Tools for environmentally sustainable health research: opportunities, challenges and open questions

Abstract

The aim of the event is to explore with the speakers/audience what research organisations are doing to create infrastructures and incentives for environmentally sustainable research in dry labs, what opportunities and challenges they face, how funders are influencing this, what tools and approaches are out there and how all this is understood and experienced by researchers. This will ensure that our research community is both aware of the wider context from the institutional perspective, and also that it has a voice in leadership team decisions on environmentally sustainable research.

Chair

Federica Lucivero is an Associate Professor in Ethics of Technology at the Ethox Centre, Oxford Population Health. Federica’s research explores ethical questions related to the environmental sustainability of scientific research using digital infrastructures and large datasets. She co-leads the Wellcome funded SHARE research project,  co-directs the Shade Research Hub at the intersection of sustainability, health, AI and digital technologies and chairs the Sustainable Health Data Conversations.

Speakers

• Joseph Arroway-Myatt graduated from the University Of the West of England with an MSci in Biomedicine. He works at the University of Oxford on environmental sustainability issues across research and teaching. He serves as the Sustainable Research Practice Coordinator within the Environmental Sustainability team and works as Project Coordinator in the IRIHS group in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences to support the spread and scale of the LATTICE carbon-modelling algorithm, funded through the Environmental Sustainability Small Grants Programme. Joseph will share insights from across Oxford’s sustainability ecosystem, highlighting how tools are being deployed and adapted in response to a changing research and educational landscape. 

• Martin Farley is the Associate Director of Environmental Sustainability at UKRI. He has worked extensively around sustainable research and developed the LEAF programme, and is currently leading UKRI’s SPARKHub. He initiated sustainable science & laboratory programmes at Edinburgh, King’s College London, and UCL, and co-founded the UK Network for Sustainable Research (UKNSR).

Registration

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Agenda

• 2 to 2.10pm Welcome from the chair
• 2.10 to 2.30pm Joseph Arroway-Myatt: Oxford’s Sustainable Research Practice Programme
• 2.30 to 2.50pm Martin Farley: Environmentally Sustainable Research – Moving Forward
• 2.50 to 3.30pm Speakers in conversation with Federica and the audience
• 3.30 to 4pm Refreshments and Networking