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The University of ÌÇÐÄTV welcomed its first cohort of early career researchers to its newly developed Sustainability Training School (warwick.ac.uk). The training school was created by the university’s Institute for Global Sustainable Development (warwick.ac.uk)in partnership with EUTOPIA (warwick.ac.uk), a university alliance that brings together 10 European universities, including , and .

The ECR STS 1.0 pioneered a transdisciplinary way of training the next generation of scientists to work conjointly towards solving global planetary problems. This year’s focus was ‘Resilience and Sustainable Development’.

On Monday 3rd July, Dr Vangelis Pitidis was invited to present his insights and experience in conducting interdisciplinary research with PhD students from across the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, in the context of Day 1 of the Doctoral College FestivalLink opens in a new window that takes place between 3-4 July at Faculty of Arts Building. Dr Pitidis's presentation 'Tackling global sustainability challenges with interdisciplinary skills' focused on personal interpretations of interdisciplinary research as well as challenges in conducting such research on the field, providing a short summary of previous interdisciplinary projects in the Global South Dr Pitidis has participated in.

This two day workshop led by Dr.Vangelis Pitidis was attended by academics and policy makers from UK, Greece and Brazil. It focused on the co-production of knowledge with communities through the process of dialogue built on trust building, reciprocity and co-creation. The key goal of this workshop is to bring in multiple stakeholders to influence policy at the local level first.

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The following paper that features Dr Herizo Andrianandrasana (IGSD’s Research Fellow) has just been released for publication - it is open access.

Fraisl, D, See, L, Campbell, J, Danielsen, F and Andrianandrasana, TH. 2023. The Contributions of Citizen Science to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Other International Agreements and Frameworks. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1): 27, pp. 1–6. DOI:

This article refers to the recent paper Participatory Ecological Monitoring (PEM): Participatory research methods for sustainability - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 31(4): 231–233. DOI: published in GAIA journal in Dec 2022.

The WRAP (ÌÇÐÄTV Research Archive Portal) is already updated.

Great thanks to GSD/IGSD researchers who contributed to the review: Dr Jess Savage, Dr Camilla Audia, Dr Malesios Chrysovalantis

The last two weeks our ÌÇÐÄTV colleagues Dr Herizo Andrianadrasana, Dr Jess Savage and Dr Chris Malesios have been visiting Madagascar to explore the impact of migration dynamics on the sustainable management of areas of high biodiversity value. The fieldwork is part of the project Migration & Management of Protected Areas, funded by the University of ÌÇÐÄTV. It aims to unravel social-ecological complexities potentially linking poverty and deforestation and co-design of policy pathways with local stakeholders towards more effective and sustainable management of protected areas in the region. Through a number of workshops and meetings the research team, in collaboration with local partners, have been collecting data to understand people's insights and produce clear findings that can inform future policy decisions in one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots.