Diversity to Decarbonise: Promoting EDI in the future workforce Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
Project to promote EDI in the industrial decarbonisation sector.
Professor Briony McDonagh
Briony McDonagh
Interim Director of the Energy and Environment Institute & Professor of Environmental Humanities
NERC: Supporting Interdisciplinarity in Discovery Science 2022 Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
Arts, Heritage and Liveability: Assessing the effectiveness of community arts and heritage initiatives in Kingston Upon Hull to build urban liveability in precarious places Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
12 month WRDTP ESRC Fellowship which will develop my skills as an academic.
My objectives for this ESRC fellowship are four-fold:
I. To carry out timely and important research which evaluates the impact of community arts/herita...
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On the Edge: a co-created exploration of young people’s eco-anxiety in the face of climate uncertainty Jul 1, 2021 - May 30, 2022
On the Edge is an innovation theatrical and digital intervention which brings together research experts, artists and young people in order to explore young people’s eco-anxiety and empower them in the face of human-induced climate change. It stems fr...
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The University of Hull Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre on Water Cultures Jun 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2027
Water Cultures critically re-examines our relationships with water in the populous, but precarious, zones between land and sea. Coastal, estuary and delta regions are home to 40% of global population, and the opportunities and challenges of living wi...
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Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate Aug 1, 2020 - Jul 30, 2023
Estuarine and coastal cities are acutely vulnerable in the face of climate uncertainty. 40% of the world's population lives within 100km of the sea and coastal populations are directly at risk from rising sea levels and the combined effects of storm...
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By the rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell's Hull Oct 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020
This project engages new and young audiences with the story of ?tide of Humber? poet, Andrew Marvell (1621-78), highlighting Marvell?s relationship with Hull and the Humber in the lead-up to Marvell?s 400th birthday in 2021. The project teams BetaJes...
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Experiencing the landscape: popular geographical imaginations in the English Midlands, 1450-1650 Sep 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2017
This project explores popular geographical imaginations, asking how ordinary people in medieval and early modern England thought about, experienced and themselves sought to shape the world around them. Drawing on recent work in cultural geography, ar...
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Gendering the commons Jan 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2022
Interest in the politics of land and property has undergone a recent resurgence with commons celebrated as models for sustainable living and a politics of inclusion. Yet whilst scholars recognise that commons were never public spaces open to all, the...
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Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found Jun 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2020