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2 May 202416:00

SCI Project Showcase Series: Gene Drive Mosquitoes

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1 May 202414:00

GSI Seminar Series - Dr Ellen Wiles 'Literary Activism in a Climate and Biodiversity Crisis'

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29 April 202413:30

SCI Project Showcase Series: Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health?

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25 April 202414:00

Joint IDSAI/GSI Early Career Lightning Talks

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24 April 202414:00

GSI Media Training Session 1

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24 April 202412:30

IDSAI/Business School Research Seminar: 'Collaboration and Conflict in Human-Human and Human-Machine Teams' with Professor Taha Yasseri

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17 April 202414:00

IDSAI Research Seminar: 'SQL and Large Language Models: A Marriage Made in Heaven?' with Professor Paolo Papotti

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17 - 19 April 20249:15

Understanding Life in a Changing Planet: 20+2 Years of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences

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12 April 202414:00

Neurocognition, Language and Visual Processing Group Seminar with Dr Marten van Schijndel

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10 April 202414:00

GSI Seminar Series – Tarje Nissen-Meyer ‘Of earthquakes, elephants and earthworms: Towards scalable geophysical monitoring of complex ecosystems’

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2 April 202415:00

The First Neurocognition, Language and Visual Processing Group Seminar with Professor Dr Lilian-Cristine Hübner

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27 March 202416:00

GSI Seminar: GSI Reports at COP28 - Investing in Infrastructure for Climate Resilience across Africa

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27 March 202413:00

Climate Change and Health Wikipedia Workshop

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25 March 202413:00

Adventures in Global Vegetation Modelling

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25 March 202410:30

Restoring habitats for carbon storage and biodiversity

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20 March 202414:00

GSI Assembly

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19 March 202412:00

SCI Project Showcase Series: Students' use of Mathematics in Science

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13 March 202414:00

IDSAI Research Seminar: 'Studying emotions at individual and collective levels' with Professor David Garcia

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13 March 202413:30

GSI Seminar - Simon Sharpe: Economics and Diplomacy of Climate Action

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13 March 202412:30

Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2)/IDSAI - Joint Seminar

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7 March 202414:30

IDSAI Seminar with Dr Alden Conner: 'Creating sustainable research tools with real-world applications - lessons from the Alan Turing Institute’s Environment and Sustainability Grand Challenge'

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29 February 202413:00

SCI Project Showcase Series: Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production (1860s to 1930s and today)

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28 February 202416:00

GSI Seminar: GSI Reports at COP28 – Global Tipping Points Report part 2. Follow-on discussion

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27 February 202415:00

Digital Co-Production Oracle Launch Workshop

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21 February 202414:00

IDSAI Research Seminar: 'Using large language models to help people find agreement' with Professor Chris Summerfield, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford

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21 February 202414:00

Creative writing workshop: Make your voice count at COP29, Azerbaijan

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19 February 202415:30

EGENIS/GSI seminar: "Un/doing Time in the Anthropocene", Fiona Schrading (Art Academy Düsseldorf)

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7 February 202416:00

GSI Reports at COP28 - Global Tipping Points Report

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7 February 202412:30

IDSAI Research Seminar with Professor Dr Markus Strohmaier, Chair of Data Science in the Economic & Social Sciences, University of Mannheim

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31 January 202416:00

GSI Reports at COP 28 -The Global Carbon Budget 2023

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31 January 202411:00

GSI Seminar: Hydrogeological disasters in the city of São Sebastião in the northern coast of the state of São Paulo in February 2023

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25 January 202413:30

SPRINT EDITATHON

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24 January 202416:00

Meet the GSI directors - an opportunity for ECRs and PGRs to find out more about the GSI

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24 January 202412:30

IDSAI Research Seminar with Dr Livio Fenga, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter Business School

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19 January 202414:30

Towards applications of reinforcement learning in continuous environments with Professor Adam Sobey

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17 January 202416:00

GSI Seminar - How to people-power our universities: How networked people's assemblies can help transform academia, Jordan Raine

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12 January 202412:30

SPRINT EDITATHON

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7 December 202315:30

IDSAI ECRN Christmas Lightning Talks!!

