The School provided fully-funded places for 25 researchers who all gave presentations focused on the business impact of their current research activities. All the presentations from the participants may be viewed via the links below together with a number of individual blogs:
Tomas Badura - CSERGE, University of East Anglia
Desperately Seeking Space for Nature: an interdisciplinary spatial analysis of biodiversity in changing landscape
Francesca Baylis - Royal Holloway University of London
Producing “Greener” Better Sports Turf Through Soil Microbial Management Presentation
Yvonne Black - Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull
The connections between urban green spaces and health and wellbeing
Boris Bongalov - University of Cambridge
Studying Tropical Forests up from the Skies
Robert Collier - University of Southampton
Peatland carbon accumulation: can palaeoenvironmental investigations promote sound ecosystem management?
Gemma Delafield - University of Exeter
Optimal spatial design of energy policies considering environmental impacts
Marta Giannichi - University of Leeds School of Geography
Empirical and spatial analysis of tradable permits in private forest conservation
Catherine Gutmann Roberts - Bournemouth University
Population ecology and behaviour of European barbel Barbus barbus, a recreationally important, translocated fish
Blog - The world. Our world. My world. Blog - The Water Cycle.
Adam Kennerley - University of East Anglia
Jellyfish Bloom Risk and Management Implication in Northern Europe
Matluba Khan - University of Edinburgh
Environment, Engagement and Education: Investigating the relationship between primary school grounds and children’s learning: a case study from Bangladesh
Phoebe Maund - UCL/ Brunel University
The Environment, the epigenome and us
Eileen Mitchell - Queen's University
Eating habits, obesity, physical activity: behavioural economics and discrete choice experiments
Blog - First Business Impact School Blog!
Polly Moseley - Liverpool John Moores University
Operationalising Natural Capital to Inform Decision-Making in Business
Kathryn A O'Shaughnessy Plymouth University
The World Harbour Project and eco-engineering of coastal infrastructure: a design for life
Blog - Dabbling in others’ projects and interests.
Jack Parsons - Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
Thesis Title: Regulation of Root Attachment in Rhizobium
Xavier Pierron - University of Southampton / Coventry Business School
Using Behavioural Economics to exploit Distinct Urban Mines
Richard Randle-Boggis - Lancaster University
SPIES: Solar Park Impacts on Ecosystem Services
Thomas Smith - University of Leeds
Why are businesses involved in biodiversity?
Lauriane Suyin Chalmin-Pui - University of Sheffield & the Royal Horticultural Society
Do front garden landscapes influence health and well-being?
Alexa Varah - ZSL - Institute of Zoology
Why are businesses involved in biodiversity?
George Vittis - University of Reading, School of Agriculture Policy and Development
Spatial components of sustainability in UK beef and sheep farming
Blog - Thoughts on the VN Business Impact School.
Samuel Wharton - University of Leicester
Energy Flow in the Magnetosphere Blog - Not just a business school, but a school of ideas!
Likun Yang - Cardiff University
Design Method of Ecological Sustainability for Abandoned Industrial Buildings (in Northern China)
Nicola Yeo - University of Exeter & European Centre for Environment and Human Health
Virtual bluespace for health & wellbeing
Marios Zachariou - Queen's University Belfast
Valuing the health benefits of green infrastructure improvements for making life better at Musgrave Park Hospital