2011
Events related to the Research Institute from 2011:
November
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Cardiff University Sustainability Week Debate
‘Does size matter?’
Date: Wednesday 2nd November 2010
Time: 6pm drinks reception for a 6.30pm start
Hosted by the University’s Sustainable Places Research Institute, the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, John Griffiths AM will open the debate on what impact a small nation such as Wales can have on sustainability in a global context, and what can individuals do to make a difference?
October
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Workshop series: Developing Place-Based Communities of Learning
Cardiff University’s Sustainable Places Research Institute (PLACE) and the
University Graduate College are organising a series of workshops to form
the basis of a new approach to the development of academic research. We
want to gather knowledge and views on issues of concern to people in their
local area and help to guide the future direction of a research agenda
linked to that place. And we want you to be involved.
The workshops will involve a mixture of short presentations from invited
speakers and extended round table discussions. We hope that this mix will
allow participants the time and resources to:
- Consider an issue in depth, including costs, benefits and long-term consequences.
- Discuss issues with other participants, and give an insight into other perspectives, allowing their own views to be developed and challenged.
- Build and improve relationships between participants.
- Give participants new knowledge and skills.
Further information
Timetable and Outline [232 KB]
For more information on how to get involved contact:
Leanne Cullen-Unsworth: Cullen-UnsworthLC@cardiff.ac.uk
Alex Franklin: FranklinA1@cardiff.ac.uk
Or telephone: 02920 879271
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5th October 2011
Sustainable Places Research Institute Research Seminar:
Local governance for sustainable well being: an insider’s reflection on community planning and strategic risk management in Welsh local government.
Speaker: Stephen Williams, Honorary Research Fellow with Sustainable Places Research Institute
Location: Room 1.65, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University
More information
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Monday 24th October 2011
, 2 - 3.30pm
Seminar: Culture, Intangibles and Metrics in Environmental Management
Location: Seminar Room, ground floor, 51a Park Place
Professor Terre Satterfield, Director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and Professor of risk, culture and environment at UBC Vancouver is visiting the Understanding Risk Group at Cardiff University.
During the visit she will present a seminar entitled "Culture, Intangibles
and Metrics in Environmental Management".
The talk brings together her longstanding ideas about cultural values, and new work on how to 'measure' nonmaterial aspects of cultural life that matter to environmental management, also bringing in earlier narrative work as applied to recent cases, including the Enbridge pipeline dispute across North America.
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26th October 2011
Workshop series: Developing Place-Based Communities of Learning
Workshop number 3: Transforming workless communities into learning communities as a strategy for tackling poverty and social exclusion – the challenges for educators, policy makers and potential learners.
12 – 4pm
Room 1.65, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff UniversitySpeaker: Dr Rob Cornwall
Chair: Dr Martin O’NeillAn extended workshop where Dr Rob Cornwall will talk about his experiences of the links between employment and the community from the 1970s through to the present day. He will talk about what he sees as the challenges for the future and discuss how these might be addressed, particularly through communities and the University working together.
Updated agenda now available:
For catering and room allocation purposes, anyone who would like to attend will need to email slowns@cf.ac.uk to reserve a place.
Biographies:
Dr Robert Cornwall, Dissemination Officer, 3Gs Development Trust, was born and brought up in Penywaun, Cynon Valley. His interest in mental health and well being spans four domains:
- As a senior manager in the public sector leading a cultural change programme focused on changing staff attitudes and behaviours (as opposed to re-engineering the organisation)- With 34 years experience of tackling unemployment – including responsibility for redundancy handling during the colliery closure programme in the Gwent and Glamorgan Valleys.
- Lead Officer of the Gurnos, Galon Uchaf and Penydarren community regeneration strategy - working to address the root causes of poverty and health inequalities (as opposed to reducing the numbers who are economically inactive).
- And as a researcher undertaking two relevant programmes of research (MPhil. University of Wales Swansea 1999 and PhD Cardiff University 2007).
