🧠 Curious about the conversations shaping Scotland’s research future? We’re launching a blog series with Prof. Mette High spotlighting cross-sector collaboration. Kicking off with insights from Prof. Tom Brown, VP at the University of St Andrews! www.energy-homes-livelihoods.ac.uk/2025/11/06/s...

📣 Calling all cooks, storytellers and food lovers in Scotland! SCAF is inviting you to submit a recipe and short story to celebrate the diversity of food 🍴 Prizes are available & selected entries will feature in a “Recipes & Stories” collection ✨ 📅 Deadline: 16/01/2026

🔊 Calling Emerging Research Leaders! Public Engagement & Research Impact Workshop is NOW OPEN for applications 🚨 📅 28–30 January 2026 📍 The Burn 💸 Free of charge This 3-day residential workshop will introduce the concept of public engagement and how it can enhance the impact of your research 💡

The UK’s biggest festival for a zero-carbon built environment will play host to transformative discussion and knowledge exchange on breaking through barriers to accelerate our journey to net zero carbon. ➡️ Book your ticket: buff.ly/dcxaEXI 📆 Thursday 6 Nov 📍 Paisley Town Hall

That’s a wrap on our inaugural Annual Event! 🎉 Local authorities, researchers, industry leaders, and community partners from across Scotland joined us yesterday to explore the opportunities and challenges in implementing Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES) 💡 More to come! #EHL2025

📣 Introducing Race Against Dementia: Data Challenge II Join our launch to learn more about how we're broadening dementia and brain health research through access to rich, innovative datasets with unparalleled academic and technical support, free of charge. ➡️ bit.ly/4mTg3Og #DataChallengeII 🧠

🥁 It's 2 weeks until our inaugural Annual Event! Final call to join us for a day of networking, engaging discussions, and working together to drive the future of local heat and energy efficiency. Who could say it better than our Director, @mettehigh.bsky.social? 👏 #NetZeroScotland #SRAEHL2025

📢 Quantum Solutions for Food & Nutrition Workshop - Rescheduled Date! Alongside @scafarc.bsky.social, we're hosting a collaborative workshop for anyone in research, development or innovation across fields & disciplines who has an interest in developing research projects within this space🍴🚀

🎧 Van Dwelling Podcast Episode It’s been a pleasure to support the 'Van Dwelling' team through their initial activities. We wish them all the very best in their exciting future endeavours! 💬 Tune in to hear their reflections, insights, and stories in this brilliant podcast episode: pod.fo/e/312f7f

We're joining a roundtable of local government officers from across Scotland to explore how to deliver a Just Transition locally. Join the online event, hosted by @improvserv.bsky.social, to learn and shape how policy is turned into practice. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/just-trans...

📢 We’re inviting expressions of interest for the Advancing Ethical Finance through Research Innovation roundtable event! This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with researchers, policymakers, & strategic partners working at the intersection of climate change & co-benefits mapping visualisation💡

Are you researching energy systems at the margins? Show us how transformation unfolds -or fails- on the edge, at the upcoming Energy Ethics 2026 conference, St Andrews. CfP for our panel 'Island Energy Vs Energy Islands" at energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/open-... @energy-ethics.bsky.social

📰 Catch up on our June newsletter! Sharing news, opportunities, and upcoming events, this edition recaps the fantastic work carried out by our wider team and how you can get involved. 🌟 👉 Read here: bit.ly/4kWzhSt 📬 Subscribe here: bit.ly/4mZR4cF #NetZeroScotland #StrongerTogether

🌟 ALLIANCE SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Providing counsel on strategy and the implementation of plans and progress, our board comprises of subject matter experts and represents key cross-sectoral stakeholders 🌍 Our second spotlight is on Iain McCreaddie, Programme Director at Scottish Cities Alliance (SCA)! 👏

Join us for an exclusive online webinar of ALCHEMAI - an ambitious project, funded by InnovateUK bringing together industry partners from across the UK. 📍 Online 📆 Jun 19, 2025, 10am - 11am 🔗 buff.ly/HGrrXaj

🚨 We are inviting members of the public to work with the SCAF team to contribute to food-related research. 👋🏼 The Academy of Citizens will support citizen-led research and engagement across the food landscape. 💡 ⏰ Deadline to apply: Friday 30 May 👉 Find out more: bit.ly/4jYFsoj #foodstudies

‪🌟 ALLIANCE SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Providing counsel on strategy and the implementation of plans and progress, our board comprises of subject matter experts and represents key cross-sectoral stakeholders 🌍 Our first spotlight is on Emma Church, Impact Manager at @be-stbuild.bsky.social!

We recently hosted our second Decarbonising Heat Crucible! 💥 The 3-day residential workshop in North Queensferry invited experts from academia, supply chain companies and beyond to support 3 local authorities in decarbonising social housing and other challenging sites. Full story ➡️ bit.ly/45ahVMz

📢 Save the date! Our annual event will unite local authorities with experts from academia, industry, government, and local communities to share knowledge, discuss trends and challenges, and provide networking opportunities. 💡 📆 Wed 10 September 🎫: bit.ly/456ZCI2 #EHL2025 #NetZeroScotland

📢 Join us for the launch of the UK Co-Benefits Atlas! How can we visualise the co-benefits of climate action? And, can these visualisations advance the integration of co-benefits into climate change policies, programmes, and projects? ✅ Find out more & register: bit.ly/3Eciz1f #NetZeroScotland

Our 3MPlanet Competition Final is coming up! If you are in or around @uniofstandrews.bsky.social next week, come & check out the final of our annual undergraduate research competition. 👉 tinyurl.com/mu4xd3rp 1530 - 1630 BST, Thurs 24 April In-Person online Check out the link above for more info

🌟 Scotland Beyond Net Zero seed funding is open! 🌟 Up to £15k is available to academics from participating universities for projects which foster collaborations while maximising the impact of research and help drive towards net zero in Scotland 🌱 Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4cmjR6i #NetZeroScotland

📢 Call for expressions of interest! We look forward to a collaborative workshop with @quantum-alliance.bsky.social on the interface between quantum solutions and food and nutrition innovation 🚀 The event will include short talks, breakout discussions and networking sessions. ➡️ bit.ly/42mUXPx

Did you know you can catch up on our event series over on the CEE YouTube channel? Our recent Energy Cafe 'Whose Transition? Weighing the costs of critical raw material extraction' hosted by Gerti Saxinger and Emma Wilson is now available. Check it out 👇👇 #Energy #Justice youtu.be/CVtwD7GBxp8

💡 Do you have an idea for a webinar topic? The Alliances for Research Challenges (ARCs) are welcoming broad topics, beyond speciality areas, that can resonate with people from a spectrum of fields, sectors, and career stages 🌅 Suggest a topic or speaker here ➡️ bit.ly/3XLlTHc

📢 There's less than 1 week left to apply for Financial Pathways seed funding! ⭐ Up to £10,000 available ⭐ Awards to be announced mid April ⭐ Submission deadline: 02/04/2025 More information and application here 👉 bit.ly/3X2gjzA #NetZeroScotland #SeedFunding

Project announcement... 🥁 The East Aryshire CoRE – BarShare Retrofit Demonstrator project, which will provide a real-world testing and evaluation of different retrofitting strategies, has received the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account cross-institutional award 👏 ➡️ bit.ly/41RKOuU #NetZeroScotland

📢 Financial Pathways seed funding is now open! 🌟 We provide seed funding to drive cross-sectoral research, acting as a catalyst in the process to support ideas from inception to reality 💭💰 Submission deadline: 02/04/2025 Find out more here 👉 bit.ly/3X2gjzA #NetZeroScotland #StrongerTogether

