The Sustainability Steering Group invites colleagues to attend a blended research showcase event to be held on Thursday, 21st July 2022, 13.00pm-17.00pm, in ATB3116 Lecture Theatre on the theme of ‘Sustainability: Between Research, Teaching, and Future Visions’ broadly construed.

There will be light refreshments provided at 12:30 before the event in ATB3115, followed by a buffet and networking opportunity after the Showcase.

This Research Showcase event is both internally- and externally-facing, and aims to capture a snapshot of Sustainability research at and around the institution in order to future networking and future collaborations, as well as to provide a baseline from which to develop a strategic university agenda on this research topic.

According to the definition proposed by the World Commission on Environment and Development, ‘Sustainability’ is development that ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. It conventionally encompasses multidisciplinary areas of research and technology dealing with, but not limited to: green science, biological evolution and human ecology, natural resources, water and planetary health, clean and efficient energy usage, eco-design, land use and the built environment, responsible management, circular economy, smart and delocalized production, sustainable supply chains, ecological justice, and social innovation.

As a community of scholars and active researchers, the University of Lincoln recognises the need to increase its efforts in presenting the concepts and discussing the issues that underpin Sustainability, as well as for collecting experiences that, either directly or indirectly, contribute to broadening dissemination and debate around Sustainability matters.