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29 November 202314:00

GSI Seminar: Art and Agency: Eco-anxiety and creative responses to the climate and ecological emergency

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29 November 202312:00

Finding the Way to better Research Culture: Improving Retention and Success of Academics from Underrepresented Backgrounds

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22 November 202316:30

Wikipedia Editathon

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22 November 202316:00

GSI Seminar - How dreams, science & volcanoes can help us enrich environmental intelligence by Ernesto Schwartz-Marin

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22 November 202312:30

Mapping sub-ice geomorphology and constraining Greenland Ice Sheet history using machine learning by Dr Guy Paxman, Durham University

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15 November 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Imagining the near future: a diagnosis from recent fiction. Professor David Sergeant

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10 November 202311:00

Environmental Data Science and AI

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9 November 202317:45

In conversation with George Monbiot on the role of universities in a time of climate and ecological crisis

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25 October 202312:00

Wikipedia editathon with the ESI

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18 October 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Oscar Kennedy Blundell: UK peatland pyrogenic carbon characteristics and degradation trends

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12 October 202312:00

IDSAI/Turing Showcase

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11 October 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Daniel Duzdevich: The origin of life and evolution, and a deep biological perspective on planetary crises

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6 October 20239:30

Hacktoberfest Hackathon Event in Exeter!

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14 September 202310:30

EnigmaAI: Unveiling the Intelligence behind Optimisation & Machine Learning

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7 September 202310:30

British Science Festival: 7-10 September 2023

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4 - 15 September 20239:00

Turing/Exeter Data Study Group

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20 July 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Luiz Aragao - Amazon forest research using Earth Observation data

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18 July 202314:00

ChatGPT and the Future of Society

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21 June 202314:00

GSI Seminar: Still Crazy after all these Years’. ‘70 years of sticking it to the System’

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14 June 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Timothy Woods

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7 June 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Nick Watts

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26 May 202318:30

Sustainable and Just Food Transitions in Times of Uncertainty

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25 May 202311:30

The Global Growth of Climate Change Litigation

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12 May 202314:00

How to train our future leaders - a panel conversation

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10 May 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Dr. Esteban Acevedo-Trejos

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3 May 202314:00

GSI Seminar - Virginia Thomas

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26 April 202312:00

Climate Storytelling - A Catalyst for Climate Action and Solutions

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20 - 21 April 2023TBC

Machine Learning for Earth Observation with the Environmental Intelligence Network

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29 March 202315:30

Edit for Climate Change

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29 March 202314:00

GSI Seminar: Architectures of Climate Justice at GSI - Ashish Ghadiali

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24 March 202315:00

GSI Seminar: Emma Johanna Puranen, St Leonards' Interdisciplinary Doctoral Scholar, University of St Andrews

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15 March 202314:00

GSI Seminar: Audrey Wagner - Nature-based Solutions for the climate change and biodiversity nexus

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14 March 202311:30

GSI Engagement and Policy Network: In Conversation with Olivia Lazard

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10 March 202312:30

GSI Seminar: Economics and Diplomacy of Climate Action - Simon Sharpe

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8 March 202314:00

GSI Seminar: Positive Tipping Points in Practice - Student Activism. Emma de Saram

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23 February 202315:30

Edit for Climate Change

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26 January 202316:00

Learn how to edit Wikipedia at this event and improve open source climate change knowledge!

