Eirini Sampson, a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Policy, co-founded the Sustainability Future Toolkit – an online resource that helps future-proof the careers of students looking to be part of the critical green transition. From helping students develop ‘green skills’ to learning about how to enter specific industries, she explains how her toolkit prepares students for a sustainable job market.
Postdoctoral researcher in the Space and Atmospheric Physics group, Adrian LaMoury, delves deep into the science of auroras and the future of forecasting space weather.
“Any chance of northern lights in Cambridge tonight? Saw a dubious tweet”
This was the message I received from a friend on the evening of 10 May 2024. I replied that it was their best chance in years.
The Georgina Mace Centre (GMC) Living Planet Debate recently brought together leading biodiversity experts and policymakers to discuss just how effective international treaties and targets actually were in communicating the current global biodiversity crises.
Are goals like ’30 by 30’ – the global commitment to designate 30% of Earth’s land and ocean area as protected areas by 2030 – useful in conveying the urgency of conservation efforts and capturing the science underpinning biodiversity?
Here are our five takeaways from this year’s GMC debate, which is now available to watch on Youtube.
PhD student Zhenna Azimrayat Andrews breaks down how marine life, alongside ambitious plastic pollution reduction goals, can help us eliminate microplastics from surface oceans.
This story begins in the 1950s, when plastics began to be produced commercially at a large scale. Each and every piece that was produced from that era onwards still exists in some capacity today. The convenience and wide range of applicability of plastic revolutionised consumption patterns for modern society, however, we are now facing the consequences of our resource-inefficient, linear plastic economy.
Elsy Milan talks about her first days as a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) at Imperial College London. She works on policies that would create sufficient demand for the market uptake of carbon capture, uptake and storage technologies.
From 8-15 June 2024, the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London organised a Learning and Design Lab in Nairobi, Kenya, involving 8 students from Imperial and 12 from Strathmore University. The five-day co-creation lab aimed to develop specific design solutions for an e-waste management challenge posed by the WEEE Centre, a social enterprise specialising in sustainable e-waste management in Africa.
Dr William (Bill) Sheate is an Emeritus Reader in the Centre for Environmental Policy. He lectured and published in environmental impact assessment for over 40 years, before transitioning into therapy. He is now a cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist, specialising in anxiety and stress, particularly in higher education as well as in eco-anxiety.
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week (13-19 May 2024) and Dr William Sheate – our ‘resident’ therapist – suggests these 12 simple steps to mindfulness. Mastering mindfulness is a key technique in helping to reduce anxiety but is surprisingly simple to do, if you understand these basic principles.
For this International Creativity Day (21 April), PhD student Vanessa Madu reflects on the importance of extracurricular STEM clubs in promoting passion for science and mathematics in young students.
PhD student Jarmo Kikstra from the Centre for Environmental Policy reflects on the challenges of defining a just transition away from fossil fuels. His research as part of the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP at the Grantham Institute helps quantify elements of climate justice.
Mona Alizadeh is an undergraduate student from the Department of Physics. She spent the summer doing research at the MAST-U reactor in Culham, as part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme at Imperial. Here, she writes about the science behind her research.
