RENKEI Just Transitions to a Net Zero World Inter-disciplinary Workshop on 7-9 May 2025.

The workshop will provide a platform for early career researchers, including post-docs, PhDs students and advanced post-graduate research students who work on sustainability challenges and/or themes pertaining to just transitions. The workshop will have a strong emphasis on (1) building on existing collaborations; (2) partnership-building and developing new collaborations between early career researchers (ECRs) and more senior academic colleagues to help develop research partnerships (e.g. co-publications, joint research projects); and (3) providing continuity for the work undertaken during the December 2024 Kyushu RENKEI climate/ energy workshop to help secure external research funding.

The workshop is intended to provide an informal and constructive setting for early-career researchers to:

• Develop and shape the existing RENKEI network further to advance the theme of just transitions, with an intergenerational focus.
• Take stock of progress and showcase research proposals from the Kyushu RENKEI climate/ energy workshop.
• Identify and present joint research projects for external research funding, which will be pitched at the end of the workshop and developed further by RENEKI teams.
• Share Durham, the UK and Japan’s approach and strategic vision for sustainability and just transition research.

The overall goal is to develop inter-disciplinary co-publications and research proposals, building on the Kyushu workshop, including from external research funding sources.

During the workshop, RENKEI researchers will be put into groups to prepare a research proposal on Just Transitions, which will be pitched to a mock grant panel on Friday, 9 May 2025.

Please have a look at the RENKEI Welcome Pack 2025

For more information, feel free to contact:

Professor Petra Minnerop

Professor Laura Marsiliani

Professor Brian Castellani  

Dr John Bothwell 

Dr Nelly Bencomo 

Peter Bainbridge 

Dr Owen Boyle

Ghulam Mustafa Kamran