Good News and Media Engagement

Naomi Holmes is co-author of a paper titled 'Post-little ice age glacial geomorphology of contrasting topographic settings at Skálafellsjökull, southeast Iceland' led by Sheffield Hallam PhD student Sarah Walton, published in Journal of Maps. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Elaine Azzopardi whose paper published in People and Nature last year is within the top ten most downloaded of the journal! The full paper is entitled ‘What are heritage values? Integrating natural and cultural heritage into environmental valuation.'

Andy Dougill is a co-author on a review paper with authors linked to the ARUA Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Food Systems on 'Reorienting research investments toward under-researched crops for sustainable food systems'

Josh Kirshner gave a departmental seminar in the Sociology Department at UoY this week. The talk was titled 'Corridors as empty signifiers: the entanglement of Mozambique’s colonial past and present in its development corridors,' and was based on a recent paper on the topic.

Congratulations to Lindsay Stringer who is a co-author on a new paper published in PLOS One: Akhtar-Schuster M, Stringer LC, Barger N 2024. Fast-tracking action on the Sustainable Development Goals by enhancing national institutional arrangements.

Mark Hodson and colleagues have been awarded a 2 year research grant from the Leverhulme Trust that will pay for a two year PDRA at York and 1 year PDRAs at Leeds and Liverpool to investigate the impacts of increased rates of flooding on earthworm diversity. More specifically they will investigate soil water cotents at which earthworms start to avoid soil and inter-species and -population differences between earthworms and earthworm cocoons in tolerance of oxygen depletion in soil due to flooding. Outputs should include earthworm hazard maps due to climate change-related increased rates of flooding around the UK.

On 26 February, Sam Buckton and Ioan Fazey held a meeting with Colin Nott (Namibia Resource Consultants) to offer advice for a 'national regenerative program' for the three main farmers' unions in Namibia (to which Colin is technical advisor) to support a transition to regenerative agriculture in the country. Colin requested advice after reading the paper on regenerative systems by Sam and colleagues.

On 20 March, Sam Buckton gave an invited talk to the Complex Systems, Big Data and Informatics Initiative research centre at Lincoln University (New Zealand) about his research on regenerative social-ecological systems.

On 20th March, Felicia Liu gave a guest lecture at The Bartlett School of Planning on green FinTech and stewarding sustainable transitions of data centre infrastructures.

Naomi Holmes has been awarded funding by the RGS (with IBG) Ray Y Gildea Jr Award for the project 'Building inclusivity and accessibility into your fieldwork'. The project team comprises: Georgia Ramsay (UoY Education), Lynda Yorke (Bangor University) and Chloe Searle (Independent Field Studies Tutor).