Chester University recently hosted a specially designed “Faculty Research Day” where attendees could share their ideas about sustainability.
The dedicated event highlighted the university’s Faculty of Science, Business, and Enterprise and its now globally significant research profile.
The faculty boasts a diverse spectrum of ground-breaking research, from endangered animals’ conservation to industrial decarbonisation. The Centre for Research into Environmental and Sustainable Transitions (CREST), based at the Queen’s Park campus near Chester university accommodation, works directly on rural innovation and integrates engineering and nature-based solutions.
The event zeroed in on the 17 goals of sustainability that the United Nations has established, discussing the challenges these goals represent and new methods to approach them with using collaborative research. The day started with a knowledge and research introduction session, focusing on exchange strategy at the university with presentations from lead researchers from three departments, Conservation Biology, Computer Science, and Organisation Studies.
Research students at Chester were then given a chance to show off their own research projects and enter a competition. MRes Biological Sciences student Emma Barker was declared the winner for her research regarding statistics of the leopard population that employed detailed data captured with camera traps.
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation at U of C, Professor Julieanna Powell-Turner, commented:
“I hope this shared experience has laid the foundation for future innovative and interdisciplinary endeavours across our three schools and the wider university.”
The Faculty Research Day was the first event of its kind at the University of Chester.
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