PERC extends deepest congratulations to MA Art and Science student Hannah Scott, who was awarded the MullenLowe NOVA Award Runner Up. The awards recognise and showcase promising talent in creativity, and celebrate innovators and risk takers. Hannah’s work “explores the relationship between consumer lifestyle in Britain and the Arctic environment, with particular focus on the impact of plastic waste.” Hannah’s …
Think Beyond Plastic and UN Environment Launch Innovation Challenge on Marine Litter
The UN Environment (UNEP) and Think Beyond Plastic have launched an innovation competition, which invites university students to develop solutions to the problem of marine litter. Presentations can relate to engineering and design, communications, economics, and prediction and recovery. The winners will will be announced at the Sixth International Marine Debris Conference, which will take place the 12-16 March 2018 …
Wageningen University Visit
On April 25, 2017, Dr. Trisia Farrelly, Co-director of Massey’s Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) visited Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Dr Farrelly’s visit, to the Sociology of Development and Change (SDC)/ Centre for Space Place and Society (CSPS) and the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), included a forum discussion she held to explore how Massey’s PERC membership could work collaboratively with other individuals and …
PERC Student Profile: Thomas Robertson
Thomas is a social anthropologist based in Australia who completed his MA at Massey University in 2016. Thomas’ broad interest is in complex environmental problems which require interdisciplinary perspectives to approach, and he has conducted research on interdisciplinarity itself. Thomas holds a BA/BSc in social anthropology/nanoscience, and an MA in social anthropology from Massey University, New Zealand. Recently having finished …
Final Call For Papers: The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic
Final Call for Papers The Lives and Afterlives of Plastics: A Nearly Carbon Neutral Conference June 26th – July 14th 2017 Keynotes Richard C. Thompson, Professor of Marine Biology, Plymouth University Gay Hawkins, Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University Ian C. Shaw, Professor of Toxicology, University of Canterbury More plastic was produced in the past decade than during the …