Dr Martin O’Neill spent the earliest and some of the happiest years of his childhood growing up on the Gurnos Estate in Merthy Tydfil, which today is one of the most stigmatised areas of Wales and poorest areas of Europe. He left school at sixteen with few qualifications and the feeling that education was not for people like him. In his early twenties he left Merthyr and there then followed a varied career during which he worked as a bus conductor, lorry driver, in a night club and also experienced a long period of unemployment.
Dr O’Neill returned to Wales in 1989 and while working for the ambulance service started to study after his shifts. After a bout of illness made it difficult for him to continue his ambulance service career he was encouraged by one of his tutors, a former miner, to consider university.
A number of years later Martin had a degree in anthropology and sociology and a Ph.D. Going through this experience gave him firsthand knowledge of all the issues that often conspire to exclude people from higher education; self doubt, fear of failure and "it’s for other people not me".
Dr O’Neill started his academic career at Swansea and then later moved to Cardiff University. During this time he has been involved in teaching and research duties and also taught at the University of Wales College of Medicine.
His research interests and experience cover a number of areas such as organisational change, health inequalities, community studies and social and economic regeneration, particularly in relation to the demise of traditional heavy industries. However, in recent years Dr O’Neill has become increasingly interested in participatory methods and Action Research as this represents an approach to research that seeks to bring academics and others together and actually solve real world problems. -
28th/29th October 2011
AESOP (Cardiff) 3rd Sustainable Food Planning Thematic Group Meeting
Conference oganising committee:
- Kevin Morgan
- Terry Marsden
- Andre Viljoen
- Han Wiskerke
- Roberta Sonnino
For more information
To register visit the registration page
September
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20th September 2011
Workshop series: Developing Place-Based Communities of Learning
Workshop number 1: Place based learning communities – an example from the Wet Tropics. 12 – 2pm
Room 1.76, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff UniversitySpeaker: Dr Kirsten Maclean, CSIRO
Chair: Dr Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, PLACE
Dr Maclean will open the workshop with a presentation about how place matters for indigenous engagement in environmental governance and planning. This will then be followed by a round table discussion looking at:
- Theories and methodologies
- Issues and applications of learning practice within the backdrop of environment and sustainability
- Gaps in our knowledge and any issues of concernBiography
Kirsten is a Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Social and Economic Sciences program, in Australia. Her current work focus is Indigenous engagement in regional water governance and planning in northern Australia. She is experienced in qualitative and participatory research methodologies and has worked in diverse teams including scientists, multi-media experts, representatives from government and non-government agencies, and Indigenous Australians. Her background is human geography and Kirsten recently worked on understanding and enhancing social resilience in the Wet Tropics and water dreaming with Kuku Nyungkal people from the Wet Tropics region of far north Queensland, Australia. -
28th September 2011
Workshop series: Developing Place-Based Communities of Learning
Workshop number 2: The role of co-research in sustainable place making.
12 – 2pm
Room 1.65, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff UniversityChair: Dr Alex Franklin, PLACE
This second workshop in the series will look at the role of co-research in sustainable place making. Participants will be encouraged to provide a summary of their work areas and any experience of co-research.
There will also be a discussion on potential opportunities for conducting co-research in Wales and applying for external research funding.
