Navigating coastal, marine and environmental careers: explore and connect

Two birds sit on a grassy cliff with the sea behind

12:00–13:30pm, Thurs 30 October 2025, online Join us for this interactive online event bringing together students, recent graduates, early career researchers, and professionals to explore career pathways across the coastal, marine and environmental sectors. Through a panel discussion featuring speakers from across consultancy, local government, and professional bodies, you’ll hear how each panellist built their … Read more

Coast-R Information and Q&A Session: Small Grants Fund Round 1

Graphic with event title and date Introduction to our Small Grants Fund 7 October 2025

11am-12noon, Tues 7 October 2025, online Applications to the first round of the Coast-R Network Small Grants Fund are open until 4pm on 31 October 2025. Round 1 of our Small Grants Fund will offer awards of between £5,000 & £25,000 to support small scale, place-based projects. These must involve early career researchers in two-way … Read more

Coast-R Webinar – Strategic Coastal Monitoring – a Resource for Resilience

2-3pm, Wed 17 September 2025, online The fourth session in our Coast-R Network Webinars Series is on ‘ Strategic Coastal Monitoring – a Resource for Resilience’. We look forward to welcoming: The webinar will be chaired by the Coast-R Network’s Prof Stuart McLelland. Stuart is Deputy Director of the Energy and Environment Institute at the … Read more

Coast-R Annual Forum 2025: Co-creating Resilient Coasts

The River Kelvin Glasgow

11-12 September 2025 University of Glasgow How can we work well together across interfaces to build more resilient coastal communities and seas? *Interfaces refer to working with communities of people across the dynamic land-sea interface to co-create practices to help society shift to live more resiliently with our changing coastal seas. Join us for the … Read more

Call-out for contributors to the RACC Solutions Hackathon

Participants in a hackathon event gathered around a table

Join the Resilience of Anthropocene Coasts and Communities project team and collaborators from across the country. Help identify solutions to increase coastal communities and ecosystem resilience to the compound risks of climate change, coastal flooding/erosion, and the UK’s historic waste disposal. What is the issue? As sea levels rise and severe weather events become more … Read more

Coast-R Webinar – Crafting the Shore and the SMMR Programme

2-3pm, Tues 15 July 2025, online The third session in our Coast-R Network Webinars Series is on ‘Crafting the Shore’ and ‘The Sustainable Management of UK Marine Resources Programme’. We look forward to welcoming: The webinar will be chaired by the Coast-R Network’s Prof Stuart McLelland. Stuart is Deputy Director of the Energy and Environment … Read more

The Stràilleach Golamas: getting to grips with the reality of beached marine litter

A beach strewn with litter including a yellow plastic duck

A solutions-oriented, interdisciplinary, interprofessional meeting 10.30am-4pm, 26 June 2025 University of Glasgow Important deadline: register your interest by Friday, 30th May (more info below) Purpose The aim of this event is to bring together experts from across disciplines and sectors to think differently about the persistent challenge of removing plastic waste from coastal litter sinks … Read more

Coast-R Webinar co-organised with the LGA Coastal SIG

Coast-R Network webinar graphic

2-3pm, 11 June 2025, online The second session in our new Coast-R Network Webinars Series is a collaboration with the Local Government Association’s Coastal Special Interest Group. We will present three speakers on diverse projects relating to sustainability of our coasts and ports. We look forward to welcoming: The webinar will be chaired by the … Read more