Environmentally-relevant teaching and research | UoP News

Paul Hayes, UPEN Director, would like to invite staff to a series of workshops on thematic areas in environmentally-relevant teaching and research.

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What is UPEN?

The University of Portsmouth Environment Network (UPEN) was established in 2010 to coordinate and promote the diverse array of environmentally relevant teaching and research across the University. 250 staff and research students have engaged in UPEN activities. The network has achieved all of its original objectives and has been particularly effective in raising the profile of the environmental work of the University externally within the region. UPEN continues to be a success story and one that is being emulated in other areas of cross-faculty activity, such as Ageing.

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What are the workshops?

The cross-faculty Steering Group responsible for oversight of the network has recognised that we now need to identify, coordinate and provide leadership for our activities under a small number of broadly drawn thematic areas:

• ?Ecosystem Complexity and Environmental Change
• Environmental Hazards and Engineering
• Sustainable Society

More information about the specialist areas of each theme can be found at www.port.ac.uk/upenthemes.

To take this forward we plan to hold three workshops, one for each theme, at which we will explore and develop these ideas further.

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Who should attend?

We would like as many people as possible to attend these workshops, including those of you who have not previously engaged with UPEN, so please sign up as appropriate for one or more workshop at www.port.ac.uk/upenthemes.

We recognise that the themes are not mutually exclusive and that individuals could contribute to more than one. We are also proposing cross-thematic interest groups, to which those of you who don?t work directly with the environment, but might have approaches or methodologies that could support the themes might like to get involved.

If you would like to know a little more about some of the recent activities across the network, you can read our January newsletter at www.port.ac.uk/upennews.

Source: http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2013/02/07/environmentally-relevant-teaching-and-research/

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