Please join us for an all staff workshop and research event available to all staff and research students within SPS and colleagues from the wider university community. Organised by the Sociology subject area on behalf of the school, Social and Political Science at Two Degrees is part of the continuing Future Directions series run in Sociology, seeking to foster an active research environment and engagement with pertinent Sociological and Cultural issues.

For the first time last year the earth averaged 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial baseline across a whole year for the first time ever. As well as being a landmark date in human history, it also showed that we are well on target for a world of two degree warming and the severe societal and environmental impacts that entails.

Bringing together colleagues from across SPS, these two days are a chance to get up to speed on the science of climate change and to consider how social scientists are responding. Open sessions in Climate and Media, Energy, Climate and the City, and Climate and Global Health as well as a special session on teaching climate will offer all colleagues and PGRs the chance to learn from one another, network, and consider avenues for research responses.

We are also delighted that Cambridge Chair of Media, Culture and Environment Prof. Jennifer Gabrys will be providing a keynote lecture to round off the event. We hope to see as many of you as possible there.

The two days will be as follows:

Both days are based in JMS 743

Thursday 5 June

9.45 Intro and welcome from Chris Bunn, Sociology Director of Research

10. 00 The State of the Science, Sebastian Mutz (Geography, Glasgow) presents the science of climate change, including audience questions.

11.00 Media and Climate Change.

Glasgow University Media Group researchers discuss the contribution of media studies to climate research.

12. 30 Lunch in Wolfson Medical Atrium

13.45 Climate and the City

Researchers from Urban Studies and IIT Kharagpur (India) discuss urban climate research.

16.00 Keynote by Jennifer Gabrys (Chair of Media, Culture and Environment, Cambridge) – Boyd Orr

LT2.

18.00 Drinks with PGR poster mingle in PGR Hub, 42 Bute Gardens.

Friday 6 June

10.15 Coffee and welcome from Jude Robinson, SPS Director of Research.

10.30 Environment and Global Health

Colleagues from Geography and Social Sciences examine the implications of climate and

environment for health research

12.00 Coffee/Snacks (venue TBC)

12.45 Energy in the Social Sciences.

Colleagues from CEES, Politics and Stellenbosch (SA) discuss the emergence of energy as an object of study.

15.00 Finding Funding

Presentation from grant and funding team on available streams of climate and environment research funding.

16.00 Close, all staff invited for drinks.

Social and Political Sciences at Two Degrees