1:30pm - 3:30pm BST

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Institute for Sustainability mid-year Showcase

Please join the Fellows of the Institute for Sustainability and meet Professor Ravi Silva, Interim Director of the Institute for Sustainability.

Discover the latest developments within our Research Programmes through a series of short talks and network over coffee and cake.

Lecture Theatre L (LTL)
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH

Showcase agenda

13:30: Welcome by Professor Ravi Silva, Interim Director of the Institute for Sustainability ​and Professor Tim Dunne, Interim President and Vice-Chancellor

13:40: Presentations from the Programmes

  • Transforming Food Systems: Dr Zoe M. Harris
    Can vertical farming be the key to improving and safeguarding the United Kingdom's food system?
  • Ensuring Sustainable Energy: Dr Michael Short
  • Protecting and Enhancing Our Environment: Dr Melissa Marselle
  • Reshaping Production and Consumption: Prof Robert Dorey 
    "SustaPack: A research partnership on next generation sustainable packaging for liquids"
  • Improving Health and Wellbeing: Dr Elizabeth Mumford 
    Generating a systems thinking Process Framework for equitable and sustainable One Health?
  • Creating Smart Infrastructure and Cities: Sophie Voss (PhD student)
    Nudging for Lasting Pro-Environmental Behaviour in the Tourism Sector
  • The Surrey Circular Economy Group: Prof Jin Xuan
    Smart Production and Smart Cities

Strategic decarbonisation planning for hospitals as a systematic whole system approach   

Integrating research on the human health benefits of natural environments into the DEFRA's Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment Programme (NCEA) - Experiences from the Royal Society Pairing Scheme

15:00: Network over coffee 

15:30: Event ends.

Please email ifs@surrey.ac.uk to register your interest. 

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