🌍 Weekly Environmental Knowledge Exchange Webinar
📅 Wednesdays | 🕐 13:00–14:00 GMT
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Join us: Share Your Research & Connect
- Are you looking to enhance the visibility of your research?
- Do you want to build connections with researchers, policymakers, academics, and evidence users?
We’re now scheduling speakers for the 2025–2026 series of our weekly ‘Insights Wales – Cipolwg Cymru’ webinars – please get in touch if you would be interested in sharing your research, or evidence needs.
About the Webinars
Now in its fifth series, Insights Wales – Cipolwg Cymru offers an engaging online platform to present your research findings or evidence needs. Each session helps bridge the gap between research and policy, illuminating the work being done across Wales and highlighting the evidence needs of Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
Webinar Format
- Hosted by Andy Schofield (EPW Director) and/or Catherine Arnold (EPW Partnership Officer)
- 30–40 minute presentation (solo or paired talks)
- Followed by Q&A and open discussion
- Alternative formats e.g. workshop, consultation also considered
Recordings of Previous Talks
Want to explore previous sessions?
Upcoming Talks
| Date | Presenter | Title/Subject of Presentation |
| 29/10/2025 | Carl Gough | Seagrass Network Cymru | National Seagrass Action Plan |
| 05/11/2025 | Pete Bunting | Aberystwyth University | Global Mangrove Watch |
| 12/11/2025 | Rawan Jafar | Cardiff University | A Framework for Optimising the CO₂ Reduction Performance of Green Walls Using Machine Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms |
| 19/11/2025 | Lydia Gaskell | The Carbon Literacy Project; Laura Berks | Waterwise; Matt Woodthorpe | EAUC (The Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education) | Environmental Literacy for Universities: Carbon Literacy, Water Literacy & more |
| 26/11/2025 | Future of UK Treescapes | Treescapes: Welsh branch of research |
| 03/12/2025 | Catherine Purcell | Active TraveL ReseArch ConSortium (ATLAS) | Cardiff University | Measuring Active Travel: A review of UK metrics |
| 10/12/2025 | Dr Issam Damaj | Cardiff Metropolitan University Dr. Mekouar & Dr Iraqi | UM6P | Empowering Women’s Climate Resilience through Technology and Cross-Border Research |
| 14/01/2026 | Kata Farkas | Water Research Centre | Tracking faecal contamination in water |
| 21/01/2026 | Alys Morris | Severn Estuary Partnership | Data and Evidence Plans – research needs priorities |
| 28/01/2026 | Salamatu Fada | Bangor University | Welsh Government | Eryri National Park Authority | Anti-Racist Action Plan for Environment, Climate Change & Rural Affairs: Research, Evidence and the Way Forward |
| 11/02/2026 | Ffion Evans | University of Gloucestershire | Bangor University | Exploring farmers’ decision-making and behaviours towards adopting circular agricultural practices |
| 18/02/2026 | Prof Stephen Tooth | Aberystwyth University | Creative approaches to create river engagement |
| 18/03/2026 | Prof Susan Baker | Cardiff University & Dr Natasha Constant | RSPB | STAND: Designing and governing treescape expansion across scales to benefit people and nature |
| 15/04/2026 | Anna Jones | Pembrokeshire Coast | Experience Cymru Differently – helping people with sight loss to access designated landscapes |