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Brighton researchers to pioneer DNA-based tool for tracking water pollution

  Brighton researchers to pioneer DNA-based tool for tracking water pollution Scientists in the University’s Centre for Environment and Society are leading a £950,000 national project, funded by the National Environment Research Council (NERC), to develop a new “forensic” diagnostic… Continue Reading →

Dr Corina Coican talking to BBC1 team (including Neil Jones – Strictly Come Dancing star

Corina Ciocan – Morning Live.mp4    

Our latest Centre for Environment and Society Newsletter

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Our work to improve access to safe sanitation – World Toilet Day 2025

The theme of this year’s World Toilet Day – ‘We’ll always need the toilet’ – calls for action to protect and expand access to sanitation in the face of mounting challenges such as ageing infrastructure, rising demand, low investment, and… Continue Reading →

SBL Research Seminar 18 November 15.00-16.00 hours Elm House 503

SBL Research Seminar: 18/11/2025 3:00 P.M.–4:00 P.M.: Elm House 503 What future for tourism places in renewable energy transitions?   Dr Solène Prince – Associate Professor in Tourism Studies, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Kalmar Sweden  Abstract: Renewable… Continue Reading →

Mapping End of Life Boats, Creative Practice and Policy Advocacy 7 November

🔴 LIVE: Citizen Science Webinar with Dr. Corina Ciocan & Angie Richard | Regenerative Tides

Creating a Floating Stories Lab with Angie Richard Seminar 10 November @ 13.00 to 14.00 Elm House 104

The Floating Stories Lab (FSL) is a French non-profit association, hand-building a 41-foot Polynesian-inspired wooden catamaran as a voyaging platform for storytelling, citizen science, and ecological research. Join co-founder Angie Richard—producer of Women & the Wind documentary and ambassador for the… Continue Reading →

Our fibreglass pollution research is to be embedded in the school ‘Euro’ curriculum

Dr Corina Ciocan visited the Collège du Bois de Locquéran in Brittany, as part of a plan to embed her fibreglass pollution research in school curricula in England and France. She and Angie Richard of The Floating Stories Lab were… Continue Reading →

Celebrating Saltmarsh Science and Collaboration at the 2025 UK Saltmarsh Forum

Dr Heidi Burgess recently attended the 2025 UK Saltmarsh Forum, a key annual event that brings together policymakers, government agencies, academics, NGOs, and businesses from across the UK to share knowledge and shape the future of saltmarsh conservation. In his… Continue Reading →

CES launch event, June 2025

The University of Brighton’s newest centre of research excellence, the Centre for Environment and Society (CES) was officially launched at an event held at the university on Friday 27 June 2025. The CES launch event was opened by the university’s… Continue Reading →

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