Celebrating Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research will be the theme of this year’s Sustainable Futures’ Annual Conference, an event showcasing interdisciplinary sustainability research at The University of Manchester.
Organised with Manchester Environmental Research Institute, Henry Royce Institute and the Sustainable Consumption Institute, the conference will reflect on past interdisciplinary initiatives and achievements while focusing on future opportunities for advancing sustainability solutions. Researchers will explore how to leverage seedcorn funding as a critical tool to build capacity for larger and more impactful funding applications. By fostering collaboration across disciplines, the conference aims to inspire new ideas and strategies that address the pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges of our time, driving the University’s role as a leader in interdisciplinary sustainable innovation and development.
Confirmed speakers
Ben Parkes ‘Tackling the energetic cost of computing at the University of Manchester’
Ciara McGrath ‘Visions of, and steps towards, an Environmentally Sustainable Space Future’
Sophie Nixon ‘Manchester Microbiome: Establishing UoM as an international centre for microbiome research’
Charis Enns ‘Mitigating zoonotic disease risk in shared landscapes through interdisciplinary action research’
Helen Holmes ‘The Waste Tip: Exploring fly-tipping and opportunities for better waste management’
Neil Dixon ‘Pathways for sustainable biomanufacturing futures’
Timothy Braunholtz-Speight ‘Truly Affordable Housing Finance for Net Zero’
Jane Wood ‘ PREMIER (Progressive and emerging interdisciplinary (bio) materials research) – the journey of a jersey’
Jingyi Li, Alejandro Gallego-Schmidt and Cathy Hollis ‘Addressing energy equity with mine water heating in former coal regions’
Anke Bernau – ‘Moss Worlds’
Matthew Paterson – ‘Contemporary crises and net zero transitions: Ukraine, COVID, and energy’
