ARC Launch
The Scottish Funding Council launches its 4 cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary Alliances for Research Challenges with a celebratory festival of ideas, speeches and networking reception.
The Scottish Funding Council launches its 4 cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary Alliances for Research Challenges with a celebratory festival of ideas, speeches and networking reception.
The Standardisation workshop with supply chain companies and householders will investigate how standardisation in tools and technologies can enable systems integration and address the performance gap between designed systems and real-world performance. In addition to gaps in data collection and standardisation, problems with the interoperability of hardware and software give rise to performance gaps in ... Read more
This three-day residential event is a first step in bridging, consolidating and amplifying Scottish research expertise in the arts, humanities and social sciences, with a focus on sustainability in households. The residential aim is to develop new research collaborations and ideas, identify priority agendas for research projects, shape seed funding plans, and lay the foundations ... Read more
Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes, and Livelihoods hosted its first major event of 2024 at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. This two-day Financial Pathways to Net Zero Incubator was designed to bring financial industry representatives together with researchers from universities and partners to discuss the question: how can we decarbonise Scotland’s housing and building stock ... Read more
In January 2024, we welcomed 25 Early Career Researchers from across Scotland to the Emerging Research Leaders Programme, and invited them to join us in The Burn, Edzell, for a three-day residential workshop. The 2024 workshop was delivered in collaboration with the Scottish Policy and Research Exchange, SPRE, and focused on Policy Engagement. ‘In this ... Read more
The grant writing retreat serves to build on the work we started at the Sustainable Households residential back in January. All of the successful seed fund teams, and some additional participants, will be working towards full research proposals during the workshop. The intention is to provide participants with space, time and a supportive environment to ... Read more
Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow Register here What are the co-benefits of investing in climate mitigation and adaptation? The true values of investing in climate change are understood to be far greater than traditional measures of financial returns, job creation, and tonnes of CO2 equivalents saved. Indeed, the ‘co-benefits’ of climate investing can include improved air ... Read more
The Emerging Research Leaders Programme is a skills development programme for early career researchers (ECRs). Built around annual training workshops, the programme aims to support ECRs in developing skills that will increase the impact of their work and enable them to become future research leaders. The programme also offers opportunities for networking, knowledge exchange, and ... Read more
A Collaborative Approach to Decarbonising Local Communities The Decarbonising Heat Crucible is an innovative event designed to support local authorities in decarbonising social housing and other challenging sites. This event aims to bring together three local authorities with diverse resources and needs, together with a range of experts from academia, supply chain companies, technology sectors, regulators, planners, and more. We ... Read more
How can we visualise the co-benefits of climate action? And, can co-benefits visualisations advance the integration of co-benefits into climate change policies, programmes, and projects? Join us on Tuesday 6 May at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI), from 12-4pm, for the launch of the UK Co-Benefits Atlas (UKCBA). Drawing on the analysis pioneered by ... Read more