Past events

28 Sep

11th Oxford energy Day

The 11th Oxford Energy Day will take place on Thursday 28th September 2023. This year’s Oxford Energy Day will focus on Energy and Innovation. The day’s presentations and collaborations will examine diverse aspects of innovation and will consider how energy research at the University of Oxford Energy research provides solutions and the evidence to inform policy and action to deliver the [...]

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23 Sep

Changing Urban Transport: Why Oxford and Other UK Cities Are Experimenting With Controversial Policies

Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford )

Tim’s research concentrates on the geographies of the everyday mobilities of people, goods and information. It is international in outlook, interdisciplinary in scope, informed by the thinking in various sub-disciplines within Geography, and organised around five more general concerns: Low-carbon mobilities and cities – innovation and experimentation, transformations, politics and governance, justice; Futures and temporality – sociotechnical transitions, path dependency, [...]

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20 Sep

Learning across global regions: Comparing climate marketcraft in developing countries

Dr Jose Maria Valenzuela, University of Oxford

Local climate action benefits from learning across national cases, as there are valuable opportunities to look at recent experiences on policy and institutional design, and implementation. Novel experiences of economic reconfiguration and innovation in developing countries are rarely taken as models for extrapolation, and when comparisons occur amongst developing countries, these are mostly within regions. In this Oxford Net Zero [...]

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19 Sep

Oxford Energy Innovation Forum

On Tuesday 19 September 2023 (09:30 – 17:00), we will be hosting an open, in-person innovation forum at the King’s Centre in Oxford. The day will start with a SSEN-hosted in-person tour, visiting elements of Project LEO and TRANSITION across Osney Island. This will be followed by presentations on similar, flexibility-focused innovation projects from other distribution networks. Please find the agenda here. Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire) has [...]

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10 Jul

Agile Initiative Summer School – Oxford Martin School 10-14 July 2023

The Agile Initiative at the Oxford Martin School will run a residential Summer School 10-14 July 2023. Open to interdisciplinary researchers working on challenges relating to both policy and environmental science. Guided by experts including Charles Godfray, Sarah Whatmore and Sam Fankhauser. There are fifty places for UK-based post-doctoral, PhD, DPhil and MPhil researchers in the field. Details (including subsidised [...]

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23 Jun

Is Net Zero Development Possible? – 6th Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture

Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia

The dangers of climate change are now well communicated and widely understood. However, the willingness to take tough policy decisions is lacking, especially where there are concerns around how they could impact economic growth. In this year’s Fernando lecture, one of India’s leading economists and former civil servants, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia will discuss the key policies that are required to [...]

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23 Jun

SCOLMA – Conference – Call for papers – Africa and the Environment Archives and Data in the Climate Emergency

A one-day conference at SOAS, London and online CALL FOR PAPERS SCOLMA conference 2023 Call for Papers final.pdf Africa’s natural environment is rich and diverse, ranging from its wildlife and plants to its land and resources. It is also one of the continents most severely affected by climate change, with increasingly erratic weather events adversely impacting biodiversity, agriculture and those living there. This conference [...]

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