Environment
The circular economy hack_dif hackathon: three venues, three continents, one 48 hour challenge…
Last Friday afternoon our Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D) was one of three locations, on three different continents, playing host to designers, researchers, innovators and engineers who united to try and solve a circular ...
Water and sanitation – why community is so important
Today we attended Buckingham Palace to pick up a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our research into water and sanitation. It is a real privilege to be recognised in this way, but what is most rewarding ...
Make smart connected products better for our future circular economy
Do you have ideas to help make the things we use work better for us and help the environment? Could you make them a reality with the help of an international team located on three ...
Fatbergs in our sewers – are modern culinary habits to blame?
Food is crucial in our life. Since the Neolithic period, our eating habits have dramatically evolved. Early man lived a nomadic life, hunting and picking fruits and vegetables. The revolution in our ancestors’ lifestyles came ...
Flooding in the Aire: why we can reduce floods in the UK
As a researcher looking at sediment transport and storage in the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme, I need rain. Rain causes surface runoff and runoff causes erosion, which eventually results in sediment transported towards and within the river. When I ...
Drones in the Cumbria skies: the floods of Christmas
Christmas 2015 will not be remembered as a white Christmas, but as a wet one. The media was full of images of the homes ruined by floods, particularly in Cumbria, as a result of winter ...