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

Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 2pm to 4pm

This is an in person event in the Richard Doll Building Lecture Theatre.

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 is the Sustainable Laboratories Co-ordinator at Oxford. Joseph's role includes supporting environmental sustainability in laboratory work and delivering the LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) programme.
  • 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

Please register here

Agenda

  • 2 to 2.10pm Welcome from the chair
  • 2.10 to 2.30pm Joseph Arroway-Myatt: Oxford’s Sustainability 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