Jenny Pollard has been nominated and shortlisted for the Great Service Award in the GSA Awards 2024! This award goes to either a support staff member or team from the University who has provided excellent day to day service to postgraduate students, ensuring that student’s time at York is made as easy and enjoyable as possible. Congratulations, Jenny

Oliver Wilson spent a week in southern Brazil, hosted by Unochapecó (Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó). The visit included three talks to staff and students, a meeting with a representative of FUNAI (the Brazilian government's Indigenous people's agency), and visits to three Indigenous communities to discuss potentially participating in collaborative research and knowledge exchange projects with York, Unochapecó, and other UK/Brazilian partners.

Anika Haque was interviewed by the ITV news on the impact of climate change on the grass root sports in the UK, which was telecast on the 19th June 2024.

On Tuesday 3rd June, Laura Chapman was involved with the first Science outreach group run by The Place. The Place aims to support local school children from areas with low progression to higher education and raise aspirations. 75 Year 6 students were involved in this first week, with activities across the university and other partner educational insititutions. The students undertook a hedgerow survey on Walmgate Stray to enable them to understand the ecological value of hedgerows and the importance of conserving them. Despite some challenges (mostly associated with the "gross value" of slugs and fear of spiders), the students engaged fantastically well and undertook the surveys just as well as our undergraduates. If anyone is interested in getting involved with The Place, please do contact Laura.

As part of its Masterplan, the National Railway Museum is currently developing a new flagship gallery titled the Railway Futures: the Porterbrook Gallery, which will examine the future of the world's railways. Students from Environment and Geography and the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past recently participated in an exciting five week youth panel to help develop the gallery's key concept. The Museum's Interpretation Manager (Masterplan), Lorna Hogger and Lead Curator (Railway Futures Gallery), Rob Scargill led the sessions and were thrilled with the students' input saying "the ideas generated in these last five weeks, particularly those presented and discussed in a final group session, will transform the gallery from an educational space into something interactive, engaging and empowering.”

Sohail Ahmad presented a paper on "The efficiency of cities in using land: A comparison of Africa and Asia" at the What Works Climate Solutions Summit, June 9-12 2024 TU Berlin, Germany.

On 20th June, Christopher Lyon gave an evening talk on the meaning of cliimate projections beyond 2100 for and adaptation at the Otley Science Café as part of the Otley Science Festival at the Otley Courthouse Arts Centre.