🚨 The expression of interest form for the upcoming Decarbonising Heat Crucible is closing soon! ⏳ We are still looking for a broad mix of participants from academia, supply chain, technology sectors, regulators, and planners... #NetZeroScotland

Home Energy Music 🌱 🎼 Musician Mhairi Hall and sound artist Karen Mair have refined and finalised their audio piece ‘Awakening', an Alliance seed funded project. We support a flexible scope of cross-sectoral research, assisting in the development of ideas from inception to implementation 💡

🌍 Decarbonising Heat Crucible 2025 🌍 An innovative event designed to support local authorities in decarbonising social housing and other challenging sites 💡 Register interest here 👉 bit.ly/3CNTOYj #NetZero

'Resolving the Energy Trilemma across the Scottish Islands': the results of my island energy research are now published as policy report + brief to inform future energy policy energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/senior-... @cescotland.bsky.social @energy-ethics.bsky.social @ehl-alliance.bsky.social

Are you interested in Energy, Climate and/or Sustainability Research? Follow our CEE Starter pack to link up with our wonderful, world-leading members and affiliates! #ClimateResearch @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #EnergyEthics go.bsky.app/TrnwWDZ

Congratulations to @jendickie.bsky.social, Co-Lead of our Decarbonising Heat theme, and the JUST-Systems project team for securing a share of £10M @ukri.org investment to tackle decarbonisation and fuel poverty! 👏 👏 👏 Full story on our website ➡️ bit.ly/40H6GYp

Financial Pathways Incubator 2: The Co-benefits of Decarbonisation 🌟 We spent an inspiring two days with a diverse group of stakeholders from government, academia, finance, and industry, discussing the co-benefits of decarbonisation interventions 💡 bit.ly/4gjUbry #FinPath25 #NetZeroScotland

Prof Zoe Shipton, Co-Lead for our Decarbonising Heat theme, was on BBC Radio #6music with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social last week! 🌟 Listen to the full interview (2 hours in) to take a deep dive into geothermal energy and explore what’s happening beneath our feet 👉 bit.ly/40qIzgh #GreenHeat

My recent Energy Blog post reflects on my ‘townhall’ events on different Scottish isles where local community groups, energy experts & residents discussed constraints to the National Grid for those 'at the end of the line'. tinyurl.com/37nws8az @energy-ethics.bsky.social @ehl-alliance.bsky.social

📢 Join the Alliances next week to hear from the author of You Are (Not) a Fraud: A Scientist's Guide to the Imposter Phenomenon, Dr Marc Reid 💡 Open to all disciplines & career stages 👋 Sign up for free 👉 bit.ly/3VK6upw @scafarc.bsky.social @brainhealtharc.bsky.social @ehl-alliance.bsky.social

This opportunity closes soon! Don't miss out on this chance to join us at the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

The Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes & Livelihoods, funded by the Scottish Funding Council, unites researchers across disciplines & institutions with industry, business, government, charities & communities. Sign up to our newsletter here 👇 www.energy-homes-livelihoods.ac.uk/contacts/

📢 Webinar announcement! Join the Alliances to hear from the author of You Are (Not) a Fraud: A Scientist's Guide to the Imposter Phenomenon, Dr Marc Reid 🌟 Open to everyone 👋 📅 Friday 24th January, 1pm ✅ bit.ly/3VK6upw @scafarc.bsky.social @brainhealtharc.bsky.social @ehl-alliance.bsky.social

Are you a Scottish Early Career Researcher working in #Energy, #ClimateChange, #Sustainability or a related field? Our friends and colleagues at @ehl-alliance.bsky.social are organising a media training workshop 27-29 Jan '25. Find details here 👇 www.energy-homes-livelihoods.ac.uk/event/emergi...

We are a diverse and inclusive network that brings together academics, industry, government bodies, charities and local communities to drive cross-sectoral research to achieve Scotland’s ambitious climate goal of achieving net zero by 2045 🌱🌍 Find out more on our new website! ➡️ bit.ly/3ZlUCLu