Environment and sustainability
Our environment is changing at unprecedented speeds and scales and we are rapidly losing the biodiversity, ecosystems, and natural resources that we depend upon. We are responsible for ensuring our environmental resources are protected and maintained for future generations.
The Environment and Sustainability Theme spans multiple disciplines that address the critical challenges we face in this space, with research and policy focused on understanding, monitoring, predicting and managing the environment and its sustainability. Our scope ranges from local ecosystems to the global biosphere, and includes the overarching societal challenges posed by climate change, food production, chemical pollution, and transport.
We aim at studying, conversing and optimising the environment around us: from understanding ecosystems, to exploring the universe; reducing the negative impact of climate change to considering the future of food production and travel.
Theme leads
Get in touch with the theme members by emailing fons-environmentandsustainability-pq@groups.imperial.ac.uk.
Theme leads
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Morena Mills
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Morena is passionate about applied biodiversity conservation research and is interested in improving policy that impacts the persistence of species and people's wellbeing
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Guy Woodward
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Guy's research focuses on quantifying the impacts of stressors (climate change, acidification, eutrophication, species invasions and habitat alteration) on the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems.
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Caroline Howe
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Caroline is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Social Science. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on exploring the relationship between people and nature and how these relationships influence the outcome and success of sustainable development policies through the underpinning interactions between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being.
Coordinating research activities
Support with your grant research proposal
If you need support with your grant proposal writing, please complete the FoNS Research Grant Proposal Support Form. This will allow the strategic research team to understand the type of support you need before they contact you.
Watch our Theme Champions talking on how they can support you with grant applications - Check article and video!
Internal online resources - see our academics talking about funders and review processes
The Environmental and Sustainability theme champions have started collecting short recordings produced by our academics. The aim of these videos is to help our researchers with the writing of grant proposals and get to know more the funders and their review processes. Please have a look at these videos (only for Imperial users):
- NERC Highlight Topics
- BBSRC review process
- Research Funding by Industry
- Panel discussion on large and multidisciplinary grant proposals (75th anniversary of Silwood Park - Env & Sust Theme event)
- More to come - watch this space!
Environment & Sustainability Theme activities
Panel discussion on large grant proposals - event at Silwood Park campus (22 July 2022)
Read Dr Adam Sykulski's blog about the Environment and Sustainability theme event at Silwood Park. He reflects on why he attended the event, what he took away – valuable information about funding strategies, grant applications and potential collaborators – and reasons why researchers at all career stages should engage - check this blog!