Leeds, UCL and Exeter offer excellent opportunities for students to engage with a wide range of other centres and networks.
The Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) draws together world-class expertise around a focused programme of joint research to tackle key challenges in weather and climate science and prediction. Leeds, UCL and Exeter are all active members of MOAP, with many collaborative projects and events for UNRISK students to engage with.
The Priestley Centre for Climate Futures is world-leading climate centre based at the University of Leeds. It brings together a community of experts from across disciplines including engineering, finance, health, economics, cultural studies, law, and atmospheric sciences. By connecting this expertise, and working in partnership with external organisations, it addresses a range of climate challenges and provides evidence to drive the action required to secure a safe future for us all.
The Institute for Data Science and AI at the University of Exeter brings together expertise across Exeter including an Environmental Intelligence theme.
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, and is a formal partner in UNRISK. The Uncertainty Quantification interest group is co-led by two members of UNRISK, Daniel Williamson at Exeter and Serge Guillas at UCL. As a student in UNRISK you will have the opportunity to participate in many ATI events.
water@leeds is one of the largest interdisciplinary centres for water research in any university in the world. It draws together over 500 academics and postgraduates from across the University to deliver excellent, internationally leading water science, technology and policy research. water@leeds runs many network events that will be open to UNRISK students.
UCL’s Grand Challenges on Climate Crisis and Data-empowered Societies bring together researchers from across the university, supporting interdisciplinary networks and offering opportunities for ECRs to access small grants and develop partnerships.
The UCL Climate Action Unit works to change how scientists, policymakers, businesses, media, civil society organisations and citizens engage with each other about climate change. Their themes on climate risk and communication are particularly relevant to UNRISK’s decision support objective.
