Professor Mark Harvey has been invited to be a Visiting Scholar at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan to facilitate collaborative research on sustainable consumption and bottled water, with Dr William Li, a graduate from the Department of Sociology.
The collaboration stemmed from a job posting to the Department’s Twitter and Facebook feeds for a research officer to support Professor Harvey’s ESRC funded project on bottled water. Read the rest of this entry »
A number of papers have recently been published by CRESI staff and colleagues on the issue of bio-fuels.
The first, by Sarah Pilgrim and Mark Harvey reports a series of interviews with staff at a number of NGOs (Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, RSPB, Friends of the Earth) and suggests that in many cases the development of NGO policy has been driven more by narrow political opportunities for influence than by broader and more coherent policy responses to global climate change or economic development, or indeed rigorous assessment of the scientific evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
Writing in the 29th October 2010 issue of Science Mark Harvey and co-authors outline how the development of powerful, high-throughput technologies, together with globalization of scientific research, presents the biomedical research community with unprecedented challenges for the management, archiving, and distribution of data and bioresources. In this context scientific progress depends on efficient and open sharing to generate maximum value.
They suggest that despite this the provision of public funding for these long-term repositories does not fall into the traditional model of science funding and so although funding agencies may exhort their experimental investigators to develop a “dissemination plan” for the data and bioresources they develop, in reality, such requirements are often not fulfilled with few if any consequences. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Harvey‘s research featured at a Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Biofuel seminar at the Royal Society on 22nd July 2010.
“Mark echoed what other speakers also noted that in order to deliver a transition to sustainable transport energy strong, long-term strategic political direction is required, together with strong state support and steering from basic science to commercialisation. ‘Market signals will not drive radical, comprehensive or urgent technological change,’ he added.” Read more coverage of the seminar from the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).
In collaboration with colleagues at a number of Universities including Manchester, Lancaster and Edinburgh, CRESI’s Professor Mark Harvey and Dr Ben Anderson have secured substantial ESRC funding to develop their work on sustainable consumption as part of the Sustainable Practices Research Group of the ESRC Sustainable Behaviour Group.
(Joint CRESI & Sociology Seminar)
Prof. John Urry from University of Lancaster
At 16:00 in Room 6.345 (Department of Sociology).
Abstract: An examination of whether and to what degree the increasingly mobile twentieth century may not continue into the foreseeable future. Is mass movement a historically contingent period of human history? Read the rest of this entry »
Ted Benton & Mark Harvey from the Department of Sociology, University of Essex
Date: Thursday 22nd October 2009
At 16:00 in Room 6.345, Dept. of Sociology, University of Essex. Read the rest of this entry »
Prof. Mark Harvey and Dr Ben Anderson are to lead ground-breaking research as part of a programme of cross-university ‘Global Challenges‘ projects. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Harvey and Andrew McMeekin’s book “Public or Private Economies of Knowledge: Turbulence in the biological sciences” has just been published by Edward Elgar. 
CRESI Director Mark Harvey has been awarded a £256K ESRC grant to investigate innovation for and expectations of the future transition to a sustainable bio-economy Read the rest of this entry »
