Prizes of £500 and £250 (available as travel bursaries or to cover other research costs) will be awarded to the two best posters. In addition, awards will be available to cover the travel costs and expenses of all researchers whose posters are accepted.
Abstracts are invited for the poster session from UK-based post-graduate students (both Masters and PhD completed or in progress), and young researchers within 3 years of graduation.
Sustainable Development Research Network
SDRN 'LWEC' - themed Young Researcher Poster Competition - Call for Abstracts
SDRN Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference 2009
Thursday 24th September 2009
Conference Centre, Wellcome Collection,
183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE
‘Living With Environmental Change’ (LWEC)
Young Researcher Poster Session and Competition
Call for Abstracts
For many years, the SDRN Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference has remained one of the highlights of the Sustainable Development Research Network calendar. Drawing together an exciting and high-level mix of academics, policy-makers and other representatives from business, NGOs and the research community, the 2009 Conference will provide an opportunity for the presentation and discussion of new, cutting-edge sustainable development research and policy issues.
Thanks to generous sponsorship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), SDRN will again be running a Young Researcher Poster Competition and Session, to showcase the work of sustainable development researchers at the beginning of their careers. The session will provide young researchers with an opportunity to showcase their work at a high-profile conference, together with valuable networking opportunities.
Prizes of £500 and £250 (available as travel bursaries or to cover other research costs) will be awarded to the two best posters. In addition, awards will be available to cover the travel costs and expenses of all researchers whose posters are accepted.
Abstracts are invited for the poster session from UK-based post-graduate students (both Masters and PhD completed or in progress), and young researchers within 3 years of graduation.
Competition theme: Living With Environmental Change
2008 marked the launch of the 10-year ‘Living With Environmental Change’ (LWEC) initiative, a 10 year programme supported by the UK’s major funders of environmental research. LWEC aims to strengthen the environmental change evidence base for policy-makers, in part by addressing the uncertainties that remain about the impacts of climate change and the links between natural capital and human well-being. Following the high quality of applications exhibited in last year’s SDRN Young Researcher Poster Session, this year’s competition is once again themed ‘Living With Environmental Change’.
Submissions are invited from researchers working in all disciplines, whose work meets the broad objectives of the LWEC programme. These include but are by no means limited to: building effective mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change; water availability, quality, use and management; environmental change and human health and well-being; changes to the built environment and planning systems; interactions of transport, leisure and tourism with the environment; and, public attitudes, perceptions, changing behaviours and collective action.
Submission Details
Your abstract submission, to be submitted electronically, must include all of the following:
1) Paper Title
2) Author(s): Including author(s) name, affiliations and email addresses. The submission of co-authored papers is welcomed but please indicate corresponding author when providing details.
3) Abstract text: Maximum 400 words. Accepted abstracts will be included, together with the abstracts of main presentations, in conference delegates packs. Please only submit abstracts that are suitable for publication. These can include supporting data (graphs, diagrams, drawings, photos) of the presented research.
Conditions of Acceptance
The competition is open to all early career researchers, currently working within the UK. Please note that we are unable to reimburse travel expenses for international travel, and that international researchers will not be eligible for either prize.
Only original material should be submitted. By submitting your abstract you authorise SDRN to circulate your abstract to SDRN’s management and advisory committees for review and, if it is accepted, to publish your abstract in conference documentation and post-event proceedings. Authors are expected to attend the conference evening reception to present their work.
Please send electronic abstracts directly to Sarah Bell. For all enquiries, please contact Sarah Bell (tel: +44 (0)20 7911 7534, address: Policy Studies Institute, 50 Hanson Street, London W1W 6UP).
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 12.00pm (noon), Friday 10th July 2009. Successful submissions will be notified by no later than Friday 7th August 2009.
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