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SEI York, based at the University of York, has a diverse research agenda including air pollution, climate change, sustainable consumption and human health. Using a range of participatory approaches, such as citizen science, we help policymakers in the UK and around the world make informed decisions for a sustainable and inclusive future.
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Perspective / In this op-ed, SEI's Robert Farnan and Jonathan Ensor reflect on the relationship between clinicians and patients in the development of healthcare technology.
Feature / SEI researchers explore how Bangkok’s pocket parks impact urban health, wellbeing, and social life, offering insights for greener, more livable cities.
Feature / Kevin Hicks presented evidence at a House of Lords nitrogen pollution inquiry as the committee drafts a report to advise the government on better management.
Feature / A new metric uses data on 30 000 vertebrate species to map global extinction risks, potentially reshaping land-use decisions on local and regional scales.
Journal article / Biodiversity leakage - displacing nature-damaging human activities by protecting or restoring areas of land - undermines global conservation efforts.
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The research areas at SEI York include sustainable consumption and production; air quality, climate and environmental change; critical environmental governance; environments, human health and well-being, and citizen science.
The air quality, climate and environmental change group at SEI York works to quantify the impacts of these threats and to identify solutions.
The citizen science group at SEI York designs, runs and evaluates citizen science and participatory research on environmental sustainability topics.
The critical environment governance group is a critical space that operates in established and emerging fields of study.
Understanding how environmental quality of the built environment interacts to influence populations health and wellbeing.
The sustainable consumption and production group at SEI aims to link the impacts of production to provide useful contextualized data and info to stakeholders
Project / CHILI aims to ensure that we support and improve children’s health and education as school and nursery buildings are adapted for energy efficiency.
Project / We’re delivering a co-designed web-based tool to enable schools to see the costs and benefits of installing HEPA filter units.
Project / The project works with partners in Africa on solar electricity for off-grid communities.
Project / We’re working with Hertfordshire County Council, using SAMHE to evaluate how using HEPA filters in schools affects air quality.
Project / A partnership with STEM Learning to use SAMHE (Schools’ Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education) to support schools in Educational Improvement Areas.
Project / SEI provides scientific inputs and policy action advice to the World Bank Global Methane Reduction Platform for Development -CH4D
Project / The project supports the development of an Africa Clean Air Program continental roadmap and implementation plans.
Project / SEI researchers and partners will create three assessments on economics, agriculture and food systems, and nitrous oxide to aid decision-making on SLCPs.
Project / SEI and CCAC support Brazil's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in developing a National Plan on SLCP to combat climate change and air pollution.
Project / The project incorporates SLCPs and other air pollutants into the GLEC Framework on emissions tracking for businesses.
Project / We provide in-depth technical support to the Alliance secretariat and corporate members on value chain air pollution emissions reductions and target setting.
Project / SEI at the University of York is collaborating with the City of York to develop a retrofit one-stop shop to help the city achieve its net zero goals.
Project / The Global Ageing and Climate Change Regional Dialogues explore policies, practices, and challenges around climate justice in an ageing world.
Project / The project works with the Bogotá Environmental Agency to develop diverse pathways for air quality management.
Project / SEI's Ecological Citizens project cultivates trans-disciplinary collaboration and research to enable a digital sustainable society for positive climate action.
Project / SEI works with research institutes to assess the impact of pollutants, besides CO₂, that drive climate change, and to develop climate change mitigation options.
Project / Accelerating low carbon transport policies and plans that meet the mobility needs of marginalized groups in Indonesia.
Project / This project investigates air pollutants inside homes in the city of Bradford, UK: their sources, interactions and health effects on those living there.
Project / Novel methods to map the social and cultural value of trees to inform policy decisions regarding urban treescapes.
Project / Working with young people to co-design relevant mental health research by identifying and addressing priority research questions.
Project / Investigating if and how hands-on experiences with nature impact values, attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour amongst secondary school students.
Project / The University of York SEI Centre implements customized capacity-building programs on active mobility in African transport structures on the HVT project.
Project / A citizen science project monitoring indoor air, created with and for UK schools.
Project / Assessing trade in agricultural commodities e.g. palm oil and soybean production in environments at risk.
Project / Exploring the feasibility of citizen science to improve WASH conditions in two districts of Mexico City.
Tool / This new public dashboard can be used to visualize and interact with data on the global environmental impacts of consumption.
Head to our project pages to learn more about SEI York’s projects, past and present. There, you can filter by project status, region and topic to tailor content to your research interests.