July 2011
- Tuesday 12 July, 1 -2pm
Sustainable Places Research Institute lunchtime seminar:
"A typology of Indigenous engagement in environmental planning and management"
Speaker:
Dr Rosemary Hill,
Senior Research Scientist/Biodiversity Planning,
Northern Australia Futures Group,
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
Chair:
Leanne Cullen-Unsworth,
Sustainable Places Research Institute
Location: Room 1.65, Glamorgan Building
In this lunch time seminar Dr Hill will focus on Indigenous governance and intercultural exchange in the context of environmental planning in Australia. Indigenous peoples now engage with many decentralised approaches to environmental planning and management that offer opportunities for integration of Indigenous knowledge systems. Nevertheless, processes of combining Indigenous approaches into environmental planning are diverse and affected by numerous factors, including the adaptive planning and management context, the intrinsic qualities of the natural resources, and the governance systems. Dr Hill will present a typology of Indigenous engagement in environmental planning and management, derived through comparative analysis of twenty one Australian case studies, and consider its implications for integration of IEK with western science for social-ecological system sustainability. Dr Hill will argue that Indigenous-governed types provide better prospects for enabling integration of Indigenous knowledge systems into environmental planning and management. Trade-offs that limit power-sharing to support distinct Indigenous cultural purposes may benefit integration of Indigenous knowledge and planning approaches. Such integration has been shown to enhance sustainability and resilience for linked social-ecological systems.
June 2011
- Wednesday 6 July 1-2pm
Sustainable Places Research Institute lunchtime seminar.
Speaker:
Dr Andrew Martel,
Research Fellow,
More Than a Roof Overhead project,
Centre for Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Chair:
Alain Chiaradia
CPLAN Research Associate
Location: Room 1.65, Glamorgan Building
In this lunch time seminar Dr Andrew Martel will focus on the conclusions of his PhD thesis, ‘Eco-Oikos: A study of some recent high-density student accommodation developments in Melbourne’, Andrew will present the idea of value in housing and the relationship between the economics and ecology of housing. He will also elaborate more on the methodology used in the research and how it may be further applied when examining urban development. Andrew’s research work at the Centre for Design focuses on how procurement, design, and construction methods and life cycle assessments can be used in innovative ways to enhance ‘non-building’ outcomes in remote indigenous communities.
- Wednesday 8th
As part of Wales Biodiversity Week, a Sustainable Places Research Institute seminar; "Putting Nature Back in Place: an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Biodiversity Conservation".
Speakers:
- Professor Susan Baker, School of Social Sciences
- Professor Mike Bruford, School of Biosciences
- Dr Isabelle Durance, Leverhulme Research Fellow
Part of the Cardiff University's Sustainable Places Research Institute Research Seminar series.
8 June 2011, 2 -4 pm, Beverton Lecture Theatre, Main Building.
- Friday 17th
“Sustainability as how not what”
Speaker:
Professor Melanie DuPuis, University of California.
Melanie DuPuis is a Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work melds political economy and cultural perspectives in the study of consumption, food, agriculture, development, environment, technology, justice and social change. Her methods include social history, policy analysis, discourse analysis and geography.
Other speakers:
- Dr Alex Franklin (Chair), Cardiff University's Sustainable Places Research Institute and Associate Member of the BRASS (ESRC) Research Centre.
- Professor Terry Marsden, Cardiff University's Sustainable Places Research InstituteDr Roberta Sonnino, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
- Dr Roberta Sonnino, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Jointly hosted by The ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) and Cardiff University's Sustainable Places Research Institute
17 June 2011, 2 – 4pm. Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University- Wednesday 29th
"Creating a Sustainable Economy. Growing New Business Skills in Wales"
Speakers:
- Sharanne Basham-Pyke, Business Sustainability Director, BT Global Services
- Professor Terry Marsden (Chair), Cardiff University's Sustainable Places Research Institute
- Professor Ken Peatie, Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) and Cardiff University's Sustainable Places Research Institute
Registration from: 6pm, Bute Building, Cardiff University
For more information and to register:
Visit the Innovation Network Site
- Thursday 30th
A seminar jointly hosted by the Sustainable Places Research Institute and Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning:
"Issues in sustainability governance: Tar sands, carbon capture and storage, and the Canadian experience.”
Speaker: Professor James Meadowcroft, Carleton University
James Meadowcroft is a Professor in both the School of Public Policy and Administration and in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada, and a member of the Sustainable Places Research Institute International Advisory board.
His research is focused on the ways in which governments are adjusting their practices and policies in order to cope with the emergence of problems of the environment and sustainable development.
Other Speakers:
Chair: Dr Peter Feindt, CPLAN
Discussant 1: Prof Susan Baker, SOCSI
Discussant 2: Prof Hugh Compston, EUROS
Location: Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University
Refreshments available - Wednesday 29th
May 2011
- Saturday 7th
"Climate change, sustainability and biodiversity in Cardiff and Europe"
Is Cardiff an environmental leader among European cities? How can Europe respond to the threat of climate change and biodiversity loss?
Speakers:
- Terry Marsden, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
- Peter Jones, RSPB Cymru and the Welsh Assembly Government's Climate Change Commission
- Chris Groves, Cardiff Transition Project, and the BRASS Centre at Cardiff University
- Simon Bilsborough, Sustainable Development Branch, Department for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, Welsh Assembly Government
Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE
Part of the FREE TransEuropa Festival in Cardiff: www.euroalter.com/festival/cardiff/
- Monday 9th
Research Seminar - "Modes of working across the social and natural sciences divide: experiences from interdisciplinary research on environment and sustainable development"
Speakers:
- Prof Katarina Eckerberg
- Prof Terry Marsden (Chair)
- Prof Malcolm Williams (Director SOCSI)
- Dr Isabelle Durance (PLACE-BIOSI)
Professor Katarina Eckerberg has extensive experience of working across disciplines in the field of environment and sustainable development research. She will share her thoughts on what works, how and why drawing from her past research projects as well as in interdisciplinary research institute settings such as the Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centre. She will also give some glimpses from her newest interdisciplinary project on Ecological Restoration in Policy & Practice.
Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building.
For more information and to register please contact Nat Slow, SlowNS@Cardiff.ac.uk
April 2011
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Thursday 14th-Friday 15th - "Towards “The Big Environmental Society”?" - British-German workshop on landscape governance.
Registration has now opened for this trans-disciplinary symposium, which is jointly organised by the Research Group CIVILand (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany) and the Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, BRASS Research Centre and the new Sustainable Places Research Institute.
Full details on this event
March 2011
- Tuesday 15th - "Strategically Navigating Towards Resilience"
How can we develop more resilient projects and cities in the future?
To answer this question Professor Jean Hillier makes the case for considering resilience, adaptability and transformability (RATs) and advocates a resilience-based approach that works with change rather than attempting to control it. Jean will present a methodology for strategic navigation, as an approach towards more adaptive and reflexive forms of governance to help develop more resilient projects and cities in the future."
The event will take place between 1.30 - 4pm, Venue: Room 1.65 Glamorgan Building. All welcome.
- Wednesday 16th - Climate Risk Perceptions: The Role of Psychological Distance and Place, comprising the following 30 min talks -
Nick Pidgeon - Attitudes to Climate Change Risks and Local Experiences
Lorraine Whitmarsh - Environmental Values, Scepticism and Climate Change
The event will take place between 2 - 4pm. Venue: Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building.
February 2011
- Wednesday 16th - 'Research Seminar; Healthy Sustainable Places'
Cardiff University’s Sustainable Places Research Institute next research seminar will look at: Healthy Sustainable Places; how much is who we are and how much is where we live? And how can we create healthy, sustainable places. The event will take place between 2- 4pm. Venue: The Beverton Lecture Theatre, Cardiff University Main Building
Speakers: Professor Stephen Palmer (Chair), Professor David Fone - Director, Centre for Health Sciences Research, and Professor Gareth Williams - Cardiff School of Social Sciences.
January 2011
- January 19th - Professor John Whitelegg (Stockholm Environment Institute) and Professor Ken Peattie (Sustainable Places Research Institute) will give a talk on “Low Carbon transport: an interdisciplinary opportunity” on 19 January 2011, 14:00-16:00, the Council Chamber of the Glamorgan Building. The event is sponsored by the Research and Graduate Schools.
For further information visit the Sustainability and Behaviour Blog.
