News in 2015
- Age-friendly cities 15 December 2015 Currently, there is little opportunity for people of different generations to connect with each other outside the family unit. This project is looking at ways to foster community spirit by digital innovation and creating a sustainable future that is shared across generations.
- Delivering the ‘Future City’: Does Bristol have the capacities it needs? 15 December 2015 In Bristol’s 2015 European Green Capital year, the Cabot Institute has been working with partners across the city for a series of conversations to examine how Bristol might develop in the future.
- Preparing people for a digital future 15 December 2015 Lack of education in environmental issues poses a real and prevalent threat to citizens and their cities. If the right technologies can be properly harnessed then development can be resilient, sustainable and responsive to the changing environment both within and outside of the city. However the number of people with the skillsets required to use these technologies are presently inadequate. Cabot Institute academics are addressing this issue by increasing awareness in the need for digital skills.
- Borneo Challenge: Tracking orangutans using drones 3 December 2015 Funded by Cabot Institute Innovation Funds, this project aims to track orangutans in Borneo using drones.
- Modelling urban flood risk in developing countries 3 December 2015 This project, funded by the Cabot Institute Innovation Fund, aims to substantially improve urban risk modelling for developing countries
- Crocodile walking school bus smart-phone application 3 December 2015 Funded by Cabot Institute Innovation Funds, this project is aimed at increasing active travel and reducing car journeys to school. It will improve an existing 'Crocodile' app designed to help families schedule walking school bus trips for their primary school aged children.
- Community-based monitoring of volcanic ash hazard 3 December 2015 Funded by Cabot Institute Innovation Funds, this study developed community ash sampling programs in Guatemala to help forecast future eruptions of Volcan de Fuego.
- Transition Engineering: Exploring future pathways to sustainable resource consumption 3 December 2015 This project, supported by Cabot Institute Innovation Funds, aimed to provide a landmark series of seminars on the theme of Transition Engineering, drawing on contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from across the globe.
- Geology for Global Development – 2015/16 Research and Development Engagement Workshops 3 December 2015 Supported by Cabot Institute Innovation Funds, the Geology for Global Development Group's project is aiming to make it bigger and better for 2016 and to make a real contribution to international development across the world.
- Green and Black- An alternative green capital 3 December 2015 This project aims to kickstart a long term series of activities and relationships with BAME communities around the legacy of the European Green Capital year.
- Understanding man-made earthquakes, their ground motions and building vulnerability in the UK 3 December 2015 Funded by the Cabot Institute Innovation Fund 2015, this interdisciplinary project will focus on the risk of man-made earthquakes in the UK.
- International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF) 24 November 2015 Infrastructure systems include things such as electric power, oil and gas, water and wastewater, communications, transportation, and the collections of buildings that make up urban and rural communities. These systems are increasingly relying on each other in order to operate – also known as interdependency. The University of Bristol is part of this centre which will enable social scientists, engineers, industrialists, policy makers and other stakeholders to research and learn together to understand how better to exploit the technical and market opportunities that emerge from the increased interdependence of infrastructure systems.
- Making the move to local manufacturing 19 November 2015 Cabot Institute professor Chris McMahon is leading the way for Bristol to move to smaller and more localised manufacturing in the city.