Scenario Developer @UK_CEH Futuring, scenarios, reflexivity, transformation, social-ecological systems, water PhD @UWaterloo | @fdnPETF | ESG Fellow | MESPOM

Lancaster, UK
Joined March 2018
🚨Paper alert!🚨Ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' in transdisciplinary research, but ignoring it risks masking the complex and plural nature of sustainability challenges. We draw on critical systems theory to offer a possible path forward. rdcu.be/dtJ88
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#Webinar #Foresight: Join us on 9 September for an in-depth review of foresight tools and methods as we launch the ISC - @UNEP Working Paper on horizon scanning and foresight. 📅 Monday, 09/09/24 🕚 11am UTC | 1pm CEST 🔗 Register & share: council.science/events/isc-u…
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
The adverts for one #postdocposition and three #PhDpositions in my ERC starting grant project LEVER "Our sustainabLe futurE, the ValuEs that dRive it and how to get there" are now online. DL: 1.10.2024 tinyurl.com/mr92wejv #academicjobs #sciencejobs #AcademicTwitter
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We are recruiting two 12-month posts to work with me on the Horizon Europe DISTENDER project distender.eu/ - an Interdisciplinary Scientist and a Spatial Data Scientist. Posts in the thread below. Please reach out if you have any questions! ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CE…
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
🚨Call for Evidence🚨 - I'm looking for papers on methods (or using methods) for projecting change in biodiversity or developing scenarios of biodiversity change. The focus needs to be biodiversity. Any ideas? Thanks 🙏 [pls retweet]
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
That's a wrap! 🤩 Over the past two days, our hard-working consortium has delved into #TransformativeChange, #Visions, and the #BiodiversityNexus. A huge thank you to @drifteur for hosting! Learn more about our project: bionext-project.eu
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
A beach, a huge triangle and signs - what is going on?🤔 Well, it is of course the @BionextProject workshop where we create pathways to nature-centred futures! 🏖️Beach = our location in Schrool 🔺Triangle = NFF exercise bionext-project.eu/news/clos… 🛑Signs = what we need to change
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
New post in Utopian Pulses @FuturesStudioUU: Mysterious Metaphors of "Art-Science". What are the divergent and often hidden metaphors that guide how we increasingly intertwine our artistic and scientific worlds? uu.nl/en/opinion/mysterious-… Artwork by Sina Bohm.
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050. Our paper @ScienceMagazine shows declines in biodiversity and regulating services driven by land-use can be slowed but climate impacts are accelerating #1/ science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
💡Interested to learn more about the #BiodiversityNexus? We conducted a systematic #review to understand how #biodiversity is interconnected with #climate, #food, #water, #energy, #transport and #health. 🔃 Read our new #publication 🔗bionext-project.eu/nexus-pap… @UK_CEH @IPBES
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
What is the role of Human-nature relationships (HNR) and “inner transformations” to leverage systemic change for sustainability? Sign up for this immersive, interactive, reflective PhD course @WUR - partly held outdoors. Deadline April 1st
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
A few days left to apply for this PhD-position with @Jonas_Torrens @NFrantzeskaki and myself on the role of #SocialInnovations and #TranslocalNetworks in #NatureBasedSolutions across the Mediterranean. Based at @UUCopernicus @SGPL_UU @UUGeo @UniUtrecht uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
Join our exciting futuring for sustainability summer school this July!
See you in Utrecht from 8 - 12 July? Apply now for our Futuring for Sustainability Summer School 2024 @utrechtsummer @UUCopernicus uu.nl/en/research/urban-futu… #futuring #sustainability #futures #summerschool
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
Really looking forward to delivering the Tanner Lecture in Cambridge on Feb 5. The title of the lecture is: "Intimations of Apocalypse: Catastrophist and Gradualist Imaginings of the Planetary Future."
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
Post-doc researchers, here's a wonderful opportunity! Help us adapt the tools of Doughnut Economics to island contexts esp. in the global South. Two-year role, based at U. Cadiz, Spain. Be quick: apply by 27 January! Pls forward to interested folks, thx. doughnuteconomics.org/news/6…
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
We're a partner on the new Land Use for #NetZero (LUNZ) Hub Over the next 3 years, the Hub will set out a range of solutions to making UK land use carbon neutral, including providing financial costs and predicting impacts on the environment and people xitter.cf/UKRI_News/status/17472…
We’re investing in a new Land Use for Net Zero hub to help cut carbon emissions from UK land use. Co-led by @JamesHuttonInst and @uniofleicester, the hub aims to produce new evidence and guidance to drive policy change: orlo.uk/s9jVq
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
#JobAlert #PhDPosition Are you passionate about helping #cities and regions adapt to climate change while protecting biodiversity? Are you interested in the role of knowledge and how to bring it into inclusive planning and governance? #naturebasedsolutions uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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Anita Lazurko, PhD retweeted
We're hiring!! Looking for a postdoc to build new Canada-specific maps and models of ecosystem services (ES), and will test how these maps can answer a variety of research, management, and policy questions as part of @NSERC_ResNet. socialecologicalworkshop.com…
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Come work with us at UKCEH! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en…
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Thanks so much to co-authors @JamilaHaider @sim_patrickwest Tilman Hertz and Dan McCarthy for the wonderful writing journey! And for embracing the metaphors, here our conceptualisation of ambiguity. 😀
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