Discipline Hopping (DH) for Discovery Science
Lead Research Organisation:
University of East Anglia
Department Name: Environmental Sciences
Abstract
UEA is working to push the boundaries of interdisciplinary environmental research. Through the ClimateUEA initiative we are working to fully integrate arts, humanities, science and social science approaches to address the growing climate and biodiversity emergency. As part of our interdisciplinary ethos, we have been identifying exciting new spaces for research and our expectation is that the next round of NERC Discipline Hopping for Discovery Science projects will permit us to catalyse multidisciplinary collaborations for high levels of impact.
UEA's previous NERC Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions (https://www.uea.ac.uk/climate/discipline-hopping) award supported four projects in a flexible and responsive manner allowing us to explore global heritage solutions by mapping the vulnerability of UNESCO World Heritage Sites from sea-level rise; discover the impact of climate change on water from a multidisciplinary perspective; show how we can harness creative writing to empower conversations on the climate crisis; and brought together the language of science and the science of language, building post-graduate science student capability through narrative workshops and training.
UEA's previous NERC Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions (https://www.uea.ac.uk/climate/discipline-hopping) award supported four projects in a flexible and responsive manner allowing us to explore global heritage solutions by mapping the vulnerability of UNESCO World Heritage Sites from sea-level rise; discover the impact of climate change on water from a multidisciplinary perspective; show how we can harness creative writing to empower conversations on the climate crisis; and brought together the language of science and the science of language, building post-graduate science student capability through narrative workshops and training.
Organisations
Publications
Hernández M
(2023)
Identification of diverse antibiotic resistant bacteria in agricultural soil with H218O stable isotope probing combined with high-throughput sequencing.
in Environmental microbiome
| Description | Exploring antimicrobial resistance in Arctic soils at the forefront of climate change Project PI: Dr Marcela Hernández; CO PI's: Prof Colin Murrell, Dr James Bradley (QMUL, UK); Researcher Co-I: Dr Shamik Roy. The main objectives of this work were to study whether the forefield of retreating glaciers harbours antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, and if so, what their abundance and distribution is. Integrating environmental risk into financial risk Project PI: Dr Patrycja Klusak The project's objectives are to integrate scientific measures of environmental risk into mainstream measures of financial risk. Dr Klusak aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to interrogate credit ratings and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics to expose greenwash, identify important omissions. Outputs: Funding from Discipline hopping grant allowed me to purchase 2 novel datasets on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures and resulted in 7 academic collaborations, 2 new affiliations, helped creating one Research Assistant post, resulted in one submitted article for a peer reviewed journal, 7 working papers involving new and existing PhD students, and one PhD SENSS funding application Seed funding a climate change stories repository - the Critical Decade Project PI: Dr Mark Tebboth; CO PI's: Prof Jean McNeil and Prof Corinne Le Quéré The project aimed to build the storytelling capacity of PhD students whose research focuses on climate change. The grant funded activities to enable the collection of narratives that are being created through the students' research and will ultimately establish a real-time repository of unique climate stories, captured through the research process, that builds over time as students fan out across the world. These stories will become the foundation of an ongoing archive of cutting-edge climate stories that draws on UEA's unique position as a centre of excellence for climate research and creative writing. |
| Exploitation Route | I;m not sure. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy Education Environment |
| Description | Climate narrative pedagogies Project PI: Prof John Gordon; CO PI's: Prof Steve Waters, Mrs Amanda Bell, Mrs Alison Bayton, Dr James Craske. Prof Gordon and team used part of the NERC DH grant allocated to this project to discipline-hop between the fields of Education research and other academic disciplines engaging with 'climate narratives'. The project aims to pilot networking for teachers to join UEA researchers, environmental professionals and arts practitioners in knowledge transfer activities to identify how sustainability pedagogies can traverse disciplines and the school/university transition for students. The project will bring colleagues together at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen to share expertise and identify the shape, focus and strategies needed in 'disciplinary hopping' pedagogies with a focus on climate narratives. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Creative Economy |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal |