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 was on ‘ Strategic Coastal Monitoring – a Resource for Resilience’. With a presentation by Dr Charlie Thompson, Director, Channel Coastal Observatory, University of Southampton The webinar was chaired by the Coast-R Network’s Prof Stuart McLelland. Stuart is Deputy Director … 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 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

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

Reporting on the TRACC retreat in Greenwich

A sandy beach with a turquoise beacon

The team from the Transformative Research Actions for resilient Coastal Communities (TRACC) project met in Greenwich from 10-12 March for their second project retreat. The TRACC project will explore and implement new transformative place- and values-based ways of governing coastal resilience and sustainability across Mid-North Wales, the Firth of Clyde (Scotland), Lough Foyle (Ireland), and … Read more

Building dialogue and collaboration for coastal resilience

Participants in the Aberystwyth Workshop

On 5-7 of March, 20 researchers from across the UK gathered in Aberystwyth for an intensive training in dialogue and engagement. Hosted by the Aberystwyth University Dialogue Centre, their Principal Lead, Dr Jennifer Wolowic recounts how the workshop equipped participants with foundations for hosting meaningful conversations and running workshops as part of their work with … Read more

Exploring diverse understanding and knowledge within the ReCCS projects

Close up of two puffins

A January online workshop update from Dr Kate Smith of the University of Hull, with news of the new Coast-R Network webinar series. Following the success of our in-person Coast-R Network event in Hull in November we were keen to maintain the launch event’s energy and enthusiasm by starting to deliver our ongoing programme of … Read more

In Therapy with North Sea 

Artist Solmaz Farhang in goggles and a green net hat and green swimming costume holding a glass containing a blue fish

Climate-inspired artist co-commission opens at Humber Street Gallery   Visitors to Hull’s Humber Street Gallery are invited to an unconventional encounter with the North Sea and an exploration of our coexistence.   The exhibition from interdisciplinary artist Solmaz Farhang, was co-commissioned by the University of Hull and Humber Street Gallery and opens with an evening preview on … Read more

Launching the Coast-R Network and the Resilient Coastal Communities and Seas Programme

Delegated networking

Prof Briony McDonagh, UK National Lead for the Coast-R Network reflects on our November launch event at the University of Hull. On Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th November, we welcomed more than 140 people to Hull to launch the UKRI and DEFRA-funded Resilient Coastal Communities and Seas Programme and the coordinating Coast-R Network. The acronym … Read more