesame)
Please try to be as environmentally friendly as possible by bringing along your own cups etc if you can.
Even if you are only able to come to a small part of the event, we hope to see you all there!
Happy cooking/baking!
Thank you to all those that came along to our Talk on Tuesday to celebrate International Women’s Day - “Beyond the Norm: Narratives of Academic Achievement Amidst Challenges” Click here to watch the recording of this inspiring event. Passcode: =nr73BGt
DEG Seminar
Date / Time: Tuesday 12th March at 12:05
Location: Zoom - Zoom link
Speaker: Peter Wynn
Title
Sulphur cycling within karst and speleothems
Peter Wynn is a Reader in Physical Geography and the Director of Natural Sciences at the University of Lancaster. His research in the field of isotope geoscience falls into two distinct categories of interest: 1. Archives of palaeoclimate and environmental change from speleothem records; 2. Biogeochemical cycling in glaciers. In his talk, Peter will discuss sulphur cycling within karst and speleothems. He will explore the use of speleothems (cave stalagmites and stalactites) as regional archives of sulphur pollution, and how this might serve as a potential marker for the Anthropocene. This seminar will address the whole research journey devoted to extracting and interpreting the sulphur signals contained within the speleothem palaeorecord, as well as highlighting future research avenues within the field.
SUBLIM Conference
The Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York is excited to host our annual Sustainable Business, Leadership, Innovation, and Management (SuBLIM) Sustainability Conference, "Transformational Change in Uncertain Times", on 1-2nd July 2024 at The Guildhall York. In a turbulent era of confounding poly-crises, business as usual is no longer economically viable - and transformative change is urgently needed. Innovation is at the heart of this transformational change, with industry, policy, and change makers playing vital roles in fostering a regenerative future.
Please follow this link to our website to find the call for abstracts and expression of interest form - to be completed by 31st March. We encourage submissions from postgraduate students and early career researchers from all sustainability-related disciplines. Attendees can expect interactive and thought provoking discussions, practical workshops, and community building. We particularly encourage solution-oriented research on...
Sustainable business practices across industries and organisation types
Just and inclusive forms of alternative economies
Social and environmental dimensions of sustainable business
For further information, please contact the SUBLIM Sustainability Conference Team: environment-sustainability-conference@york.ac.uk
Job Opportunity
FAO Qualitative researchers interested in urban coastal adaptation to estuarine flood risk, multi-level governance who may be interested in exploring aspects of resilience, adaptation governance and implementation.
Coastal/Urban climate Change Adaptation Governance Postdoctoral position (2 years, 9 months duration). Ideally for human geographers, social scientists including law who are keen to work as part of an interdisciplinary team on transformative governance and adaptation implementation in Scotland. Part of an interdisciplinary NERC Strategic Programme ‘Gallant’ so excellent career development opportunities. Deadline: 14th March. Advert is here.
Note: this has a short advert cycle so we can try to maximise available project length to give the candidates as long a contract as possible!
BAME PhDs: The University has a great scheme for UK BAME students, and Geography’ competition is open until 15th March 2024 this year. We’d be delighted to receive applications.
Good News and Media Engagement
Quinn Chen, a PhD student who recently joined our department, has made a documentary with an UG English Literature student called 'A Life Unfolding' - it takes place on the Millennium Bridge, in York. It won First Prize at the annual Scott Award 2023 (run by the university), as well as the most liked by the public prize. Congratulations! Click here to watch “A Life Unfolding” on Youtube.
Congratulations to Lindsay Stringer and Andy Dougill, both of whom are coauthors on a paper published with colleagues based at the University of Namibia: Nakwaya-Jacobus D, Hipondoka M, Angombe S, Stringer LC, Dougill AJ. 2024. Good governance quality in Namibia’s EIA process. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. Click here to read!
Josh Kirshner has an article out in the journal Space and Polity, co-authored with a colleague in human geography and spatial planning at Utrecht University. The full reference: Smith S and Kirshner J. 2024. When logics collide: Uncovering the multiple gas exportation and importation transitions in Mozambique. Space and Polity, 1-22. Click here to read! Josh was also invited to join the editorial board of a newly launched journal, Journal of Urban and Territorial Studies, with the Institute of Bolivian Urbanism (Instituto Boliviano de Urbanismo). Well done, Josh!
Simon Mair has had a policy paper "Language, Climate Change, and Cities Beyond Capitalism" published in the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy.
The team won £8,427 from the UoY L&T Fund. The project is entitled "Levelling the field? An exploration into the support and feasibility of implementing Equality Impact Assessments for fieldtrips." It builds on our DEG award last year and the sustainable and inclusive fieldtrip framework developed by Adrian. It is designed to explore the suitability of EIAs to strengthen EDI fieldtrip planning (including identification of barriers and solutions) and the drafting of a prospective governance process for EIA adoption in the department and wider institution. It will involve working with three student partners in a workshop led by Tectre, a diversity training, recruitment and consultancy specialist organisation who facilitate the development of a co-created EIA. Well done to all of the team - Adrian Gonzalez, Karen Parkhill, Daryl Stump and Michelle Barton.
Research Opportunities and Updates
Enhancing Research Culture Team - Why every lab needs a handbook
The next session of our Enhancing Research Culture project is coming up on Wednesday 20th March, 12-2.30pm (B/T/019) and it’s centred around lab handbooks.
A lab handbook is a flexible document created by all members of a lab that outlines the ethos of a research group. It can summarise the different roles within the lab, give an overview of the culture the lab would like to create, describe how the lab supports development of its members and is therefore a potentially powerful tool to create team equity.
We have invited a range of fantastic speakers across humanities and sciences that have created handbooks for their labs or larger projects. They will share thoughts and discussions that went into creating them.
Speakers in this session include: Prof Stuart Murray (School of English, University of Leeds) and Faye Robinson (Head of Research Development, Leeds) who are leading the Wellcome funded Medical Humanities Project LivingBodiesObjects. As well as Dr Stuart Higgins (School of PET, York), Dr Chris McDonald (Biology, York) and Prof David Kent (Biology, York). You can find out more about our speakers on the speaker profile document.
We’d love to invite attendees across all disciplines and career paths (academics, students, technicians, postdocs, professional services) and use this workshop as a starting point to create and share good practice across York. There will be opportunities to discuss and exchange ideas during a Q&A session and lunch.
If you would like to attend please sign up via this google form. We can then order the right amount of lunch. Hot drinks will be provided at the start of the session, please bring your own cup. Please sign up quickly if you would like to attend in-person due to limited room capacity.
If you are unable to attend in-person, we plan to live stream the talks and Q&A panel on the day and also have a recording to share after the session. Please indicate in the google form if your preference is to attend in-person or via live-stream. We will also send you a calendar invite.
Funding Announcement: University Internally-distributed Funding (IDF) Spring Call 2024 - NOW OPEN
The Spring 2024 Call for internally-distributed funding applications is now open. The call was launched on 4th March 2024, and funding is available across a wide range of disciplines - full details are available on the website. Please note the deadline for applications is now 11pm on Tuesday 9 April 2024. A schedule of future calls is available on the Internally-distributed Funding webpage. If you have any questions please email re-internal-funding-team@york.ac.uk.
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