Thematic tags: Environment

  • During the early modern period, to go for a walk was a recreational activity, but it was also to literally re-create oneself. Heating the body up and opening the pores enabled the evacuation of superfluous humours, with profound physiological effects …

  • The world’s oceans are increasingly at the forefront of environmentalist narratives, whether through images of arctic melt, vast garbage gyres, or sprawling oil spills. But they are more than a mere archive of anthropogenic harm. In addition, the seas bear …

  • What did the project involve? 

    This project sought to bring a group of city partners together to consider an identified knowledge gap around the role of citizen-to-citizen engagement in responding to the climate and ecological emergencies. In particular, this Ideas …

  • Children’s connection with nature is considered important for improving wellbeing and encouraging pro-environmental behaviours at a time of planetary crisis. However, the impact of directives to ‘stay at home’ during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns over children’s health, development, …

  • Climate change is an interdisciplinary, multifaceted and complex phenomenon, qualities that can also make it challenging to consider across secondary school curricula and environments. The emotional, ethical, social and political facets often found in debates and discussions around climate change …

  • This project starts from a recognition that human separability from land and other species can be seen as one of the primary causes of our climate, ecological, mental and physical health crisis. The researchers will build upon the idea that …

  • Supporting migrants in processing traumatic memories has been at the forefront of policy priorities since the beginning of the migrant crisis. Discussions tend to develop medicalized and pathologizing approaches to trauma, focusing on first generation migrants’ memories of life-threatening experiences …

  • While using a washing-machine is a highly routinised domestic practice, its environmental implications have extensive detrimental environmental effects. Washing machines require high inputs of energy, water and detergents; leaching chemicals and microplastics into the environment through waste water effluent. At …