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water@leeds with Athena Swan teams partnering to recognize the inspiring power of women. water@leeds in partnership with faculty Athena Swan teams are delighted to launch the third Water Woman Award. Water Woman aims to recognize the achievements of women in research, and their power to inspire others. By rewarding achievements by women whose work contributes...
Five new research projects have launched to investigate how pollution impacts UK rivers. The projects form a UK wide Freshwater Quality Programme which is being co-ordinated by Programme Champions, Professors Joseph Holden and Pippa Chapman. Most UK rivers fail to meet good ecological status Scientists will: create new tools for monitoring freshwater pollution; study how...
In a follow-up seminar to the Global Flood Partnership 2022 meeting held recently at the University of Leeds, we have three talks by regional experts exploring the realities of flood risk for: Nigeria, the Congo Basin and Bangladesh. All three speakers have travelled to Leeds to share their experience and knowledge in this in-person seminar....
The SPRING competition is a PGR funding award developed by water@leeds which is open to all PhD students working on projects related to water. It provides the opportunity to apply for £500 to support research. Applications for the December round of the award are now invited. We’ll consider any research that considers water! – whether...
Priority global water-research questions for the looming climate crisis Monday 14 November, 13:00 - 15:00 GMT Register here. water@leeds recently published an article in the One Earth Journal showcasing a list of six priority global water research themes for the coming decade, outputs from a global scoping exercise. These six thematic domains include water and...
Legitimacy and Priorities for Agricultural Income Support Schemes: Experimental Evidence from Scotland Invited speaker: Dr Klaus Glenk, SRUC Scotland’s Rural College Thursday 10 November, 14:00 – 15:00 Seminar Room 2, 8.11 School of Geography Please register here Klaus is Reader in Environmental Economics at SRUC, Edinburgh, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment...
We welcome you to join us for our annual event which is all about sharing ideas, meeting new people, and creating new interdisciplinary collaborations around the theme of water. There are no disciplinary boundaries - we welcome presentations and participants from across faculties. We hope you will join us for the first in-person Confluence since...
Our monthly spotlight on the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers. September 2022 - Zhe Zhan School of Civil Engineering and member of the UKRI GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub. PhD title: The impact of flooding on onsite sanitation – new approaches to predicting environmental contamination and health impacts...
NERC co-appoint Professor Pippa Chapman and Professor Joseph Holden as Freshwater Quality Champions The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have co-appointed Professor Pippa Chapman and Professor Joseph Holden as the new Freshwater Quality Champion for the Understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters programme. This appointment will see the academics lead and co-ordinate a new four-year programme on ‘Understanding changes...
The 2022 Global Flood Partnership Annual Conference will be held at the University of Leeds from Tuesday 6th - Thursday 8th September. The conference venue is School of Chemical and Process Engineering. The theme is Floods and People: Health, Food, Climate, Conflict and Migration. Registration is now closed. Preliminary agenda here: AGENDA There will be...