Global Systems Institute – Creating Transformative Solutions

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Global Systems Institute – Creating Transformative Solutions

Venue: Forum Building, Stocker Road, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, EX4 4SZ

Date and time: Monday 2 July 12.15 - Tuesday 3 July 15.00

Information

The Global Systems Institute aims to be thought-leading in understanding global changes, solving global challenges, and helping create a flourishing future world together. The overarching question guiding our endeavour is: How do we achieve a flourishing future for a projected 9-11 billion people as an integral part of a life-sustaining Earth system?

Researchers are invited to an internal launch focused on developing networked, global-scale solutions. The outputs will provide the focus for project seed funding, partnership engagement and bids for external funding.

Agenda

Day One - Monday 2 July

12:15 – 13:00 Lunch (Forum Street)

13:00 – 13:05 Introduction from Professor Nick Talbot, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact (Alumni Auditorium, Forum)

13:05 - 13:30 Scene-setting from Professor Tim Lenton, GSI Director (Alumni Auditorium)

13:45 – 15:30 Parallel mini-workshops for each challenge area (workshop descriptions available here) (Forum Seminar Rooms)

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 16:20 Plenary Feedback (Alumni Auditorium)

16:20 - 16:40 Tania Kovats, Arts and Culture Fellow (Alumni Auditorium)

16:40 – 17:00 Global Voices and Closing Remarks (Alumni Auditorium)

17:00 – 18:30 Drinks and Networking (The Street, Forum)

Day Two - Tuesday 3 July

09:10 – 10:00 Welcome and plenary (Paul Lussier, Lecturer at Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Science Communications with Impact Network) held in the Alumni Auditorium

10:00 – 12:00 Parallel mini-workshops (workshop descriptions available here)

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch (Forum Street)

12:45 – 13:30 Plenary Feedback (Alumni Auditorium)

13:30 – 14:00 Reflections and moving forward (Alumni Auditorium)

14:00 – 14:15 Closing Remarks

15:00 - Close

Workshops

The following workshops will take place during the event:

Monday:

• Post-Paris Climate Science: informing action in a complex system
• How can we transform the land to a carbon sink providing multiple benefits?
• Achieving sustainable rapid urbanisation
• The role of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in ensuring sustainable development and a better future?
• Earth System plastics
• Circular Economy in Business: Possibilities, Paradoxes and Challenges
• Interdisciplinary approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance

Tuesday:

• Global citizen engagement: Who to engage with, why and how?
• Investing in the future – how can GSI support development of effective Green Finance initiatives?
• Towards Excellence in Engaging Teaching in the GSI
• Anarchism, climate change and the problem of scale
• Humans meet technology meet systems change
• Revolutions that Made the Earth

A list of all the confirmed workshops to date with detailed descriptions can be downloaded here.

Audience

All interested Exeter Academics / research staff, Postgraduate students and relevant professional services staff are welcome to attend this event.

Registration and contact

To register your attendance, please use the green 'register' button on this page. If you have any questions please contact research-events@exeter.ac.uk