Event Details

Live at 13:00 (UK time) on Wednesdays, everyone is invited to join our online lunchtime seminar series! With local and international speakers from across the environment-related natural and social sciences, anyone anywhere can watch live, including submitting questions via the 'chat' function. The videos will later be uploaded onto YouTube to be viewed and shared.

All are very welcome to join us!

Spring and Summer 2021 Programme

1. Prof Barbara Maher, Lancaster University - 'Ultrafine, metal-rich air pollution particles: access all areas; and links with the neurodegenerative pandemic?' - Recording on YouTube
2. Professor Frances Cleaver, Chair of Political Ecology, Lancaster University - 'Transformations to sustainability through bricolage?' - Recording on YouTube
3. Joint session with the Department of Languages & Cultures (DeLC) - Dr Ainhoa Montoya, University of London - 'Dispossession through Juridification: Irregular Uses of Law and the Defense of Territory in Honduras'- this seminar was not recorded
4. Dr Guaduneth Chico, Nottingham Trent University - 'The extent of windfarm developments on European blanket bogs' - this seminar was not recorded
5. Dr Katie Woolaston, Queensland University of Technology, Australia - 'A Critical Analysis of the Links between Biodiversity and Pandemic Prevention in International Environmental Law' - Recording on YouTube
6. Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business hosted '"Keystone actors" and hidden connections: a sustainability science approach', as part of their Speaker Series. The session introduced the Centre's incoming Director Professor Jan Bebbington and providing insight into a new mode of research that is emerging at the intersection of organisational and ecological scholarship - Recording on YouTube
7. Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, Zoological Society of London - 'How can international journals support science from the Global South?' - Recording on YouTube

Format

On seminar day, click on an individual seminar title above for the link to join us through Microsoft Teams. Guidance on joining a Teams event available here.

• 13:00 (UK time) Welcome and introduction
• 20 minute presentation from our speaker
• Speaker takes questions from our virtual audience submitted through the text 'Chat' function
• Videos uploaded onto Lancaster Environment Centre's YouTube channel for later viewing

You can also join the conversation on Twitter: #LECSeminar.