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18 January 202314:00

GSI Seminar Series : Natalie Whitehead, Exeter Science Centre: Engaging the public to change the world: The crucial role of science centres in creating global citizens

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11 January 202314:00

Economic Measurement for Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Assets and Services

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14 December 202214:00

GSI Seminar Series: Can seaweed farming provide more than just food? and Where and how to plant trees for Net Zero

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7 December 202214:00

GSI Seminar Series: What is land for? Scenarios of future land use in the UK

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30 November 202214:00

GSI Seminar Series : White-Tailed Eagle Reintroduction to Southern England

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24 November 202218:30

Green Futures: Positive Tipping Points in Practice: Doughnut Economics

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23 November 202214:00

Learn the ways of the Co-Production Oracle!

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16 November 202216:00

Green Futures: Positive Tipping Points in Practice: Climate-Positive Business

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2 November 202215:00

GSI Seminar - Channel your research onto open knowledge platforms: Introducing GSI’s new Wikimedia Climate Partnership

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1 November 202218:30

Green Futures: Positive Tipping Points in Practice: Social Movements

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26 October 202218:30

Positive Tipping Points in Practice: Food Systems

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19 October 202214:00

GSI Seminar Series: Hope and Community: South Scotland’s biggest community land- buy out

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18 October 202218:30

Positive Tipping Points in Practice: Climate Justice

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13 October 202215:30

Positive Tipping Points in Practice: Student Activism

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11 October 202213:00

Climate Adaptation Community of Practice: Heat

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5 October 202214:00

Joint GSI and Astrophysics Seminar : The Earth: Evolution of a Habitable Planet

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28 September 202215:00

A Hot Topic: Exploring the social dimensions of the climate crisis

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24 September 202219:30

Showcase of a new play exploring the story of James Lovelock’s Gaia theory

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12 - 14 September 202212:00

Tipping Points - From Climate Crisis to Positive Transformation

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28 June 202215:00

GSI Seminar - THE SUNSHINE AND MOBILITY REVOLUTIONS - Professor Harald Røstvik

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28 June 202214:00

Equilibrium series - webinar #4 - Perspectives on Reparation for Loss and Damage

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27 June 202211:00

GSI Annual Lecture 2022

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20 May 202214:00

Equilibrium series - webinar #3 - Intergenerational Inequity of Climate Change

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26 April 202214:00

Equilibrium series webinar #2 - A New Framework for Climate Finance: where grants, concessionary loans and the private sector fit in and where they do not

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4 April 202214:00

GSI Seminar - Degrowth and Ecosocialism

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29 March 202214:00

Towards COP27: Addressing Climate, Cost & Vulnerability

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16 March 202214:00

GSI Seminar - The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions - Kristian Nielsen

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2 March 202214:00

GSI Seminar - A History of Storms – Creative Writing Earth System Project - Ben Smith

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16 February 202214:00

GSI Seminar - What do we (really) talk about when we talk about food?

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9 February 202214:00

GSI Seminar - Global agronomy for transitioning to durable agricultural systems. An example focusing on P resource trade and country resilience

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2 February 202214:00

GSI Seminar - The Climate Change, Conflict and Migration Nexus - Tabitha Watson

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19 January 202214:00

GSI Seminar - There’s no place like home: Placing Earth in its astronomical and geological contexts

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15 December 202114:00

GSI Seminar - The off-grid city: experimenting with solar microgrids in an informal settlement in Cape Town

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9 December 202119:00

Climate Change Theatre Action

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1 December 202114:00

GSI Seminar - Scott Davidson POSTPONED

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25 November 202114:00

GSI Seminar - How everyday images and computer vision are shaping (un)imaginaries of climate change: The case of Google Images

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17 November 202114:00

GSI Seminar - Are local climate emergency declarations leading to transformation in the politics of climate change?

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8 November 202113:00

Protecting People and Planet

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4 November 202113:00

The Race to Zero

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3 November 202114:00

GSI Seminar - The Preston Model, Councillor Matthew Brown

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21 October 202114:00

GSI Seminar - Professor Richard Betts

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25 September 202119:30

Futures2021: Creative responses to climate change

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22 September 202113:00

How can we clean up our energy?

