Dr Ed Brookes E.Brookes@hull.ac.uk
Research Fellow
HIKE: The Water Cultures Hull-Utrecht Symposium: Living with Risk, Learning through Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange
People Involved
Professor Stewart Mottram S.Mottram@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Literature and Environment
Project Description
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 symposium has been jointly organized for 8 September 2023 by colleagues at Utrecht University and PI Mottram/ Co-I Brookes at Hull as part of a developing Hull-Utrecht collaboration between the Risky Cities team at Hull, colleagues at Utrecht Centre for Environmental Humanities who research water cultures and histories of water risk from an international (non-UK) context, and community practitioners in the Netherlands who share the Risky Cities team's vision to co-create creative responses to water risks with at-risk communities.
The Water Cultures symposium has four key objectives:
1) to share knowledge with scholars and practitioners in the Netherlands and widen the impact reach of Risky Cities research to overseas audiences.
2) to create and consolidate a cross-cultural network of water risk scholars and practitioners in Hull/Humber and Utrecht/Central Netherlands. Output 1: a network map and vision document for future Hull-Utrecht collaborations.
3) to co-author and publish policy recommendations arising from the symposium exploring how cross-cultural scholar-practitioner collaborations can help risky cities like Hull and Utrecht become more water risk aware in future. Output 2: UNU-WIDERAngle blogpost on creative/community climate interventions for more sustainable cities. UNU-WIDER is a research/policy forum for knowledge sharing surrounding the implementation of the UN's 17 SDGs.
4) to use the cross-cultural network established as objective 2 above to support a collaborative Hull-Utrecht networking bid submitted to the AHRC's new Curiosity Awards scheme (max award £100k) in spring 2024. Output 3: UoH-led AHRC Curiosity Award bid.
To support the above, we would like to send three researchers to Utrecht between 7-9 September 2023 to attend, present, and network at the symposium. We are therefore requesting funds for travel, accommodation, and subsistence (travelling via Eurostar from Hull to Utrecht).
| Status | Project Live |
|---|---|
| Funder(s) | Arts & Humanities Research Council |
| Value | £2,271.00 |
| Project Dates | Aug 9, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025 |
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