1:00 – 2:00pm, Wed 21 October 2026, online Dr Karen Alexander, Heriot-Watt University and Project Lead – TRANSECTS The transition to net zero is reshaping coastal communities, creating opportunities and social, cultural and environmental challenges. The TRANSECTS project is exploring the impacts of energy transitions on coastal communities and seas using an interdisciplinary framework which … Read more
12:00 – 1:00pm, Wed 16 September 2026, online Speaker: Professor Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, ARISE, University of Essex UK coastal communities offer cultural, economic, and social diversity to the country, yet exhibit lower levels of health, wellbeing, and income compared to their inland counterparts. These communities are now at risk from climate-related hazards such flooding and … Read more
12:00 – 1:30pm, Thursday 2 July 2026, online Across the UK there are > 20000 legacy landfill sites which predate the regulatory requirements and engineering design to protect surrounding environments and people from the wastes they contain. These are now at risk from climate-related hazards including flooding, rising groundwater, increased precipitation, sea level rise and … Read more
Interest in rewilding our coasts has surged in recent years, as communities and scientists alike recognise the power of restoring saltmarshes, seagrass meadows, and mudflats to revive nature and protect shorelines from climate impacts. Dr Charlotte Hopkins, Senior Lecturer in Marine Conservation at the University of Hull and member of the Coast-R Network team, tells … Read more
Our new report is now out for discussion with the Coast-R Network community of practice and we’d love to hear from you. The report addresses Coastal Change and Transition, and its impacts on coastal communities and the natural capital of our coastal zones. It draws on our learnings in Year 1 of the Coast-R programme … Read more
Dr Katherine Simpson of the University of Glasgow and Lewis Coenen-Rowe of Culture for Climate Scotland reflect on two interactive workshops from our recent Annual Forum and look towards next steps. In early September, as part of the Coast-R Network Annual Conference in Glasgow, we brought together around 120 people from across disciplines, sectors, and … Read more
Refrains: enough is enough Less discussion, more decision-making. Less talk, more action. Less theory, more practice. These were strong refrains in the presentations, workshops, and informal conversations across the Coast-R Annual Forum in Glasgow in September 2025. We have enough data, we hold enough knowledge and it’s time—and beyond timely—to start doing more! And so … Read more
We’re delighted to announce that we have launched the first round of the Coast-R Network Small Grants Fund, with awards of between £5,000 and £25,000 to support UK coastal resilience. Round 1 of the Small Grants Fund (SGF) will support small scale, place-based projects involving early career researchers in two-way (or multi-way) research and knowledge … Read more
Petra Codato is a third year PhD researcher working on coastal transition, and based in the Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull. She is funded by the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Centre for Water Cultures and her supervisors are Briony McDonagh, Gill Hughes and Kate Smith. My focus is on how to use participatory … Read more
Our Coast-R Network colleague, Professor Larissa Naylor has taken a key role in developing new CIRIA guidance – Greening coastal infrastructure through eco-engineering (C820). This is the first practitioner-led publication of its kind, focused on enhancing the biodiversity and multifunctionality of engineered coastal assets through eco-engineering approaches. Larissa is Professor of Geomorphology and Environmental Geography … Read more
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