An ambitious new international project aims to convert waste from the global alcohol industry into valuable, sustainable agricultural resources. water@leeds Associate Director Professor Laura Carter (School of Geography) working with Dr Carlos Moreno-García and Dr John Brown from Robert Gordon University have secured funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to lead SABER: Sustainable Alcohol By-product Enhancement for Regenerative Soils (2025-2027). Bringing...
water@leeds hosted the first Working Group meeting for The Next Chapter Initiative on January 14th. The initiative led by Dr Paul Hutchings, water@leeds Associate Director for Impact and Dr Ruth Sylvester, Research Fellow Civil Engineering, will convene communities, water sector partners, and other stakeholders to explore alternative water futures for Yorkshire, making visible the trade-offs,...
A team of researchers from the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), led by Dr Markus Fraundorfer, have secured a funding bid entitled “Governing rivers as legal persons: Developing a kin-centric rights framework to address Brazil’s river crisis”. The project will receive funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (£993,924) and the São Paulo Research...
water@leeds and the Meanwood Valley Partnership were delighted to host the Empowering Citizen Science Partnerships event at the University of Leeds on June 11th. The event brought together eight local groups involved in water quality monitoring across the Leeds area, alongside other environmental stakeholders. With a lively mix of newer and more established citizen science...
In this meeting, Stuart Warner introduced progress made towards the implementation of SDG Indicator 6.3.2 and provided key insights into global water quality monitoring and assessment. This will provide an excellent background and set the scene for our workshop discussions on global water quality initiatives. Stuart Warner short bio: Stuart works for UNEP's Global Environment...
water@leeds will host an international and interdisciplinary workshop on "Enhancing Global Cooperation for Clean Water: Strategies to Manage Contaminants and Sustain Ecosystem Services" (June 4- 6, 2025) This workshop is organised by Professor Laura Carter (water@leeds Associate Director for Research) and Dr Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez (Head of water@leeds), Ann Marie Boyle (water@leeds administrator). Experts on contaminants...
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Gabriel López Porras as our Cheney Fellow 2024. Gabriel is a member of the Faculty of Zootechnics and Ecology, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico. He is an alumnus of the University's School of Earth and Environment where he undertook his PhD research, graduating in 2019. He has written...
Five pioneering UK research projects have each received a share of £14.5 million funding under phase two of the transforming land use for net zero, nature and people programme. The UK's efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 have been significantly boosted thanks to a £14.5 million investment by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)...
From Rivers to Oceans: Bridging the disconnect between freshwater and marine research communities. water@leeds and the Sustainability and Climate Change lab at Tecnológico de Monterrey are working together to bridge the gap between freshwater and marine research communities. Our goal is to better understand how these interconnected systems influence one another and to find ways...
water@leeds, the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and Opera North are delighted to present MELTWATER at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds at 7.30pm 27 September 2023. In the last two decades the rate at which the polar ice caps is melting has doubled. MELTWATER is an audio-visual performance which takes as its inspiration the sights and sounds...
