Signature Research Themes

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Positive Environmental Futures

This Signature Research Theme is about building an innovative, creative and inclusive community that is actively focused on addressing real-world challenges and finding solutions to the urgent environmental issues facing the world today.

Our aim is to facilitate trans-disciplinary work designed to be responsive to environmental challenges and pro-active in its use of collaborative knowledge to affect positive change.

We are interested in understanding environmental challenges, enabling innovative and equitable solutions and delivering change.

Within the ‘Positive Environmental Futures’ umbrella, our aspiration is to nurture active areas of research expertise, provide space for new and emerging collaborative activity to grow and to build inclusive relationships with a range of external partners.

Our focus areas

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Behaviours and values

Young plant be watered with a hose

Horticulture

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Agriculture

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Fisheries

Strawberries growing using hydroponic method

Aquiculture

Recycled everyday items

Circular Systems

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Health and Wellbeing

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Place

Arial view of trees, fields, a farming building, with mountains on the horizon

Landscape

Wind turbines

Natural Resources

Sunset, solar panels and electricity pilons

Future Energy

Woman working on a laptop

Business Models