Setting the Scene for the Nexus Science USRG, With keynote speaker Professor Tim Benton Event
- Time:
- 13:00 - 17:00
- Date:
- 15 June 2016
- Venue:
- Building 67, Room 1007, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
For more information regarding this event, please email P Worby at P.Worby@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
An event to launch the Nexus Science University Strategic Research Group
Professor Tim Benton is the UK's Champion for its Global Food Security Programme the role of which is to ensure that strategically important research is undertaken in related sciences, and to add value to research using interdisciplinary collaboration, alignment and engagement with communities of stakeholders.
The event was structured around an interactive facilitated workshop for participants.
Networking opportunities were built in and there was lunch and refreshemnts as the day went on, to refresh attendees.
If you were unable to attend, browse the outputs below.
Speaker information
Professor Tim Benton ,University of Leeds,BA, Oxford, PhD 1990, Cambridge, FSB, FLS Professor of Population Ecology; UK Champion for Global Food Security and Professor of Population Ecology School of Biology Background: The severe environmental challenges of the 21st Century are summarised by John Beddington's term "The Perfect Storm" and involves producing more food for the growing global population, whilst coping with climate change, reduction in carbon usage, and by not simply using more land. Prof Tim Benton's interests focus around how we can do this most "sustainably". His research career has been focussed on the linkage between organisms and environmental changes, and his research in the agri-environment sphere also focusses on how farming drives ecological dynamics (at field, landscape and larger scales, up to global). He has used a variety of techniques through his career (including field and lab work, statistical, numerical and analytical modelling) and has held positions at UEA (postdoc), Cambridge University Press (Science Editor), Stirling University (lecturer and Senior Lecturer), Aberdeen University (Senior Lecturer) and Leeds (Professor, 2005, Director of the Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology (2005 -2007), Pro-Dean for Research (2007-2011). From 2011, he has been UK Champion for Global Food Security, acting as ambassador and spokesperson for matters to do with food and food security, and coordinating work across this area between research councils and government departments. You can read more about Professor Benton's interests at www.foodsecurity.ac.uk.