Outreach and networking

The Centres' outreach and networking activities with local, national and international partners harness a wide range of expertise from across the University within the field of climate change research. The purpose of the group is to help foster a culture of collaboration through building multidisciplinary approaches using expertise both within the University and with links to local, national and international educational, industrial, policy and other stakeholders.

The Centre for Climate Change Research and the University is an active partner of COP26 Universities Network.

Find out more about the COP26 Universities Network

Outreach and networking sector partners

We work closely with a large of partners in many sectors including the following:

local government authorities
transport operators
telecommunications
manufacturing
energy
government departments
data and analytics.

Our outreach and collaboration network

National and local government
Our national and local government partners, include:
- Hertfordshire County Council
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- Environment Agency, UK

Universities

University	Project
Brunel University London	CO2 power generation and refrigeration systems
Cardiff University	Co-Optimisation of fuel blend and combustion system in a systematic way in an ammonia fuelled thermal propulsion system with the aim of decarbonisation of transport
City University of London	Food policy
De Montfort University	Application of additive manufacturing towards materials optimisation/waste management
Durham University	Investigation of renewable energy with energy storage systems
Imperial College London	Development of novel electrochemical diagnostic techniques for low temperature fuel cells, electrochemical power sources and thermo management systems for battery cells and modules
Imperial College London	Environmental influences on Fusarium Head Blight
Oxford University	Environmental Change Institute
Royal Veterinary College	Joint funded research project
University College London	Recycling of mine tailings in the production of construction materials
University College London	Testing, characterisation and state-of-the-art diagnostics of batter cells and fuel cells
University of Bedfordshire	Impact of transportation on future air pollution
University of Birmingham	Zero Carbon Lab with installed instrumentation, thermal management of electric traction motors
University of Cambridge	Climate influences on atmospheric composition 2D materials for energy harvesting construction composites
University of Manchester	Particle instrumentation
University of Nottingham	Development of negative carbon emission technologies and environmental management
University of Plymouth	Holocene debris flow activity and environmental change
University of Portsmouth	Development of lightweight and high-performance sustainable composites for transport applications, damage detection and characterisation in composite structures, structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades for renewable and sustainable
University of Reading	Impact of climate change of future air pollution: predicting the effects of climate change on severity of crop disease epidemics allowing for adaptive change
University of Sheffield	Development of low carbon binders for construction
University of South Wales	Modelling of renewable energy combined with power generation system
University of Southampton	Holocene debris flow activity and environmental change in the English Lake District
University of Strathclyde	Future cities
University of Ulster	Holocene debris flow activity and environmental change

Research and commercial organisations

Organisation	Project
ADAS	Environmental management
Agrimetrics Ltd	Applications of ClearSky to agricultural monitoring
AgRIA	Research and innovation accelerator
Beattie Passive Ltd	Retrofit Plus project
BRE	Impact of PV cooling on zero carbon electricity production and sustainable infrastructure
Bristol Robotics Laboratory	Microbial fuel cells and bioenergy and self-sustainable systems
British Antarctic Survey	Particle instrumentation
British Geological Survey	Recycling of clays
Caterpillar	Advanced powertrain development for off-highway applications
DTA & PUNCH Flybird	CFD modelling of flywheel energy storage technology for light-duty applications
England's Economic Heartland	Urban transport
Eunomia Consulting Ltd	Environmental management
Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust	Environmental management
Gascoyne Cecil Estates	Urban transport
Givaudan	CFD modelling of particle dispersion in domestic environments
Hertfordshire Living Lab	Urban transport
Jaguar Land Rover	Cleaner technology
National Physical Laboratory	Fuel cell metrology and corrosion testing
National Trust	Environmental management
Natural England	Environmental management
NIAB-EMR	Environmental management
NIAB-Morley New Farming System	Environmental management
PUNCH Flybird	Impact of flywheel energy storage on reduction of CO2 emission from heavy-duty vehicles
Rothamstead Research	Environmental management, use of weather generator to generate daily weather as inputs to run weather-based crop growth and disease models to assess impacts of various climate change scenarios relative to the baseline weather
TruLife Optics	Particle implementation
TWI	Developing low carbon cooling technologies for off-grid applications
UK Hempcrete Ltd	Advanced building materials and sustainability (Jankovic)
UK Met Office	Prediction of climate driven extreme events

International collaboration

International partner	Project
Beihang University (China)	Power system simulation
Caterpillar (USA)	Advanced powertrain development for off-highway applications
Egypt University	Impacts of climate change on occurrence and distribution of the pathogenic seed-borne fungi of wheat and maize in Egypt
ETH Zurich	High efficiency Prechamber natural gas combustion engine
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)	Air quality and climate modelling
Finnish Meteorological Institute	Aerosol instrumentation
Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology (IITM)	Climate of the tropics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)	A hybrid solar power assisted biomass CHP system for flexible generation in Indian rural areas
Indian Institute of Technology	Hybrid system of solar assisted steam gasification of rice
INRA (France)	Design and development of advanced sustainable and biodegradable composites for lightweight applications
Institut de Technologia de la Construction de Catalunya (Spain)	Zero carbon designs
Institute for Composite Materials (Germany)	Natural fibre/biobased polymer synthesis, procession and characterisation and applications
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)	Regional climate predictions
Joint Research Centre (Italy)	Environmental management for climate
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education (India)	Development and characterisation of advanced, sustainable and biodegradable composites, using agricultural wastes/biomass
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)	Aerosol instrumentation
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Paraglacial slope adjustment and bioengineering controls on the stabilisation of moraine slopes in the Swiss Alps
Kasetsart University (Thailand)	Refrigerating solutions for aging society according to climate changes in UK and Thailand
Nanyang Technology University (Singapore)	Data driven machine learning in the design phase change material thermal storage
National Atmospheric research Laboratory (NARL)	Interactions between weather/climate
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF)	Forecasting and predictions of weather ad climate
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)	Regional climate predictions and earth observations
Northeastern University (China)	Materials and composite investigation
Polytechnic University of Valencia	High efficiency low emissions RCCI combustion
Queensland University of Technology (Australia)	Environmental management for climate
RMIT University (Australia)	Environmental management for climate
Saga University (Japan)	Machine learning prediction of the heat transfer performance of nanofluid flows in helical coils
Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute	Zero carbon designs
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy)	High resolution predictions of climate extremes over south Asia
Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (Italy)	Low carbon/decarbonisation for transport
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne	Design and development of advanced, sustainable and biodegradable composites for lightweight applications
Universities of Pisa	Crop research and climate
University Malaysia	Tackling global challenges
University of Adelaide (Australia)	Environmental management for climate
University of Alberta	RCCI combustion control
University of Bio Bio (Chile)	Biopolymeric microparticles for sustainable civil infrastructure
University of California Davis, NCAR	Climate predictions
University of Cyprus	Development of eco-friendly construction materials
University of Delaware	Fuel cells
University of Grenoble	Sustainable planning and transport
University of Hong Kong	Soil improvement of a sustainable built environment
University of Lagos	Renewable energy generation through biomass conversion: Gasification and pyrolysis technologies
University of Nottingham (Malaysia)	Co-processing of agro-waste and domestic solid waste
University of Uyo (Nigeria)	Development of collapsible moveable solar dryer equipped with smart systems for drying
University of Waikato	Crop research and climate
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Advanced fuels for RCCI combustion
Wageningen University	Crop research and climate
Waseda University (Japan)	Waseda University (Japan)
Western Sugar Ltd (United States)	Environmental management for climate