Dr Ed Brookes' Projects (10)

HIKE: Community Waterscapes: landscape change through the lens of water, community and material culture Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025
Building on the success of previous interdisciplinary humanities-led projects which have worked with communities to share knowledges of cultural and environmental change in watery spaces (AHRC Risky Cities; ESRC White Rose Fellowship Arts, Heritage &... Read More about HIKE: Community Waterscapes: landscape change through the lens of water, community and material culture.

HIKE: The Water Cultures Hull-Utrecht Symposium: Living with Risk, Learning through Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange Aug 9, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
The purpose of this HIKE Rapid Response Fund application is to support attendance at an international symposium at Utrecht University - ‘Water Cultures: Living with Risk in Coastal, Estuarine, and Oceanic Environments’ (see attached poster). This sym... Read More about HIKE: The Water Cultures Hull-Utrecht Symposium: Living with Risk, Learning through Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange.

HIKE: Risky Cities KE fellowship Jan 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
This KE Fellowship will enhance and upscale knowledge exchange and policy impacts from UKRI-funded projects pioneering arts-led, creative and participatory community engagement for climate and flood resilience (Risky Cities, On the Edge, and Arts, He... Read More about HIKE: Risky Cities KE fellowship.

HEIF: Pursuing a Climate Resilient and Net Zero Hull: Academics, Policymakers and Youth Voices Sep 4, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024
HEIF Project

The project focuses on positioning the University of Hull as a community anchor to co-develop and plan for a Climate Ready and Net Zero Hull. It will utilize the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission’s Climate Action Plan and co-dev... Read More about HEIF: Pursuing a Climate Resilient and Net Zero Hull: Academics, Policymakers and Youth Voices.

From Noah to Now: A Cultural History of Flooding in English Coastal and Estuary Communities Apr 1, 2024 - Sep 30, 2025
From Noah to Now charts a centuries-long fascination with flooding and the Noah myth in the literature of England’s coastal and estuary communities across time. It sets this deep cultural history within the context of the heightened flood risks facin... Read More about From Noah to Now: A Cultural History of Flooding in English Coastal and Estuary Communities.

NERC Discipline Hopping: Arts, Culture, Community and Climate Resilience: A Creative Policy Workshop   Dec 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
This project builds on the cultural policy recommendations of the Risky Cities project and the need to address the growing gap between climate resilience and cultural policy.

Community arts groups and cultural organisations across the city of Hul... Read More about NERC Discipline Hopping: Arts, Culture, Community and Climate Resilience: A Creative Policy Workshop  .

NERC Discipline Hopping: Risky Cities Digital Twin Jan 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023

NERC Discipline Hopping: Pursuing a Climate Resilient AND Net Zero Future Mar 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2022
This project aims to bridge the growing gap between Net Zero and Climate Resilience policy.

Climate change is the most urgent societal concern. However, climate policy is typically focused on either climate mitigation (through Net Zero objectives... Read More about NERC Discipline Hopping: Pursuing a Climate Resilient AND Net Zero Future.

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/heritage organisations i... Read More about Arts, Heritage and Liveability: Assessing the effectiveness of community arts and heritage initiatives in Kingston Upon Hull to build urban liveability in precarious places.

Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate Aug 1, 2020 - Nov 30, 2023
https://riskycities.hull.ac.uk/

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... Read More about Risky Cities: Living with water in an uncertain future climate.