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13 September 202117:00

Leverhulme Lecture: Professor Stephen Gardiner - Generationally Parochial Geoengineering

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15 July 202114:15

The Politics of Climate Change

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8 July 202114:00

Tipping Points for Food and Land Use Transformation Workshop

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16 June 202114:00

GSI Seminar: Dr Chris Boulton - Case Studies of Resilience

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9 June 202114:00

GSI Seminar: Dr. Kimberly Nicholas: Book Discussion: ‘Under the Sky we Make’

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2 June 202114:00

GSI Seminar Series: Prof. Patrick Devine-Wright, Citizens Climate Assemblies – a social tipping point toward radical climate response?

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26 May 202114:00

GSI Seminar Series: Science for Adaptation and Resilience Action – a development perspective: Dr Kirsty Lewis

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19 May 202114:00

GSI Seminar Series: Laurie Laybourn-Langton: Entering the storm: the policy and political challenges of the next stage of the environmental crisis

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11 May 202116:00

GSI Seminar Series: Victor O. Leshyk: Philosophy of Science Art; a tool for building science literacy

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5 May 202114:00

GSI Workshop: Positive Tipping Points: Professor Tim Lenton (GSI Director)

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22 April 202117:15

WWF – 'Our Planet: Too Big to Fail' film screening with expert Q&A

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25 March 202119:00

Will the UK lead on Climate and Ecology? The CEE Bill and our future

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17 March 202114:00

GSI Seminar Series: Femke Nijsse ' Emergent constraints on climate sensitivity from historical warming and models' and 'Kirsten Lees ' Peatland Resilience'

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4 March 202112:30

GSI Policy Network and Economics of Energy Innovation and Systems Transition Lecture: Deciding how to decide, to accelerate low carbon transitions

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3 March 202114:00

GSI Seminar - Whodunnit? The Case of the Vanishing Savannas

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22 February 202115:00

IDSAI Seminar: Using ensemble meteorological datasets to overcome limitations in a Bayesian volcanic ash inverse modelling system

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16 February 202116:00

GSI Seminar - The Case for Degrowth

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3 February 202114:00

GSI Seminar - Stratospheric ozone depletion and its impact on climate

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28 January 202113:00

Doing Well By Doing Good. How sustainable business and finance can support economic resilience

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20 January 202114:00

GSI Seminar - Academia, government and media: Exploring the many faces of climate science communication

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10 December 202012:30

Waking up to the planetary health emergency webinar series - Webinar 6

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3 December 202012:30

Waking up to the planetary health emergency webinar series - Webinar 5

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2 December 202014:00

GSI Seminar - Resiliency of Environmental and Social Stocks: an Analysis of the Exogenous COVID-19 Market Crash

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26 November 202012:30

Waking up to the planetary health emergency webinar series - Webinar 4

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19 November 202012:30

Waking up to the planetary health emergency webinar series - Webinar 3

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18 November 202016:00

London Climate Action Week Event - Positive tipping points to net zero and how to finance them

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18 November 202014:00

GSI Seminar - Quantifying environmental sustainability using Life Cycle Assessment

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12 November 202012:30

Waking up to the planetary health emergency webinar series - Webinar 2

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5 November 202012:30

Waking up to the planetary health emergency webinar series - Webinar 1

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4 November 202014:00

GSI Seminar: Health as part of ecological collapse

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21 October 202014:00

GSI Seminar - Exploring the inner loops of the circular economy: Citizen-led initiatives to tackle plastic waste and pollution in SW England

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15 October 202015:00

Women In Climate Network film screening of 'Picture a Scientist'

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7 October 202014:00

GSI Seminar - Pores for thought: Engineering Composites for Hydrogen Energy

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23 September 202014:00

GSI Seminar: Fuels, Faeces, Fertilisers and Fun. A research alliteration with a global outlook

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23 June 202013:00

Build Back Better

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5 March 202011:30

Deciding how to decide to achieve a low carbon transition

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2 - 3 July 201812:15

Global Systems Institute – Creating Transformative Solutions

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