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  1. Mining battery metals: what, how, sustainable?

    Mining battery metals: what, how, sustainable?

    Metals such as lithium, nickel and copper underpin global decarbonisation efforts, largely due to the fact the majority of future supply in the short to medium...

  2. Science for Policy Workshops

    Science for Policy Workshops

    Experts from academia, industry and government will explain, in a series of consecutive workshops, how to become involved in policy and discussions on...

  3. PEPtalk: Being Part of Energy Policy

    PEPtalk: Being Part of Energy Policy

    How to make the right decisions?

    From the outside to the inside of the policy circle --- during our next PEP talk, we will hear from two leading energy scientists in Scotland and their way...

  4. Energy Cafe: Climate activism in a repressive world

    Energy Cafe: Climate activism in a repressive world

    mixed-methods approach to understanding the psychological antecedents of taking climate action

    Hosted by Sunniva Davies-Rommetveit Since the late 2010s, climate protest groups have used a variety of tactics to demand an acceleration to the green energy...

  5. PEPtalk: Researching Net Zero

    PEPtalk: Researching Net Zero

    How to direct policy as energy scientists?

    The implementation of Net Zero strategies is urgent, but a complex undertaken. Energy researchers play a fundamental role in shaping our future energy...

  6. Synthetic Forever: White Suits, Fatbergs, and the Breathing Museum

    Synthetic Forever: White Suits, Fatbergs, and the Breathing Museum

    Global Fellow Lecture with Prof Kirsty Robertson

    At the Museum of London, a fatberg, pulled from the sewers below Whitechapel, sits in a plexiglass case, off gassing, breathing. Made of congealed masses of...

  7. Energy Cafe: Whose transition?

    Energy Cafe: Whose transition?

    Weighing up the costs and benefits of critical raw material extraction

    Speakers Emma Wilson, ECW Energy Ltd (UK) and Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI Gerti Saxinger, Uni Vienna (AT) and Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI...

  8. Energy Cafe --- The Unjust Transition at Grangemouth Oil Refinery

    Energy Cafe --- The Unjust Transition at Grangemouth Oil Refinery

    Workers' Perspectives

    Hosted by Dr Ewan Gibbs and Riyoko Shibe Fossil fuel workers are central protagonists in achieving a 'just transition' to a greener and fairer...