Event Details

This year's LEC Winter Conference will celebrate our research partnerships beyond Higher Education, sharing the benefits and challenges of working together, as well as their wide-ranging outcomes with impact for policy, industry and society. All are welcome to a truly inspiring day! Join the conversation at #LECSeminar.

Keynote address

Prof Rebecca Willis LEC Professor in Practice, and an Expert Lead on Climate Assembly UK: “From evidence to action? Reflecting on the use of academic research in policy and government”

With case study sessions

• Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz and Jacob Phelps – "Tomatoes for Tomorrow" interdisciplinary research with indigenous fruit growers and consumers of Mexico
• Andy Wilby, Martin Wain (Butterfly Conservation) and research students – winners of the 2019 Marsh Award for Promotion of Lepidoptera Conservation
• Centre for Global Eco-Innovation – environmental research and innovation in business

Programme

09:40 - 10:00 MORNING COFFEE available in the LEC Spine Entrance foyer

• 10:00 - Welcome from LEC Director Prof Phil Barker
• 10:05 - Dr Steve Thackeray - Introducing the newly independent UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
• 10:10 - Prof Rebecca Willis - Keynote: "From evidence to action? Reflecting on the use of academic research in policy and government" including her role as an Expert Lead on Climate Assembly UK
• 10:45 - Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz and Jacob Phelps - Case Study: "Tomatoes for Tomorrow" work to preserve ‘climate smart’ tomatoes in Mexico
• 11:20 - Rachel Marshall - "Can we use permaculture principals to guide knowledge exchange: a case study around our local Food Partnership 'North Lancs Food Futures'"
• 11:40 - Dan Evans - "Dust to Dust: Redesigning Urban Life in Healthy Soils"
• 12:00 - LEC Sustainability Group - "Launching LEC's sustainability commitments"
• 12:25 - Head Chef Stuart Kennedy - Sustainable catering at Lancaster University

12:30 - 13:20 LUNCH for all available in the LEC Spine Entrance foyer including "Bake off" cake judging, then cutting to form dessert

• 13:20 - Andy Wilby, Martin Wain (Butterfly Conservation), Alex Blomfield and Elizabeth Davidson - Case Study: "Butterfly and moth conservation: linking student research to conservation practice" winners of the 2019 Marsh Award for Promotion of Lepidoptera Conservation
• 13:55 - Suzi Ilic - "Protecting our coast"
• 14:15 - Barry Simons - "Re-creating the Lancashire Local Nature Partnership"
• 14:30 - Centre for Global Eco-Innovation session - "Can't Get Enough Collaboration"
• 15:38 - Nigel Paul - "Engaging with global environmental policy makers: a personal perspective" including a UN award in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the Montreal Protocol
• 16:00 - Event ends

All students, staff and colleagues are encouraged to attend.

Join the conversation #LECSeminar!

We are also seeking contributions to our “Bake Off” competition* that will be on display during lunch break (12:30 until 13:20). We would like our budding Mary Berry’s to bring in creations on the theme of “our environment”, taking it as broadly as they wish! Some ideas to get you started: agriculture, tree, river, energy, beehive, bird, globe, urban development… Get in contact with Ali Birkett (a.birkett1@lancaster.ac.uk) and Bitten Brigham (b.brigham@lancaster.ac.uk) if you would like to get involved!

* Don't worry, there's no baking in a tent involved! Simply bake your contribution at home and bring it in, along with a card displaying the list of the ingredients used. Contributions will be judged at lunchtime and then cut to share between us all.