events

The main remit of the ISSUES Project is to facilitate better knowledge and one of the ways the ISSUES Team is doing this is through specialised networking events and high level relationship brokering. This page details events and seminars the ISSUES team are involved with, as well as events hosted by the individual SUE consortia.

2011

IMPACT 360: Success Stories from the Sustainable Urban Environment

10th February 2010, Altitude 360, Millbank Tower, London

IMPACT 360° presents research findings from the EPSRC’s £45m Sustainable Urban Environments (SUE) research programme to stimulate discussion amongst the researchers, decision makers, practitioners and policy makers about urban futures, urban sustainability and pathways to achieving impact.

Taking in the panoramic view from the 29th floor of Millbank Tower in central London, IMPACT 360° will focus on a selection of 360° Impact Success Stories, as told by the SUE researchers themselves, set alongside messages from key figures about the importance of ensuring research impacts in the ‘real world’.

Speakers:

>> Peter Heath – Atkins Global
>> Declan Mulkeen -
>> Sir Brian Fender – president of Institution of Knowledge Transfer
>> Dan Epstein - former London 2012 Head of Sustainability

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2010

ISSUES presents 'Brave New City - Snapshots of the Future' in London

24th March 2010, The Institution of Civil Engineers, London

ISSUES hosts its flagship Brave New City event with the Institution of Civil Engineers at ICE headquarters. This invitation only evening event brings together five speakers using film and news clips from the ITN Source archive to describe their visions of the future.

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2009

ISSUES presents 'Brave New City - Snapshots of the Future' in Edinburgh

30th September 2009

ISSUEShosted a 'Moving Conversations' debate at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This invitation only evening event brought together four speakers who used film and news clips from the ITN Source archive to describe their visions of the future.

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ISSUES EVENT: SUE Exchange Group Meeting, London

13th May 2009

TheSUE Exchange Workshop was held in London at the Institution of Structural Engineers. The day long event was centered around dissemination to practitioners, applying KE models to SUE programmes and networking with other SUE researchers about research work and KE.

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2008

ISSUES EVENT: Engaging Stakeholders and Disseminating Results, London

10th November 2008

This event aimed to enable SUE researchers to meet each other and discuss approaches to engagement and dissemination for their research work. It was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

ISSUES EVENT: From the laboratory to action: science and policy-makers, Edinburgh

15th May 2008

This one-day seminar was a part of the Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services seminars held across the UK. This event looked at dissemination for sustainable urban environments.

ISSUES EVENT: Ebbsfleet Valley Challenge

15th and 16th April 2008

This two day event was located at the Ebbsfleet development site in the Thames Valley and provided a platform for discussion between SUE researchers and end users involved in developing Ebbsfleet.

2007

EPSRC-ISSUES SUE Workshop, London

21st September 2007

This joint EPSRC-ISSUES event brought together key representatives of EPSRC'S SUE1 and SUE2 research consortia to present their research and discuss KE.