Important Information 

IMPORTANT: Changes within PS management

As you will be aware, there are several upcoming changes to our PS teams due to VS. As well as these changes, there are a few others to clarify. Further to the below, please only use the generic email addresses, to make sure things are picked up in the right place. Please also understand that issues will be prioritised, which means your issue may not get picked up in a timely manner. Where possible, please use resources such as the University webpages and the wiki to find answers to your questions.

Please read the below carefully:

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations - now Head of Faculty Operations

The DHFO role has had a name change to Head of Faculty Operations. Lucy has now ended her secondment, and we welcome back Matthew to this role. Matthew will now be looking after both DEG and Chemistry - this is a big portfolio and will take some adjustment. For now, please only contact Matthew at the DHFO email address, for urgent or escalated issues only. Please also note that expense claims may take longer to be approved - please make sure expense claims are submitted in a timely manner, as claims submitted after 2 months run the risk of not being approved in time.

Email address: environment-dhfo@york.ac.uk

Student Services Manager

Unfortunately we are losing both of our Student Services Managers - huge thank you to both Jackie and Michelle for everything they have done for us. Alison Edmonds, who is currently the Student Services Manager for Chemistry, will be looking after both DEG and Chemistry going forward. In the first instance, please check the generic email list to see which area your enquiry is best sent to (i.e. UG/PGT/Assessment) - the Student Services Manager email should be used for escalation or management enquiries.

Email address: environment-studentservicemanager@york.ac.uk

Admin Manager

Lucy has now ended her secondment as DHFO and has returned to the Admin Manager post; we also still have Victoria working with us until 21st September. A huge thank you to Victoria for being a fantastic Admin Manager for the last year. Lucy will be Admin Manager for both DEG and Chemistry going forward. As with the above, please make sure you are only emailing non-personal accounts. 

Email address: environment-hr@york.ac.uk

Dept Staff Monthly Meeting - Sept (Recording / Slides)

• Click here to watch the Dept Staff Monthly Meeting - Sept recording (passcode: q2bk582&)

• John Wilkinson - Google slides on his successful NERC project and tips for creating a competitive bid. To enter the next round of NERC Pushing the Frontiers call, please complete this 2 page pro-forma and submit it via the Demand Management Google Form by 11 Oct. Please send any queries to Robyn.Inglis@york.ac.uk.
  
  
  

Booking ENV/031 Boardroom

Our Boardroom has moved on Planon Room Booking so that it now shows under “All Bookable Rooms” (where it was previously under “Departmental Rooms”). It can still only be booked by DEG staff members and is not open to the wider university to book. 

Offer of accomm during the week in York

Good afternoon. I am a retired university teacher living in Fishergate. I am writing to see if there are admin or academic staff who need to be in York 2-4 days a week but live elsewhere and are looking for comfortable accommodation when they are here. Briefly, there is a bed sitting + bathroom at the top of the house. Money to be discussed. I am often away myself as still do some work in Manchester.

William Roche - wlroche@hotmail.com 

Events

DEG Seminars 24/25 - First one on Tues!

The details of the first seminar of 24/25 are as follows:

• Date: Tuesday 1st October at 12pm

• Location: ENV/005 

• Speaker: David Rippin (York)

• Seminar title: 'Monitoring and Assessment of Greenlandic Ice-Contact Lakes

Please come along in-person if you can. If you can't, then you can also join the seminar via this Zoom link.

York Climate Connect news

Calling all environmental enthusiasts based near York! Comedy vs Climate Change is bringing *free* climate comedy workshops to York this October. Partnering with the Ryevitalise Landscape Partnership Scheme, we have developed interactive workshops intended to raise awareness about specific issues facing rivers in North Yorkshire, whilst also teaching comedic techniques.

• Saturday 5th/12th October – 2-5pm: Introduction to stand-up and joke writing. This workshop teaches the basics of putting together a good stand-up set, including theory on joke writing.

•  Sunday 6th/13th October – 10am-1pm: Introduction to improv and character comedy This workshop teaches improv techniques for devising strong characters and perspectives.

 All workshops are being held at York’s Theatre@41, and the booking links are located here.

• You'll find the full York Climate Connect schedule here and the dedicated York Environment Week website with the full listing here.

Good News 

• Anna Gilbert was a panellist at City Screen PictureHouse for the screening of X Trillion, a documentary about an all-women crew sailing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to investigate the plastic pollution crisis.

• Ed Garrett is a coauthor on a paper assessing the heritage value of palaeoseismic sites in Chile, published in the journal Geoheritage.

• Rebecca Newman represented FixOurFood in a Sustainability Symposium at The Principal Hotel in York to support the revision of the route to a carbon-negative strategy for the York and North Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, attended by Mayor David Skaith.

• The Three Horizons framework, developed byIoan Fazey and others, is being used by the UK Government's Policy Lab in much of its work in supporting Government with innovative policymaking, including in the board game 'Systemic' designed to support systems change thinking in policymaking. The list of organisations around the world using Three Horizons continues to grow (e.g. see Future Stewards' Three Horizons Practice Network and Impact Amplified's Three Horizons Use Examples Library), and includes organisations such as the UNDP, UNICEF, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Natural Resources Wales, Chatham House, Unilever, Volans, Systemiq, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the International Futures Forum, Leaders' Quest, and Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Sustainability Transitions, to name but a few.

• Wernick collaborates with the University of York for internship opportunities.

Research Opportunities 

Postdoc position at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire

This is an exciting postdoctoral opportunity in a UKRI funded project supported by a UK wide land use net zero programme. It would suit someone with experience of social science concepts and methods in agricultural contexts and an understanding /interest in net zero in land use. Click here to view details of the post doc position. 

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