by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | May 15, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events, News
As part of our impact agenda for sustainability, I blog regularly about green issues. This is a third post with tips on how to run a sustainable conference. Previous posts covered travel and travel costs and virtual conferencing. Vegetarian and Vegan Food and Drink A...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Apr 15, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events, News
As part of our impact agenda for this project, I post monthly on environmental sustainability. This month’s post contains more tips for hosting a more sustainable conference. Last month’s post covered travel and costs. Virtual Presentations Consider having...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Jan 15, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events, News
A guest post by Prof Helen Beebee reporting on her use of GoToWebinar for a virtual conference. Since one of our aims in this project is to reduce the carbon footprint associated with research events, we took the opportunity of hosting another, unrelated conference to...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Nov 15, 2017 | Environmental Sustainability, Events, News
Part of the ‘impact’ component of our research project — that is, how it will benefit wider society — is promoting sustainability. Our project has a very small carbon footprint compared to most research projects of its size. That is because we...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Oct 15, 2017 | Environmental Sustainability, News
As part of our environmental sustainability agenda for this project, our project members do not fly to the European continent to give papers. Instead, we take the train or present virtually. This summer, two of our project members travelled to the continent to present...
by Anthony Fisher | Nov 19, 2016 | News
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded us funding for our research project The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy. The project runs for three years,...