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Students from the University of East Anglia (UEA) have won a national competition to improve the image of the energy sector - with tea and biscuits. The team of four triumphed at the RWE npower Energy Challenge, an annual inter-university competition to find the brightest young minds in the UK. Finalists were asked how energy providers can engage more positively with their customers using existing and emerging technologies. The UEA team proposed a range of measures providing...

3S is pleased to welcome its first international visiting PhD student Charlotte Jensen. Charlotte is from Aalborg University Copenhagen in Denmark, and her PhD is part of a research alliance called Enabling and Governing Transitions towards a Low Carbon Society. Specifically, she researches social practices in energy related transitions, with focus on changes in domestic electrical lighting. Charlotte has been inspired by some core 3S work developed by Tom Hargreaves , Noel ...

Around half of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The seasonally flooded grasslands around the Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, are of great importance for biodiversity and a refuge for 11 globally-threatened bird species. They are also a vital fishing, grazing, and traditional rice farming resource for around 1.1 million people. Research published today in the...

Gill Seyfang is one of a core faculty team teaching about Grassroots Innovations and Sustainability Transitions at the Second Annual Summer Institute in New Economics hosted by the Wingspread Retreat Center, Wind Point, WI (USA) August 12-18, 2013. Dire ecological news and the failures of the global economy are fuelling interest in a “new economics” grounded in principles of ecological sustainability, the democratization of wealth, community empowerment and social and digital...

Amy McDougall, a postgraduate research student at the University of East Anglia (UEA) will attend Parliament to present her science to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges as part of SET for Britain on March 18. Amy’s poster on research about predicting the impact of climate change on species will be judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national competition of its kind. The student from UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences was shortlisted...

Current approaches to deer management are failing to control a serious and growing problem, according to new research by the University of East Anglia. Researchers drove more than 1140 miles at night and used thermal imaging and night vision equipment to quantify the population of roe and muntjac deer in a unique study spanning the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. The results, published today in the  Journal of Wildlife Management , show for the first time that present...

A new project to find out why storks are changing their migratory patterns has been launched by the University of East Anglia. Photo: UEA-BTO white-stork project  In folklore, storks’ strong white wings would carry babies to parents around the world. But since the mid 1980s increasing numbers of storks have stopped their annual migration from Northern Europe to Africa for the winter. Instead, many are living in Spain and Portugal the whole year round – feeding on...

This coming July a team of UEA oceanographers will have an exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition ( http://royalsociety.org/summer-science/ ). This exhibit, titled 'A Pinch of Salt', will focus on the role that salt has in driving ocean currents and determining climate both in the UK and worldwide. They will also show off some of their cutting edge research, and there will be fun games, challenges and prizes for all. To see more, check out the blog (...

At the end of the month Professorial Fellow Peter Liss will be leaving for his first 3-month period as Eminent Scholar at the Texas A & M University Institute for Advanced Studies. Of the first six scholars he is the only one from outside the USA. While in Texas he will be conducting research on the reactivity of atmospheric ozone with components in seawater important for marine life. At the inauguration ceremony at the end of January, each of the scholars was presented with a bust (as...

A new series of publications aims to spark debate in environmental social science by bringing fresh thinking and cutting-edge research to a public audience. The 3S Research Group brings together 33 academics in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, and was established in 2011. Its work focuses on critical social science approaches to researching the social and political dimensions of environment and sustainability issues. Launched in 2012, the 3S...