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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI)
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Interdisciplinary research partnerships generating sustainable solutions to global challenges. Newsletter: http://bit.ly/2yVFYz6, YESI 🎬: https://ow.ly/8u2A50Tz00M
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We’ll share news, events + opps on research tackling today’s biggest environmental challenges. Expect conversations on:

🌱Food, Water + Waste
🌳Resilient Socio-ecological Systems
🌎Environment + Health

Connect, share ideas + collaborate with like-minded individuals. Let’s build a sustainable future!🚀
Delighted to have attended the Community Without Limits Inclusive Impact Awards last night!

Honoured that our work was shortlisted for the Weaver Award for connecting across boundaries. Huge congrats to all the winners — brilliant recognition for the community builders across our University. 💛✨
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌳 Happy #NationalTreeWeek!

Join us on 2 Dec for "Storytelling as Method for Inclusive + Reciprocal Research Practices".

Creative outdoor storytelling w/shop (11-12) with Lotte Dijkstra, then an indoor hybrid session (12:30-2).

Bring people + place together! buff.ly/vBfDpac
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Very refreshing to be at a workshop where people are actively engaged, participating and passionate about the valuing voices tool and how this can help people do #research better…..
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November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🌊 Water-WAY Workshop, 8 Dec (2-4 PM, ENV/105x)!

York researchers: Let's map our water expertise + strategy for industry. Themes: #PublicHealth, #ResourceSecurity, #Environment.

👉 Action: Fill out a slide (DM for link) & RSVP: [email protected].

Even if you can't attend, submit a slide!
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔹 Paid Food Shines Consultancy Placements UK-Based Doctoral + PHD Students!

Work with NGOs + govt to explore real food-system challenges.

✔️ Remote or hybrid, Mar–Sept 2026
✔️ Open to all disciplines
✔️ Must attend Food Shines Conference (19/02/26)
🗓️ Apply by 1 Dec 2025
📘 Full pack: buff.ly/EOIozIA
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣 Tomorrow in York!
Join Retrofit Futures 2025, showcasing the Retrofit One Stop Shop project + York’s progress on fair, scalable home retrofit.

SEI’s Luke Gooding will share why locally rooted One Stop Shops like YorEnergy are essential for community-centred climate action.

Book: buff.ly/qqM856m
Retrofit Futures 2025 - Insights From Building A Retrofit One Stop Shop | YorEnergy
Join us for a full-day showcase at York Guildhall exploring the lessons from the Retrofit One Stop Shop York (ROSSY) project, peer learning through the York Retrofit Network, and the official launch…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Making the connections between eroded #mountains and global #food supply! Soil and sediments from northern #Thailand collect down river and drive agricultural production in extensive rice fields along the Chao Phraya river @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @yesiuoy.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
💸 #FundingFriday

Internally Distributed Funding – Winter Call 2025
📢 Launch postponed to 4 Dec 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 23 Jan 2026

A new ‘Available Funding’ Guide will be published before the call opens. No funding available for research priming.

Full details will appear here:
www.york.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
💸 #FundingFriday

The Green Future Fellowship – Accelerated International Route (GFF AIR) is open for exceptional non-UK applicants developing breakthrough climate solutions.

💰 £3M award
⏳ Deadline: Sept 2027
🌍 For urgent, high-impact, rapid-progress projects.

More info: buff.ly/XPOPUwt
Green Future Fellowships - Accelerated International Route
A new route open to exceptional international researchers and innovators to develop and scale up their breakthrough climate solutions.
raeng.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌱#RetrofitFutures2025 is coming up!

Hear Luke Gooding (SEI York) on how locally rooted One Stop Shops like #YorEnergy can speed up climate action, build trust + make retrofit work for all.

For local authorities, policymakers + practitioners driving York’s 2030 goals.

