A one day interdisciplinary conference, including a public lecture on Development of social behaviour in children from infancy: neurobiological, relational and situational interactions.

Since 1977, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) has operated an annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Programme (YSSP) offering research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. From June through August accepted participants work within the Institute’s research programs under the guidance of IIASA scientific staff. Funding is provided through IIASA's National Member Organisations which includes NERC in the UK.

The aim of this workshop is to ensure that participants are familiar with basic gender concepts, including gender equality, and are aware of internationally recognised gender equality rights and policies.

University of Cambridge Cambridge Conservation Initiative is hosting Professor Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University (Tellus
Mater Distinguished Fellow in Sustainability Studies).

The CRASSH Politics of Economics group brings different disciplinary angles together for a discussion of these aspects of the politics-economics relation, and their normative and epistemic consequences. For the next seminar on The Politics of Economics Bhaskar Vira (University of Cambridge) and James Vause (UNEP-WCMC) will discuss the "Politics of the Green Economy”.

This 5-day Advanced Training Short Course will provide hands-on experience of ocean gliders using UEA's unique seawater tank, as well as the theoretical knowledge of how gliders and their sensors work. The training draws upon UEA's extensive experience of glider deployments worldwide. Lecturers include experts in physical, chemical and biological ocean science using gliders, as well as a highly trained glider engineer.

The Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Social, Technological, and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre invites applications for its 2018 Summer School, which will take place from 14-25 May 2018.

Are you interested in the challenge of harnessing scientific information to reduce and manage natural hazard risk? This one-day event (24 hours) will host up to 20 young (under 35) professionals, researchers and students divided into interdisciplinary teams to test their innovative, creative, scientific and technological skills to co-develop risk communication solutions to real world challenges facing local decision makers.

Convened by the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction & Recovery (GFDRR), Understanding Risk is a global community of experts and practitioners with interest in the field of disaster risk identification, specifically risk assessment and risk communication.

Research Associates and Senior Research Associates are invited by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs to participate in an explorative trip to the University of Central Asia (UCA) in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Delegates will present on their research or area of expertise to local academic and research staff and research students, and discuss research at UCA. One aspect of the trip will be to identify areas of potential research collaboration.