Don’t get caught out – flooding can happen to you

We are supporting National Flood Action Week, 7 – 11 November. On Friday we are running a free session about communicating flood risk during an incident for flood wardens, communicating groups or anyone who has a role in flood risk management to help increase resilience in our region. It is part of a week of … Read more

WYFLIP Board & Steering Group

WYFLIP Board The role of the WY FLIP Board is to maintain oversight of the programme throughout its lifecycle and to facilitate executive decision making at a strategic level to ensure that the activities of the programme align with the core themes and principles as outlined in the Roadmap.   The Programme Board will work with … Read more

Autumn Bulletin 2022

Welcome to the autumn edition of our quarterly news bulletin as plans are underway for COP27 in Egypt later this month. If you have any suggestions for future content or comments please get in touch by emailing: icasp@leeds.ac.uk  If you didn’t receive a copy you can access it online; you can also sign up here to have future versions sent straight to … Read more

FAQs – West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Program

Where has WYFLIPs funding come from? WY FLIP has been kick-started with 2 years of funding from the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to come up with an action plan and work with more partners to attract and lobby for significantly more funding for resilience projects in the region How does WYFLIP operate? The … Read more

Innovative action to increase resilience to flooding and climate change in West Yorkshire

A new animation has been created to promote the benefits of West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WY FLIP) since it began a year ago to increase resilience to flooding and climate change in the region. Ambassador for WY FLIP and Deputy Leader of Calderdale Council, Councillor Jane Scullion, launched the animation at Yorkshire Integrated Catchment … Read more

Opportunity for Artists to reflect restoration at Great North Bog, in the north of England

The Great North Bog, United Kingdom, is one of six Action Sites included in WaterLANDS – a five year European Union Green Deal funded project which aims to restore damaged wetlands across Europe and lay the foundations for protection across larger areas. We are looking for artists to engage with the site, the restoration team … Read more

WY FLIP Roadmap

Research England has funded the development of a Roadmapwhich sets out the shared vision, purpose and future direction of the WY FLIP. To realise true innovation and increase resilience we need input from a wide range of partners from a wide range of sectors including: infrastructure, health, finance, transport, planning, education and the community and voluntary sector. … Read more

Confluence 2022 Resources

Thank you for joining us at Confluence 2022, please see the featured presentations and video below. Stay in touch with project progress, news of events and publications by signing up to our newsletter here. Confluence Summary & Delegate Outputs Guest Speaker Presentations Making a difference in our region and further afield – Duncan Fyfe, iCASP … Read more

NERC co-appoint Professor Pippa Chapman and Professor Joseph Holden as Freshwater Quality Champions

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have co-appointed Professor Pippa Chapman and Professor Joseph Holden as the new Freshwater Quality Champion for the Understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters programme. This appointment will see the academics, from University of Leeds, lead and co-ordinate a new four-year programme on ‘Understanding changes in quality of UK … Read more

How do information flows affect impact from environmental research? – An analysis of a science-policy network

There’s a growing demand for evidence of what impact environmental research is having – especially from funders. And yet those who use the research often don’t report the impact in the way researchers expect them to according to a new study which looks at Yorkshire iCASP as science-policy network. This analysis by Prof Julia Martin-Ortego, Prof Martin … Read more