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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI)
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Interdisciplinary research partnerships generating sustainable solutions to global challenges. Newsletter: http://bit.ly/2yVFYz6, YESI 🎬: https://ow.ly/8u2A50Tz00M
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We’ll share news, events + opps on research tackling today’s biggest environmental challenges. Expect conversations on:

🌱Food, Water + Waste
🌳Resilient Socio-ecological Systems
🌎Environment + Health

Connect, share ideas + collaborate with like-minded individuals. Let’s build a sustainable future!🚀
💸 #FundingFriday

Internally Distributed Funding – Winter Call 2025
📢 Launch postponed to 4 Dec 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 23 Jan 2026

A new ‘Available Funding’ Guide will be published before the call opens. No funding available for research priming.

Full details will appear here:
www.york.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
💸 #FundingFriday

The Green Future Fellowship – Accelerated International Route (GFF AIR) is open for exceptional non-UK applicants developing breakthrough climate solutions.

💰 £3M award
⏳ Deadline: Sept 2027
🌍 For urgent, high-impact, rapid-progress projects.

More info: buff.ly/XPOPUwt
Green Future Fellowships - Accelerated International Route
A new route open to exceptional international researchers and innovators to develop and scale up their breakthrough climate solutions.
raeng.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌱#RetrofitFutures2025 is coming up!

Hear Luke Gooding (SEI York) on how locally rooted One Stop Shops like #YorEnergy can speed up climate action, build trust + make retrofit work for all.

For local authorities, policymakers + practitioners driving York’s 2030 goals.

Sign up: buff.ly/0gORAZX
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
BE@York Seminar: Technology Readiness of Bio-based Construction Materials
📅 Tues 25 Nov 2025, 12–1pm
🎤 Mark Corbett, Biorenewables Development Centre

No booking required. Open to staff + PGRs. 🔗 buff.ly/De5HKcG

Join us to explore the future of sustainable, bio-based materials in construction.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌿 Storytelling as Method for Inclusive + Reciprocal Research Practices – Tues 2 Dec, 11:00–14:00 @york.ac.uk

Join guest speaker Lotte Dijkstra for an outdoor storytelling workshop + hybrid talk on inclusive, place-based research.

Free, open to staff + students. Booking here: 🔗 buff.ly/vBfDpac
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🌍 From Bradford to Belém.

A new blog by Dr Kelli Kennedy + Dr Amy Barnes shows how community-led climate research in Bradford mirrors what #COP30 is demanding: genuine collaboration + local evidence at the heart of climate action.

Local voice → global impact.

Read more: 🔗 buff.ly/Kn8N60y
From Bradford to Belém
Local Evidence Confirms COP30 Calls for Genuine Collaboration is a Net Zero Necessity
www.york.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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📣Calling all researchers & practitioners – join us for a practical webinar to introduce an interactive tool that maps the social science evidence of land managers & woodland creation.

📅 Thursday 4 December, 15:00 - 15:30
💻 Free online session

👉 Register: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/land-ma...
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🎄✨ Join #YESI for a relaxed, drop-in festive get-together.

Mince pies, good company + space to unwind with others passionate about environmental sustainability. 🔗 buff.ly/2a8xXVG

👋 ECR Hour – come share your ideas for future YESI ECR activities.

Festive attire optional but encouraged!
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🌳 InTREEgue Network Monthly Meeting – University Tree Trail Update

Join us Tues 9 Dec, 11 - 12 pm (online) to review progress on the University of York’s Tree Trail project 🌲

We’ll discuss ideas for tags, categories + ways to bring the trail to life — all welcome!

🎟️ Book here: buff.ly/dII7bF6
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Last chance to join us for Rethinking Conservation Strategies in Brazil.

📅Tue 18 Nov
📍hybrid
🔗https://buff.ly/Op2Zun5

Dr Carlos Hugo Rocha will explore what the UK National Park model can teach us about sustainable, community-led land management in Brazil’s vulnerable Campos Gerais Ecoregion
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
💼 #FundingFriday: (Pre-announcement): EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships 2027

This upcoming call will fund ambitious, collaborative research that’s business-led + co-created with academia, driving UK prosperity through innovation, jobs + sustainability.

🔗 buff.ly/v4muL0I
Pre-announcement: EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships 2027
Apply for funding to support ambitious, collaborative research programmes.
www.ukri.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We didn’t win but we had a fabulous and uplifting night at the #THEAwards and we were honoured to be shortlisted in the Environmental Leadership category.

Congratulations to all the inspiring winners and nominees, you’re all amazing 👏👏👏
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#FundingFriday: AHRC-BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026 scheme gives 5 ECRs the chance to work with BBC producers, appear on air + learn how to bring big ideas to the public.

💡Apply by 28 Jan 2026
📻Open to late PhD–8 yrs post-PhD researchers with a passion for storytelling!
🔗 buff.ly/QQqK7Aj
AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026
This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4. They will appear on a number of episodes and shadow the production process to understand…
www.ukri.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Super happy to be nominated for #THEAwards Outstanding Environmental Leadership Award🤞🤞🤞 @york.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Having a fabulous night, 🤞🤞🤞#TheAwards
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🎮 Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder!

Join us Fri 24 Apr 2026 (York) to explore how games can tackle environmental challenges through play — from tabletop to digital and RPGs.

Call for contributions now open (deadline 10 Jan)!

💡 Talks, workshops, world cafés + more.

🔗 buff.ly/zdrsky9
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Really pleased to see the work of Banki Chunwate's work in Nasawara State #Nigeria now published - great insights on community perceptions of the importance of #ecosystem services from gazetted #forests
@yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding community perceptions of the importance of ecosystem services from gazetted forests
Understanding how protected areas support forest community livelihoods is crucial for informing forest conservation and reducing land degradation. This paper evaluates ecosystem services perceived ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🌿 New resource from YESI Knowledge Exchange project & Hey Smile!

Explore our “What do we mean by environmental quality?” infographic — key insights from workshops + interviews across Yorkshire + the Humber 💡

Freely shareable + includes a Padlet for ideas + resources 👇
🔗 buff.ly/JhL8NI6
Environmental quality for nature-based interventions for health | Genially
Want to create interactive content? It’s easy in Genially!
view.genially.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📢 Reminder: Join us Tues 18 Nov, for the next YESI International Fellows Seminar

Rethinking Conservation Strategies in Brazil: Lessons from UK National Parks for the Campos Gerais Ecoregion

📍 ENV/105x, Environment Building (Campus West)
💻 In-person + online

👉 Book your place: buff.ly/Op2Zun5
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Urban green spaces have the potential to mitigate some of the negative effects of urbanisation, delivering broad positive impacts to people, biodiversity & the urban ecosystem. LCAB PhD student Rebecca Morris talks about her project investigating these spaces in LMICs

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
Urban green spaces matter most where people and biodiversity are most vulnerable
As tropical low- and middle-income countries share trends in biodiversity loss, climate risk and rapid urbanisation, green spaces can serve as multifunctional oases in otherwise concrete jungles.
www.york.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Shape the future of the Tropical Ecosystems Network! 🌴

Join us for an interactive in-person workshop to share ideas, plan future events + help guide the Network’s direction.

📅 Thurs 20 Nov 2025

Open to all, but we encourage existing members to come and help shape what’s next! buff.ly/ARGo1nK
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Join us for the next InTREEgue Network meeting (Tue 9 Dec, online) as we grow the University Tree Trail 🌳🌲 👣

We’ll review the tree trail content submitted so far and how to organise it + share project + Festival of Ideas application updates, all welcome!

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/dII7bF6
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎄Join the YESI Community Christmas Celebration!

A relaxed drop-in for @york.ac.uk staff + students passionate about sustainability.

✨ Drinks, mince pies + festive vibes.
🕐 ECR Hour: chat with Judith, Kelly + Oli about future YESI activities.

Festive wear optional but encouraged!🔗 buff.ly/g1py3sQ
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Very excited to be working with some excellent partners across Europe and Africa to strengthen our understanding on the importance of Mountains for navigating future climate, biodiversity and sustainability challenges @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
@yesiuoy.bsky.social
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️

@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social

👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h

#ERCSyG
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM