United Kingdom

Citizen science and food waste workshop

Past event / This workshop will be the first step at setting up the network of combining research in food waste and citizen science.

How China can help London fix its air pollution crisis

Media coverage / When it comes to cleaning up the air, we have a lot to learn from the rest of the world, including China.

Unravelling past impacts of climate change and land management on historic peatland development using proxy-based reconstruction, monitoring data and process modelling

Journal article / Modelling moisture conditions to understand past climate-driven peatland development and carbon budgets together with likely management impacts.

Housing and life experiences: making a home on a low income

Other publication / This is the UK first study to provide a detailed qualitative longitudinal analysis of the interaction between poverty and housing over lifetimes.

Stop calling it the housing ladder. For those on low incomes, it’s a treadmill

Media coverage / Guardian Op-Ed on how lack of affordable housing in the UK seriously affects people's lives

Co-designing urban living solutions to improve older people’s mobility and well-being

Journal article / This co-design study reports on how urban spaces and infrastructure impacts mobility and well-being for older residents in the UK.

Citizen science identifies the effects of nitrogen deposition, climate and tree species on epiphytic lichens across the UK

Journal article / This article demonstrates how a citizen science project has led to greater understanding of lichen response to air pollution in the UK.

Does green infrastructure represent a sound investment opportunity?

Perspective / Will introducing green roofs, green walls, rain gardens and planting trees improve our cities?

CoCliME

Project / CoCliME – co-development of climate services for adaptation to changing marine ecosystems – will develop climate services for marine systems in Europe.