Speed talk summary 29 November

1. Jessica Kavonic and Meggan Spires introduced long-term centre partner ICLEI and their Urban National Assets for Africa programme. For several years they have worked closely with Ellika H Török ellika@stockholmresilience.su.se, Julie Goodness julie.goodness@su.se and others. More on the programme here: https://cbc.iclei.org/project/una-africa/ 2. Steven Lade steven.lade@su.se introduced a new paper about to be submitted on how increased pathway diversity can lead to increased resilience. Input and feedback on the paper is much appreciated, so get in contact with Steven! 3. Alice Dauriach Alice.Dauriach@kva.se reported back from a course at the Copenhagen Business School on tools to combat fiscal fraud. She learned a lot on money laundering. Just saying. 4. Ana Paula Aguiar anapaula.aguiar@su.se will conduct a course on land use modelling 2-6 December. It will be one of her final things to do before returning back to Brazil in January 5. Do you want to know what it takes to ruin the launch of a high-level science report? Ask Victor Galaz Rodriguez victor.galaz@su.se He can show you in 5 steps. Updates from management: - SRC brought in 1/3 of all Formas grants to SU. Well done to all who were successful. For those who failed, don’t give up - Well done to Eva, Garry and Magnus for their work on compiling everything required in connection with SU’s evaluation of our PhD programme - As part of our partnership with Princeton, two post-docs Andrew and Elizabeth will hold a BBL on Wednesday on urban resilience and fisheries and food systems. Sorry for the vague introduction, more information should follow. We finished up with a love bomb to Vanessa Masterson vanessa.masterson@su.se. She is soooooooooo worth it: https://stockholmuniversity.box.com/s/i0nv2g6civl0366chnkq4u9icwhpvlnf