Led by Prof Joe Holden, Director of iCASP Prof Joe Holden opening feedback on cross-cutting skill needs across the Yorkshire water sector 🧰 Section 1: What Are the Current Skills Gaps? Participants identified a wide range of skill gaps in the region’s water sector across professional, educational, entrepreneurial and other domains. These include technical expertise … Read more
Led by Dr Gabriela Lopez Gonzalez, Head of water@leeds Workshop participants discussing how community engagement can enhance water quality monitoring in Yorkshire. 🔎 Section 1: What is Citizen Science? Citizen science is the active involvement of everyday people – especially non-academics and local communities – in scientific research. It goes beyond basic data collection, encouraging people … Read more
Led by Prof Dave Hodgson, Deputy Director of iCASP Participants brainstorming integrated water strategies during the iCASP workshop. Summary The group explored integrated water innovation through multiple interconnected lenses, highlighting the need to manage trade-offs, create shared policies, secure green finance and treat water as a fundamental right. There was a strong emphasis on addressing … Read more
🎬 📍 Across Northern England | iCASP, WaterLANDS and Great North Bog Partners A Bog Film Festival is being held across the north of England to encourage people to discover why peatlands matter and learn about the crucial work being undertaken to restore them. Three exciting events are being held in the lead-up to International … Read more
🎧 Podcast: Exploring Restoration with WaterLANDS The second episode of Exploring Restoration with WaterLANDS features Prof. Julia Martin-Ortega, an ecological economist, and Dr. Joshua Cohen, an environmental anthropologist at the University of Leeds. Recorded during the WaterLANDS General Assembly in Leeds, the researchers discuss the risks of nature commodification and what implications this might have … Read more
A manual to help landowners and farmers introduce the best possible natural flood management measures on their land and get an appropriate level of funding for doing so has just been published. It has been developed as part of a large-scale conservation project based around the River Skell, to encourage landowners to implement nature based … Read more
Update from Freshwater Quality Champion Team Welcome to the Freshwater Quality Programme spring 2025 newsletter, which has been produced by the Champion team based in water@leeds, University of Leeds. The newsletter provides updates from the Champion team and the five research projects within the programme, which each focus on different aspects of water quality. You can subscribe to receive the … Read more
In December 2025, the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management Community of Practice (NFM CoP) came together online for its Winter Webinar, marking an important moment for the network as we look ahead to the next phase of delivery across the region. Following on from the momentum of the Monitoring Skill Share earlier in the year, the … Read more
Around 100 local authority employees are being trained in a new project to help improve the mental well-being of people whose properties have flooded or at are risk of flooding. The Psychological First Aid Training will start this month and be delivered by specialist trainers Purple Dog to a diverse range of front-line staff including … Read more
I am the Graduate Trainee in Green Finance and Peatland Restoration within WaterLANDS UK. My role is to help build capacity and mobilise the use of green finance to support and deliver peatland restoration across the Great North Bog. This involves sourcing and engaging private sector finance, raising the profile of peatland restoration work delivered … Read more