Sign up: buff.ly/0gORAZX
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
BE@York Seminar: Technology Readiness of Bio-based Construction Materials
📅 Tues 25 Nov 2025, 12–1pm
🎤 Mark Corbett, Biorenewables Development Centre

No booking required. Open to staff + PGRs. 🔗 buff.ly/De5HKcG

Join us to explore the future of sustainable, bio-based materials in construction.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌿 Storytelling as Method for Inclusive + Reciprocal Research Practices – Tues 2 Dec, 11:00–14:00 @york.ac.uk

Join guest speaker Lotte Dijkstra for an outdoor storytelling workshop + hybrid talk on inclusive, place-based research.

Free, open to staff + students. Booking here: 🔗 buff.ly/vBfDpac
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🌍 From Bradford to Belém.

A new blog by Dr Kelli Kennedy + Dr Amy Barnes shows how community-led climate research in Bradford mirrors what #COP30 is demanding: genuine collaboration + local evidence at the heart of climate action.

Local voice → global impact.

Read more: 🔗 buff.ly/Kn8N60y
From Bradford to Belém
Local Evidence Confirms COP30 Calls for Genuine Collaboration is a Net Zero Necessity
www.york.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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📣Calling all researchers & practitioners – join us for a practical webinar to introduce an interactive tool that maps the social science evidence of land managers & woodland creation.

📅 Thursday 4 December, 15:00 - 15:30
💻 Free online session

👉 Register: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/land-ma...
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🎄✨ Join #YESI for a relaxed, drop-in festive get-together.

Mince pies, good company + space to unwind with others passionate about environmental sustainability. 🔗 buff.ly/2a8xXVG

👋 ECR Hour – come share your ideas for future YESI ECR activities.

Festive attire optional but encouraged!
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🌳 InTREEgue Network Monthly Meeting – University Tree Trail Update

Join us Tues 9 Dec, 11 - 12 pm (online) to review progress on the University of York’s Tree Trail project 🌲

We’ll discuss ideas for tags, categories + ways to bring the trail to life — all welcome!

🎟️ Book here: buff.ly/dII7bF6
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Last chance to join us for Rethinking Conservation Strategies in Brazil.

📅Tue 18 Nov
📍hybrid
🔗https://buff.ly/Op2Zun5

Dr Carlos Hugo Rocha will explore what the UK National Park model can teach us about sustainable, community-led land management in Brazil’s vulnerable Campos Gerais Ecoregion
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
💼 #FundingFriday: (Pre-announcement): EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships 2027

This upcoming call will fund ambitious, collaborative research that’s business-led + co-created with academia, driving UK prosperity through innovation, jobs + sustainability.

🔗 buff.ly/v4muL0I
Pre-announcement: EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships 2027
Apply for funding to support ambitious, collaborative research programmes.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We didn’t win but we had a fabulous and uplifting night at the #THEAwards and we were honoured to be shortlisted in the Environmental Leadership category.

Congratulations to all the inspiring winners and nominees, you’re all amazing 👏👏👏
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#FundingFriday: AHRC-BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026 scheme gives 5 ECRs the chance to work with BBC producers, appear on air + learn how to bring big ideas to the public.

💡Apply by 28 Jan 2026
📻Open to late PhD–8 yrs post-PhD researchers with a passion for storytelling!
🔗 buff.ly/QQqK7Aj
AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026
This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4. They will appear on a number of episodes and shadow the production process to understand…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Super happy to be nominated for #THEAwards Outstanding Environmental Leadership Award🤞🤞🤞 @york.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Having a fabulous night, 🤞🤞🤞#TheAwards
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🎮 Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder!

Join us Fri 24 Apr 2026 (York) to explore how games can tackle environmental challenges through play — from tabletop to digital and RPGs.

Call for contributions now open (deadline 10 Jan)!

💡 Talks, workshops, world cafés + more.

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November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Really pleased to see the work of Banki Chunwate's work in Nasawara State #Nigeria now published - great insights on community perceptions of the importance of #ecosystem services from gazetted #forests
@yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding community perceptions of the importance of ecosystem services from gazetted forests
Understanding how protected areas support forest community livelihoods is crucial for informing forest conservation and reducing land degradation. This paper evaluates ecosystem services perceived ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM