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Newsletter September 2017
31 August 2017 |
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How can SENSE scientists increase their societal impact? ›› |
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A1 SENSE Introductory Course, 4-6 October ››
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Making an Impact! How to increase the societal relevance of your PhD research, 16-17 October ››
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MOOC: Citizens co-creating sustainable cities, 10 October - 5 December ››
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Microbiology Centennial Symposium: Exploring Microbes for the Quality of Life, 18-20 October ››
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9th ESP World Conference on Ecosystem Services, 11-15 December ›› |
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Overview of PhD graduations upcoming period ›› |
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Overview of PhD / postdoc courses September-November ›› |
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Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses ›› |
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Overview of upcoming events ›› |
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Vacancies at SENSE Partners ›› |
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Other vacancies in the SENSE field ›› |
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| How can SENSE scientists increase their societal impact? |
The International Review Committee (Review of SENSE Research School 2014) underlined the importance of good communicative efforts between scientific researchers and policy makers, business representatives and relevant stakeholders. They have recommended us as SENSE Research School to strengthen our research by increasing our societal impact. We have received this recommendation heartily and strongly recognise the importance of improving the relevance of our research to society.
Now three years later, we are very curious how we are doing. Later this year we will have a special e-News edition on Societal impact of SENSE research. Will you let us know your successes?
Please, send us how you have (potentially) increased the societal impact of your research to Marjolijn Dannenburg and we will share it in the special e-News on Societal impact of SENSE research!
Do you want to improve your skills to increase your societal impact? SENSE has developed the PhD course ‘Making an Impact – How to increase the societal relevance of your PhD research’. The next edition will be 16-17 October, for more information and registration go to: Website PhD course Making an Impact |
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| Highlighted SENSE activities: register now! |
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| A1 SENSE Introductory Course, 4-6 October |
What is my work good for? Even the most nerdish PhD student asks himself or herself this question once in a while. Is it just for the sake of science or does it relate to other research or even to environmental policy? What are my SENSE colleagues working on in other departments and other universities? How does their research relate to mine?
In the SENSE course 'Environmental Research in Context' several perspectives and approaches to analyse and to solve environmental problems are discussed. You will find out how your own research project fits within other (multi-) disciplinary approaches and you will discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of your approach compared to these alternatives.
Registration deadline: 6 September
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| Making an Impact! How to increase the societal relevance of your PhD research, 16-17 October |
The societal relevance of sustainability research has become a crucial aspect in the evaluation of research proposals. Demonstrating the societal impact of research has become a core element in the assessment of research results.
For these reasons, many PhD-candidates working on sustainability issues are motivated to ensure that their research has an impact.
Engaging with societally relevant activities is quite a challenge, requiring a suite of skills. In this intensive, interactive course, you will discover ways to combine fundamental research with societal impact activities. You will benefit both personally and socially, gaining valuable experience at the interface of research, policy and society, highly relevant for your future career. |
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| MOOC: Citizens co-creating sustainable cities, 10 October - 5 December |
 Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and political innovations for achieving sustainability.
This MOOC will teach you about the dynamics of co-creation and the key principles of citizens interacting with service providing companies, technology and infrastructure developers, policy makers and researchers. You will gain an understanding of major types of co-creation and their interdependency with their socio-technical and political contexts. You will become equipped to indicate how you can use co-creation to develop innovative technologies, policy arrangements or social practices for a sustainable city in your own community. You will demonstrate this by developing an action plan, research proposal or project idea. |
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| Microbiology Centennial Symposium: Exploring Microbes for the Quality of Life, 18-20 October |
 Wageningen University & Research is celebrating 100 years of scientific progress in exploring microbes for the quality of life. For the last 25 years we have focused on molecular ecology, microbial physiology and bacterial genetics and notably their integration. These subject areas will form the core of the scientific program that is initiated by overviews of microbial interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment and is closed with an outlook on the future.
This exciting symposium will provide you with a state of the art overview of many important areas in microbial research, varying from novel anaerobic conversions to intestinal microbiology and extremophiles research to genome editing.
Extended deadline for abstract submittance: 1 September
This symposium is organised by the SENSE group Microbiology (WUR) and is financially supported by the Wageningen SENSE partner WIMEK |
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| 9th ESP World Conference on Ecosystem Services, 11-15 December |
The 9th World Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) will be held in Shenzhen, China 11-15 December 2017. The overarching theme this year will be “Ecosystem Services for Eco-civilisation: restoring connections between people and landscapes through Nature Based Solutions”.
The call for abstracts is now open. Deadline for guaranteed timely review is 31 August 2017.
Registration for the conference is also open – Early Bird registration ends on 1 October 2017.
> For information on the conference: www.espconference.org
> For information on ESP: www.es-partnership.org |
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| Upcoming PhD Graduations |
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| Overview of PhD graduations upcoming period |
- Girma Genbere
Ecology of the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis Rüppell 1835) in a changing landscape: Human carnivore interactions in Afroalpine ecosystems of Ethiopia
5 September 2017, Leiden University, Conservation Biology
- Rens Masselink
Getting a grip on hydrological and sediment connectivity
7 September 2017, Wageningen University, Soil Physics and Land Management
- Gabriella Dóci
Renewable energy communities: a comprehensive study of local energy initiatives in the Netherlands and Germany
12 September 2017, VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Environmental Policy Analysis
- Derya Özüölmez
Ecophysiology of sulfate-reducing bacteria and syntrophic communities in marine anoxic sediments
12 September 2017, Wageningen University, Microbiology
- Yinlong Xiao
Fate, accumulation and ecotoxicity of copper nanoparticles under environmentally relevant conditions
13 September 2017, Leiden University, Conservation Biology
- Olufolahan Osunmuyiwa
Beyond technologies: the politics of energy transitions in rentier states
15 September 2017, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Environmental Policy Analysis
- Annet Kempenaar
Design in the planning arena. How regional designing influences strategic spatial planning
18 September 2017, Wageningen University, Landscape Architecture
- Guangchao Chen
The use of computational toxicology in hazard assessment of engineered nanomaterials
19 September 2017, Leiden University, Conservation Biology
- Ying Zhang
20 September 2017, University of Twente, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management
- Fangyuan Yu
Conservation biogeography of rhododendrons in China
21 September 2017, University of Twente, Department of Natural Resources
- Maria Fernanda Reyes Perez
Water demand and supply management in the Galapagos: A Case Study of Santa Cruz Island
28 September 2017, IHE Delft, River Basin Development
- Anahita Khosravipour
Detecting individual trees from LiDar
University of Twente, Department of Natural Resources
29 September 2017
- Nadejda Andreev
Lactic acid fermentation of human excreta for agricultural application
29 September 2017, IHE Delft, Pollution Prevention and Control
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| Overview of PhD / postdoc courses September-November |
- IALE-Europe PhD Course - From pattern and process to people and action
10-11 and 15-19 September 2017, Belgium
- Research Methodology I: From topic to proposal (NEW)
18 September, 2, 16 and 30 October, 13 November 2017, Wageningen
- Geostatistics for Water Resources and Environmental Scientists
27 September - 1 October 2017, Delft
- Quantitative Ecology - Module for Master and PhD students
October 2017 - January 2018, Czech Republic
- Integration of gender & diversity in your own research (NEW)
3-24 October 2017, Wageningen
- A1 SENSE Introductory Course
4-6 October 2017, Soest
- R and Big Data
5-6 October 2017, Wageningen
- MOOC: Citizens co-creating sustainable cities
10 October - 5 December 2017
- Making an Impact! How to increase the societal relevance of your PhD research
16-17 October 2017, Lunteren
- Multivariate Analysis
17-26 October 2017, Wageningen
- Bioeconomy - an Introduction
18-19 October 2017, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
- Delft Software Days
23 October - 3 November 2017
- Introduction to R for statistical analysis
23-24 October 2017, Wageningen
- Risk Assessment
23-27 October 2017, Wageningen
- Bayesian Statistics
25-26 October 2017, Wageningen
- PCDI course Employability Outside Academia (NEW)
27 October, 24 November and 5 January (all Fridays), Utrecht
- Advanced Short Course on "Where there is little data: how to estimate design variables in poorly gauged basins"
30 October - 10 November 2017, Delft
- SENSE Writing Week
30 October - 3 November 2017, Ommen
- Speciation and Bioavailability of Metals, Organics and Nanoparticles
6-10 November 2017, Belgium
- Linking Community and Ecosystem Dynamics
12-17 November 2017, Schiermonnikoog
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| Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses |
In case you are interested in either participating or teaching a course that is currently not in the programme, please do not hesitate and contact SENSE education coordinator Monique Gulickx (monique.gulickx@wur.nl).
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| Upcoming Events |
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| Overview of upcoming events |
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- Utrecht Sustainability lecture: Impact of landuse change and hunting on biodiversity
14 September 2017, Utrecht
- Symposium Frontiers in resilience research: From individuals to communities
18 September 2017, Wageningen
- Online Seminar: Open Source Software and Open Data for Integrated Water Resources Management
20 September 2017, online
- Boosting Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
20-21 September 2017, UK
- National PhD Day: Dare to stand out!
23 September 2017, Nijmegen
- Inaugural address prof. Eddy Moors IHE Delft: Water - Wrestling with Wicked Problems
5 October 2017, Delft
- Treub Symposium 2017: Biodiversity and global change in the Tropics
17 November 2017, Amsterdam
- Fifth International Symposium on Arctic Research: The changing Arctic and its regional to global impact: From information to knowledge and action
15-18 January 2018, Japan
- Landscape 2018 – Frontiers of agricultural landscape research
12-16 March 2018, Germany
- 19th Student Conference on Conservation Science
27-29 March 2018, Cambridge
- ICCB 2018: 20th International Conference on Conservation Biology
24 April 2018, UK
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