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The Leverhulme Trust‘s Visiting Professorship scheme is for UK institutions to invite an eminent senior professor from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area in the UK. Priority will be given to new or recent collaborations …
An IEA Inter-Task report on Synergies for bioenergy supply chain in Bioeconomy networks describes efforts to expand the current linear value chain perspective into a broader network-based view of bioenergy and bioeconomy systems. The report introduces a framework to help identify and leverage synergies between bioenergy supply chains, biobased materials …
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) is running two webinars, in conjunction with the Environment Agency, on the new Anaerobic Digestate and Compost Resource Frameworks (RFs), which were officially published today: . AD Resource Framework Industry webinar 22 Oct 2025 11-13:00 UK Compost Resource Framework Industry webinar 22 Oct 2025 14-16:00 UK To …
Date: 30 Oct 2025, 12-13:30 UK (13-14:30 CET) IEA Bioenergy is hosting a webinar on Progress and Challenges in Assessing Biomass Availability. The webinar reviews recent efforts to develop comparable estimates for sustainable biomass supply across different countries, and shares insights on how to better understand global biomass potentials. The …
Date: 3 Nov 2025, 12:00 UK Register HERE Accurate quantification of methane emissions from sites and processes is an issue for a range of environmental biotechnologies, from landfill to slurry lagoons and large-scale anaerobic digestion. Agricultural methane sources, such as livestock farming, pose the same problems and can be particularly …
Date: 31 Oct 2025, 11:00 UK Register HERE. A webinar organised by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) will discuss the most critical skills required for the transition from a linear to a more circular economy, identify when these are needed and explore how they can be secured. Prof …
Resources, Conservation and Recycling (RCR) is running a set of webinars every second Thursday of the month at 10 am Pacific Time. Advance registration is required for entry (virtual auditorium capacity 500). For those who cannot attend, or want a second chance to watch, webinars are also recorded and available on …
Thumbs up to a featured item in the International Water Association (IWA)’s The Source magazine, on Rethinking resource recovery in wastewater. While it’s an opinion piece, rather than a presentation of fresh results or research, it marshals the arguments well and covers a wide perspective. It also makes the powerful …
Closing date: 11 Dec 2025 The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is calling for proposals to phase one of its programme on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science. NERC is seeking bold, ambitious projects that accelerate the development of leading-edge data science tools and AI to help deliver transformative solutions to …
Submission deadline: 13 Nov 2025 The Horizon Europe Partnership Water4All has launched its next call for proposals under the theme ‘Water and Health’. UK participants are welcome. The call aims to support research and innovation projects addressing key challenges related to the link between water and human health, including water …
Round 2 and 3 closing dates: 25 Nov 2025, 25 Feb 2026 The Royal Society‘s Faraday Discovery Fellowships are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The Accelerated International Route, established in 2025, is intended for outstanding international researchers nominated by their UK …
A recent paper looks at the revival rates for microorganisms found in ancient permafrost cores from the Permafrost Research Tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. The researchers compared microbial growth rates, marker gene sequences and greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4) emissions across cores held anaerobically at ambient (−4°C) and elevated (4°C, 12°C) temperatures. …
The Royal Society‘s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship aims seeks to provide opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. Preference will be given to candidates who, …
The Better Water for All Network+, led by Dr Bing Guo of the University of Surrey, was successfully launched on 3 Oct 2025 in an event that brought stakeholders together to discuss how we can achieve a sustainable water future and tackle the challenges of chemical and biological micropollutants. The …
PFAS continues to draw the attention of regulators and others, to such an extent that it can sometimes be hard to keep up. Fortunately the UK’s Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments group (CL:AIRE) has now set up a PFAS Webpage that compiles relevant information from around the world. Non-commercial …
