This blog tracks some of the research and action on climate change at Swansea University. The climate emergency needs cross disciplinary research and this blog embraces arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and practice. To propose a blog please email Professor Kirsti Bohata (k.bohata@swansea.ac.uk)…Continue Reading
By Haritha Sara Kuriakose Masters Student, Environmental Biology, Swansea University On 22 May 2024, Ambreena Manji, Professor of Land Law and Development, Cardiff University, gave a talk on ‘The Emancipatory Politics of Indigenous People in Kenya’ at Swansea University, a talk based on her new book. Although her earlier works examined Kenya’s questionable property laws,…Continue Reading The Difference between ‘Hearth’ and ‘Hiraeth’: An Indigenous Perspective
by Katherine Watson PhD candidate, Department of History, Heritage and Classics On the 18th of June, I departed from Swansea on a green travel adventure around the UK to attend the DePOT summer institute and annual conference on ‘Gender, Family and Deindustrialization’ in Belfast and Glasgow. It would be 3 weeks before I returned to…Continue Reading A Green Route for Conference Travel: From Swansea to Belfast and Beyond Without Flying
by Chris Pak and Yolanda Rendon-Guerrero Towards a Biophilic Nation: Transdisciplinary Interventions in Design, Education and Policy (25th–26th June 2024, Swansea) “Towards a Biophilic Nation: Transdisciplinary Interventions in Design, Education and Policy” was the first biophilic symposium held to mark the inauguration of the Biophilic Centre of Excellence. Funded by Swansea University’s Morgan Advanced Studies…Continue Reading Towards a Biophilic Nation: Transdisciplinary Interventions in Design, Education and Policy
