Real World Challenges Seminar Series

Real World Challenges Seminar Series

Cambridge Prisms

The Cambridge Prisms: Real World Challenges series will accelerate discovery and progress research by supporting the formation of new collaborative networks to address real-world challenges with a truly interdisciplinary ethos. Cambridge Prisms serve to facilitate conversation and debate of the latest developments and perspectives from the scientific, environmental, social science, medical, legal, economic, and ethics research communities.

Speakers
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Prof. Anna Dominiczak
Prof. Munir Pirmohamed
Dr. Matthew Prime
Prof. Dianne Nicol
Prof. Bass Hassan
Dr. Bina Joe
Prof. Nathalie K. Zgheib
Prof. Anna Schuh
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Dr Jessica Jones
Dr Wolfgang Kiessling
Dr Merve Özyurt
Professor Jens-Christian Svenning
Prof Nicholas Dulvy
Prof Julien Louys
Prof Carlos Peres
Carl J Reddin
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Cambridge Prisms
Cambridge Prisms

August 2025

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Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation
Sep 30 @ 8am
Keynote
Macquarie University

Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation

Dr Christopher Hunter Lean
Christopher Hunter Lean
Macquarie University
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 8:00 AM (UTC)
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October 2025

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The price and value of water: An economic review
Oct 15 @ 8am
Keynote
Australian National University

The price and value of water: An economic review

Professor Quentin Grafton FASSA
Quentin Grafton
Australian National University
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 8:00 AM (UTC)
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November 2025

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The historical role of system dynamics modelling in understanding and supporting integrated natural resource management
Nov 12 @ 2pm
Keynote
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

The historical role of system dynamics modelling in understanding and supporting integrated natural resource management

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Janez Susnik
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:00 PM (UTC)
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April 2026

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Published seminars

Water Quality Paradoxes in Rich and Poor Nations: Insights from Sri Lanka and Remote Australia
Aug 14
Keynote

Water Quality Paradoxes in Rich and Poor Nations: Insights from Sri Lanka and Remote Australia

Jay Rajapakse
Kalpana Balasooriya
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates
Aug 5
Keynote
Charles Darwin University
The University of Adelaide

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates

John Woinarski, Charles Darwin University
Jess Marsh, The University of Adelaide
Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
Jul 17
Keynote

Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork

Victoria Prowse, Environment Agency
Low cost, high throughput quantification of microplastics released from textile wash tests: Introducing the fibre fragmentation scale
Jul 2
Keynote
Heriot-Watt University

Low cost, high throughput quantification of microplastics released from textile wash tests: Introducing the fibre fragmentation scale

Lisa Macintyre, Heriot-Watt University
Were dinosaurs doomed to extinction? New insights from phylodynamic models
Jun 25
Keynote
ETH Zurich

Were dinosaurs doomed to extinction? New insights from phylodynamic models

Bethany Allen, ETH Zurich and GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
It’s time to assign nonforested, nonagricultural lands a global designation
May 22
Keynote
Arizona State University
Texas A&M University

It’s time to assign nonforested, nonagricultural lands a global designation

Osvaldo E Sala, Arizona State University
David D. Briske, Texas A&M University
Mitochondria as a target of micro- and nanoplastic toxicity
May 14
Keynote
Koç University

Mitochondria as a target of micro- and nanoplastic toxicity

Fulya Dal Yöntem, Koç University
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May 7
Keynote
University of Leeds

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Kate Simpson, University of Leeds
Rethinking extinction “crises”: The case of Asian songbird trade
May 1
Keynote
University of Leeds

Rethinking extinction “crises”: The case of Asian songbird trade

Sicily Fiennes, University of Leeds