Friday, November 12, 2010

British Academy update

Time for an update on the project...

We've completed the joint working paper, now available on ssrn.

Our next expert meeting takes place in Edinburgh on 10 December 2010, and I'm delighted that in addition to the new names posted on the website we will also be welcoming James McLean of Burness and Kevin Houston of the University of Edinburgh. Also many thanks to Edward Elgar for issuing a contract in respect of the edited collection which will result next year, building on the December meeting.

Progress also on the public engagement side, with Patrick Harvie MSP and Adam Bruce, and hopefully a student activist from the University of Edinburgh to speak at "Who Controls Climate Change?" at the Edinburgh International Science Festival on (provisionally) 13 April 2011. Hopefully, the event will be accompanied by artwork from two Aberdeen primary schools - many thanks to them so far for your interest.

And from the substantive side, I've been honoured to have just spent a week as an Econoving Global Fellow at the Universud-Paris; discussing essential technologies with an ecological economist, a scientist and a legal theorist proved highly stimulating and challenging.