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HIKE: The Water Cultures Hull-Utrecht Symposium: Living with Risk, Learning through Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange

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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 Complete
Value £2,271.00
Project Dates Aug 9, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025


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