How will ending poverty impact climate change? A well-being centred approach to energy transitions

Although distributive justice is at the core of the climate challenge, energy transitions research is largely focused on aggregate techno-economic outcomes. How can we re-frame climate mitigation research to incorporate well-being outcomes and preserve development opportunities for those in poverty around the world? In this talk, I will discuss an integrated framework for interdisciplinary research that bridges social sciences with energy-economic models of climate mitigation.

HYBRID EVENT - The Right to Move: Gender and Space in Iranian Cinema

By examining a number of contemporary Iranian films, this paper will present the legal, social, and pollical challenges that woman face in accessing space in Iranian society. These filmic formulations of women’s negotiation of spaces are often inspired from their actual lives. The films allow us to problematise the conventional assumptions of a dichotomous male and female or private and public space in Iranian society. Whilst they reflect the restrictions imposed by the patriarchal structures, they also demonstrate women’s daily resistance to them.

UK Space Command, A Year On

Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey is currently serving as the inaugural commander of UK Space Command. Established on 1 April 2021, Space Command is a Joint Command staffed by all three Services of the Armed Forces, civil servants, and commercial partners. It is responsible for protecting UK and allied interests in space, training and developing the space workforce, and developing space equipment programmes that integrate with various defence capabilities.

Psycho-Social Perspectives Missing from Discussions about the War on Ukraine

Whit has worked at the intersection of conflict and social construction since starting a newspaper in Novosibirsk in 1991, which was intended to cultivate mutual understanding and friendly relations between Russians and Americans. He has worked as a journalist, for the Australian and British ministries of defence, the US State Department, the UN missions in Kosovo and Afghanistan (about both of which he published books) and for research organisations.
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