Global Sustainable Development News
Collective SCFS consortium secures new partnership with Coventry City Council to transform local green and blue spaces

Select individuals of our academic team, led by IGSD, will collaborate with Coventry City Council on a new initiative to revitalise the city’s green and blue spaces, following the success of a proposal that secured almost £100K for ÌÇÐÄTV as part of a project worth nearly £1M in total funding for the next three years.
GSD academic awarded £214K grant to aid development of gender-inclusive, climate-friendly and affordable housing

A project co-supervised by a member of our teaching faculty has received significant funding from Innovate UK as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP).
Dr Jonathan Clarke, who leads on our Sustainable Cities and Living with Water undergraduate modules, received the grant as part of a partnership with Professor Juanita Elias (International Political Economy, University of ÌÇÐÄTV) and Reall – a registered charity and not-for-profit company, whose mission is to build affordable housing in urban Africa and Asia.
School for Cross-faculty Studies welcomes Skidmore College scholar for two events on cartography history
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The School for Cross-faculty Studies are hosting visiting scholar and historical cartography expert Professor Jordana Dym, who will also be running two events for ÌÇÐÄTV staff and students on mapping and their significance in South American history.
ÌÇÐÄTV Students Visit Design and Science Summer School in Slovenia

Supported by EUTOPIA funding, between 8th - 12th July 2024 three students from the School for Cross-Faculty Studies (SCFS) attended the fourth Design + Science Summer School.
Hosted by the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in their Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO), the Summer School was structured around various phases of learning.
GSD students visit Brussels for an enriching academic fieldtrip
On 19th-23rd June, as part of a strategic project funded by the ÌÇÐÄTV Innovation Fund and the ÌÇÐÄTV International Partnership Fund, GSD organised a 5-day academic field trip to Brussels, focused on past, present and future global sustainable development challenges and responses in the city.
Nine undergraduates were selected to participate in the trip (and received a bursary for this): five students from our GSD degrees and four students from our partner degree at , in Barcelona.
GSD funding success: Getting creative with sustainability
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Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Clarke and Dr Alastair Smith for their successful applications to the ‘Getting Creative with Sustainability’ funding call!
The 'Getting Creative with Sustainability' funding aims to create the opportunity for local artists and creatives to work with ÌÇÐÄTV researchers and external regional public/third sector organisations, around the broad theme of sustainability. These knowledge exchange-based collaborations will see the three parties involved sharing insights around sustainability research in its broadest sense within the context of the organisation or region. The projects will create a means for researchers, organisations, and creatives to work together via an innovative and creative collaboration, which is designed to stimulate, develop, or cement relationships between ÌÇÐÄTV researchers and regional externals whilst supporting knowledge exchange, research development, impact, and communications.
PhD Scholarships in Global Sustainable Development: Apply Now!
Applications are now open for our PhD scholarships in Global Sustainable Development (GSD) for the academic year 2022/23. The Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships Programme, ‘TRANSFORM: Transformations of Human-Environment Interactions to Sustainable Development’, is led by the GSD Department in the School for Cross-faculty Studies.
Applications close at 12 pm (GMT) on Monday 7 March 2022.
Dr Mandy Sadan awarded Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust
We are delighted to announce that Dr Mandy Sadan, Associate Professor in GSD, has recently been awarded a highly prestigious Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust for her project ‘Flavour in the Making of Modern Britain’. The project will begin in September 2022 and will run for three years.
Funding hat-trick for GSD-led research on land use, conservation, and indigenous livelihoods
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A new stream of grant awards is supporting Dr Marco J Haenssgen, Assistant Professor in GSD, and his collaborators from the GSD Department, ÌÇÐÄTV ÌÇÐÄTV School, Chiang Mai University (Thailand), Monash University Indonesia, and the Université d’Antananarivo (Madagascar). The three awards have a combined total of more than £84,000.



