Insights Wales | Cipolwg Cymru 2025-2026

🌍 Weekly Environmental Knowledge Exchange Webinar
📅 Wednesdays | 🕐 13:00–14:00 GMT
🔗 Click here to join the weekly meeting on MS Teams


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?

2021/222022/232023/242024/252025/26

Upcoming Talks

DatePresenterTitle/Subject of Presentation
13/05/2026Jonathan Pickering | Chartered Institute of Environmental Health;
Karen Fulford | Welsh Government
Noise and Soundscapes
20/05/2026Dr Jamila La Malfa-Donaldson | Aberystwyth UniversityIndustrial Hemp
27/05/2026Severn Estuary Partnership (SEP)Future Proofing the Severn Estuary project
03/06/2026David Lee | USW & Welsh GovernmentWelsh government biodiversity targets
10/06/2026Molly Hadley | Cardiff University
& Kate Herridge | Bangor University
Emerging Chemical and Pathogen Risks in Welsh Rivers
17/06/2026Jill Davies | Cardiff Met &
Dr Zheng Liu | Greenwich University
Pathways towards a Circular Economy
24/06/2026Saman Sobhani | Aberystwyth University & co-presenterValuing Cardiff’s Green Spaces for Multispecies Justice
01/07/2026Mingda Li | Cardiff University & co-presenterPersonal and environmental effects on outdoor thermal comfort
08/07/2026Sina Younesi | Swansea University
& co-presenter
Recovering and valorising residues from drinking water treatment processes
15/07/2026Joe Williams | Bristol University (Formerly Cardiff University)
& co-presenter
AI metabolism: Water and energy consumption of Artificial Intelligence
22/07/2026Prof. Zhiwen Luo & Dr Chunde LiuHeat resilient dairy building design
29/07/2026Mariecia Fraser | Aberystwyth UniversityImpacts of grazing on biodiversity: facts and fiction

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