Category Archives: academia

“Can we govern the #climate?” #Manchester, 19th October

Posted on October 10, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 19 October 2016, entitled ‘Can We Govern the Climate?’. The seminar will be held in Room B5, Alliance Manchester Business School East, between 4.00 … Continue reading →

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Upcoming event: C02e Zombie climatic metric? #Manchester 13th October

Posted on October 3, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

CO2e- the Zombie Climate Metric Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford Thursday 13th October (room C21, Pariser Building, Sackville Street) at 4.00pm.  Please note the change of venue from the usual Tyndall seminars room! Anthropogenic greenhouse gases vary in the two dimensional … Continue reading →

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Epic #climate twitter slap down (not #Manchester )

Posted on August 17, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Sometimes you can say a lot in 140 characters…  

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Upcoming Event: “Emancipating Transformation” #Manchester Thursday 23rd June

Posted on June 9, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Tyndall Manchester would like to invite you to attend the next talk in our seminar series “Emancipating Transformations: from controlling ‘the transition’ to culturing plural radical progress” by Professor Andrew Stirling, on Thursday 23rd June (room C1, George Begg Building, Sackville Street) … Continue reading →

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Event Report: UCU #climate conference, #Manchester

Posted on May 13, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

So, “The Role of Education Institutions in tackling climate change”, a one day free (as a starving (cough, cough) PhD student, currently my favourite word) UK conference here in unseasonably sunny Manchester. Started on time, with some Spartism which we … Continue reading →

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CANCELLED Upcoming Event: “‘Changing Institutions in a changing climate” #Manchester 26th May

Posted on May 11, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

UPDATE 24 MAY – HAVE JUST BEEN INFORMED THAT, BECAUSE OF THE UCU STRIKE, THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. Delivered by Professor Audley Genus, Kingston University In the seminar, I argue that a more rounded understanding of how to respond effectively … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Event: “Education and Climate Change” Fri 13 May, #Manchester

Posted on April 28, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Two weeks until a national conference, held in Manchester on “The role of education institutions in tackling climate change” For further details and to register for this free event, click here. [And maybe sometime soon the well-funded-with-council-money ‘Manchester A Certain … Continue reading →

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Looting the Ivory Tower: On the UK Climate Change Act 2008…

Posted on April 21, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Lorenzoni, I. and Benson, D. 2014. Radical institutional change in environmental governance: Explaining the origins of the UK Climate Change Act 2008 through discursive and streams perspectives.  Global Environmental Change, Vol. 29 pp.210-21. The TL;DR. You can look at the … Continue reading →

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Not #Manchester; PhD Scholarship in Climate Change Fiction

Posted on April 14, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Do pass this on to anyone who might be interested PhD Scholarship in Climate Change Fiction Ghent University – Department of Literary Studies Qualification type: PhD Location: Ghent Funding for: UK Students, EU Students, International Students Funding amount: €1,900 to … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Event: “The carbon and development space” #Manchester Thurs 25th February

Posted on February 16, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

The carbon and development spaces Dr. Marco Sakai, University of Leeds (biography attached) In the latest UN climate change conference held in Paris, governments all around the world agreed to strengthen efforts to limit the rise in the global average temperature … Continue reading →

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