To Environmental Intelligence and Beyond (EIB)
To Environmental Intelligence and Beyond! (EIB25)
A free four-day event that provides vital skills, experience and networking opportunities to accelerate the impact of students research.
The purpose of postgraduate research is to generate new knowledge. Environmental intelligence is the production of new knowledge that has relevance to the climate and ecological crisis. During EIB25, skills and technical workshops were run in conjunction with sessions that focused on real-world sustainability challenges. EIB25 was delivered in partnership with internal and external organisations including Uplift, who set environment and sustainability challenges tied to their core missions.
Interdisciplinary teams developed solutions, following principles of design thinking to achieve effective outcomes. Outputs might be tools, apps, data insights, literature reviews, or policy recommendations. While the event is hosted by the UKRI AI CDT in Environmental Intelligence, with a focus on data/AI, there is room for many disciplinary backgrounds and approaches to problem-solving.
Attendees work intensively in teams on their solutions, but also share social events, creativity and team spirit. Passionate people (students, researchers, professionals) with skills and interests in the environment, data science, and responsible innovation, take part and collaborate with us and our partners. This is a free event organised by the UKRI CDT in Environmental Intelligence and included lunch and refreshments each day, social events, and dedicated event and collaboration space. For more information please contact: ei@exeter.ac.uk
Skills workshops topics included:
- Effective writing: how to write for a general & academic audiences; how to get published
- Effective public speaking: building confidence; understanding audiences
- Identifying motivations and purpose; how to connect your interest with impact
- Getting things done; effective management & increasing your productivity
- Engagement via film; practical skills development for film making
Technical workshops includes:
- Computer vision
- Graphical representation of data with R
- GIS
- Data wrangling
- Python
External partners