Passionate about collaborations to make better environments. Prof Water and Planning, Dept. Urban Studies & Plg, Uni of Sheffield, UK #Water #Communities
Sheffield, prev Bradford & Ldn
Joined June 2012
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20mph What more evidence do you need? 40 per cent fewer people killed, and 75 per cent fewer children killed. Facts that can’t be ignored…. standard.co.uk/comment/20mph…
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PhD apportunity on UK #uplandfires at @ScienceShef @sheffielduni with @UniOfYork and @UKHSA
@sheffield_dust @DarpanDas13
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Dublin City centre just now. These nightmarish scene will only become ever more common if the Anti-Car-Everywhere zealots have their wicked way.
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Loads of rain due tomorrow.
If a #flood was heading your way, would you know what to do? I doubt it, as your mind will turn to spaghetti in panic.
Plan NOW write it down
move your car
Move precious memories up stairs
Empty low down cupboards
Lift anything off the ground you can
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If you have sadly been #flooded,please help others by taking part in this survey.
Link below 👇
#TheNationalFloodForum is supporting the @NatEmergTrust #AfterTheStorms survey – working with @LancasterUni to look into the support people receive when they #Flood.
To take part and find further information, please click the following link - nationalemergenciestrust.org…
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Link for a 3 year postdoctoral research associate position on our Leverhulme Trust ‘Unfeeling climate change’ project - on how disaffected feelings relate to the climate crisis. Please forward/retweet etc. Questions by email, not DM.
durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
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The UK rail network isn't as bad as we make out. It's a dense network, accounts for 20% of all rail journeys in Europe, punctuality is roughly the same as other western European networks, and safety is well above average. It's on-the-day ticket prices that let it down.
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A sadly unsurprising dip in today’s stats. We’ve been building health out of streets & baking pollution in. It’s a road we can’t afford, that takes us to a place we don’t want to live.
We get what we build for, so let’s start building something better.
theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
Liz Sharp retweeted
This - from Private Eye - illustrates why it was reasonable to question the sentence lengths given to the Stop Oil protestors @RestIsPolitics
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Thanks SO much to the wonderful people of Nether Edge, where we recorded the last ‘In Town’ of the series. Their story of a community battling to save their trees is glorious, and a special mention for Benoit the French magician, mon sorcier activiste préfère.
Liz Sharp retweeted
Crossbow killings are incredibly rare in the UK, yet law changes are being considered regarding their sale. But drive a Land Rover into a school, killing school children, and there's no law change consideration for such vehicles. Why is this @YvetteCooperMP? @RoadPeace
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It seems amazing to me that we are having no political discussion whatsoever on how to reverse our obesity and health crisis that costs nearly £90 billion annually with simple measures like expanding the sugar tax or putting warnings on UPFs . Shows the power of the food lobby in the U.K. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgxq…
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I do live in Greystones.
I've been here 40 years.
I catch busses most days.
There's reasons why people don't want a red route.
Try think why?
Go on.
Have a go.
Try see other peoples perspective on things?
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Laura Kuenssberg, "You don't believe that the economy should just keep growing and getting bigger"
Adrian Ramsay, "GDP as a measure of economic success doesn't tell us about how unequal our society is.. Whether children have clean air to breathe.. Whether our rivers are full of sewage.. Whether public services are working properly.. Whether people can get access to a dentist" @AdrianRamsay
"We need a wider range of economic measures which are about health, happiness, prosperity, job security, public services" 👏
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“I find it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye”
Former Conservative minister and MP Dr Dan Poulter has quit his party to join Labour. He tells #BBCLauraK he believes that Keir Starmer can be trusted to run public services
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bv0…
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Remembering the great, late David Marquand who I had the privilege to teach with for a brief time when I was lecturing at Sheffield University. Lovely man, cheeky smile, massive intellect and influential on a whole generation of enquiring minds
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We have an exciting opportunity for two researchers to play a key role in the delivery of a major new interdisciplinary project, for more info and to apply please see: bit.ly/4a86FzG #Jobs #researchers
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IWMI, part of CGIAR, seeks a creative Senior Researcher/Researcher for our Water Tracker Project. Passionate about water management? Join us! apply.workable.com/internati…
On-site: Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Closing date: April 19, 2024
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This is utterly ridiculous - the disapline the fuses the natural and social worlds is needed more than ever to skill the next generation with the knowledge to addresss a suite of growing global challenges. In the city of #cop26 too.... do better Glasgow.
This is grim reading
"The city council says the decision to replace #Geography with 'Travel and Tourism' is related with the plan to axe 450 teachers and instead is simply 'what works best' for pupils"
@SAGTeach @RoyalScotGeoSoc
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…