Fossil fuels are used everywhere, in our clothing, our medicine, and even our cooking. Wouldn’t it be great if we could use another source to synthesise these necessary molecules. Maybe…

This is the first episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. Professor Anne-Maree Farrell (Edinburgh Law School) is joined by Professor Mary Donnelly (University College Cork) to discuss…

NOTE Captions are in process of being edited for typos! [postponed from 23 March]Abstract from Antonia Thomas: In this seminar I am going to discuss some of the ways in which we can think about…

[due to an error the audio does not start til around 00:01:45] Lifetime Piling Up. Visual accumulations of objects and experience.Using images of his own work, personal history and research,…

Narrating a Wasted Landscape: exploring architectural heritage in an industrial town in Bengal From the construction of India’s first coal mine in 1832, the district of Asansol in West Bengal…

Author Cal Flyn talks about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places, as explored in her new book Islands of Abandonment, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Wainwright…

Artist Susan Trangmar discusses her ongoing research and photographic work in Dungeness, Kent to explore notions of waste and value. Susan is an artist interested in practices of place, the material…

The Reimagining waste landscapes seminar series launches with a presentation from Dr Jacob Doherty of the University of Edinburgh. Jacob introduces his new book, Waste Worlds: Inhabiting…

Waste / In the beginning, waste was a place. Later on, it became a judgement of value. Since early modern times, the word “waste” has signified “to neglect to use”, and…

Learn about how the University of Edinburgh is making its laboratories more sustainable, and encouraging lab users to do the same. For more information on sustainable laboratories, visit…

Recording of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Lab Sustainability webinar held on Friday 5 March 2021. Presented by Andrew Arnott, Projects Coordinator (Labs).

Recording of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Lab Sustainability webinar held on Friday 5 March 2021. Presented by Andrew Arnott, Projects Coordinator (Labs).

Recording of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Lab Sustainability webinar held on Friday 5 March 2021. Presented by Andrew Arnott, Projects Coordinator (Labs).

Recording of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Lab Sustainability webinar held on Friday 5 March 2021. Presented by Andrew Arnott, Projects Coordinator (Labs).

Recording of the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Lab Sustainability webinar held on Friday 5 March 2021. Presented by Andrew Arnott, Projects Coordinator (Labs).

Recording of a 'lunch and learn' session on lab plastic waste reduction pilots. Hosted by Andrew Arnott from SRS, with speakers Amy Pickering and Ella Thornton.