Sustainable Development Network Events 2013/14

All events are free and open to the public.  However, booking is recommended. 

Please register to attend via our Eventbrite site 

Eventbrite - SDN Lecture Series 2012/13

Venues can be found on the campus map by their location ID (letter/number).

DateTimeTitleSpeakerSummaryVenue
3 Oct 5.15 - 7.15pm TBC May East, CEO CIFAL Scotland Based at the UN Habitat Best Practice Designation Findhorn Ecovillage since 1992, May has been leading a whole generation of sustainability educators delivering trainings in 34 countries in both urban and rural contexts. A UNITAR Fellow, she has a diploma on Climate Change Diplomacy and is the UN House Scotland Director of Sustainability and Climate Change. May has delivered Transition Training since 2008 creating pathways for low-carbon global to regional performance and is currently advising a series of projects seeking to scale up low-carbon investment in Brazil. Awarded one of the 100 Global SustainAbility Leaders 2011 and 2012. Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building C8
12 Dec 5.15 - 7.15pm Transferring Electrical Networks to Enable the Low Carbon Transition Prof. Phil Taylor, Director of Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability, University of Newcastle Professor Taylor carries out research which focuses on the challenges associated with the widespread integration and control of distributed/renewable generation in electrical distribution networks. Prior to joining
Newcastle University he held the DONG Energy Chair in Renewable Energy and was a Director of the
Durham Energy Institute. He received an Engineering Doctorate in the field of intelligent demand
side management techniques from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
(UMIST) in 2001.
Sir Alwyn Williams Bulding, Level 5 Seminar Room D20
           

More details of SDN events for 2013/14 will be announced soon.