It was so nice to meet our newest cohort of Grantham Centre Grantham Centre Scholars today! We hope you enjoyed your first induction day. (Despite best efforts there are people with their eyes closed on the photo - sorry!) @BeckSheffield Anthony J Ryan OBE Rachael Rothman

It was great to get together for our away day, where we shared our expertise & values!It was clear we're all on the same mission to reduce the environmental impact of cement & concrete & find real-world solutions. Thanks to our facilitator @sandrinesoubes & hosts Whirlowbrook Hall

Aaand that's a wrap on our Methods@Sheffield sessions! In the past 4 days we learned so much about our Grantham Centre Scholars methods of research, and it's all been fascinating. Well done everyone! 👏👏👏 @BeckSheffield Anthony J Ryan OBE Rachael Rothman

🚨 New industry-linked #PhD position (fully funded) available w/ myself & John Provis CBESheffield! Lots of exciting surface chemistry to understand & control reaction of slag cements! 🌍significantly enhanced stipend + a secondment at DBG! findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

⭐️CBE research highlight ⭐️ Cement is the ‘glue’ in concrete, and its production generates 8% of global CO2 emissions - research from Brant Walkley showcases more sustainable ‘alkali-activated’ cements sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #research #chemeng #cberesearchhighlight

📢It's Festival of Debate 2025 time! 💚Starting May 2nd, we're organising online events on cities, farming, water and greenspaces. 📅In this thread we'll give details, or you can find out more and get tix in the link⬇️ grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/webinars/

Check out the Festival of Debate 2025 event that myself and a few fellow Grantham Centre scholars have organised on #GreenInfrastrcture, with speakers from both academia and industry. Sign up for event here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-infras…

We build the equivalent of Paris each week,with construction accounting for almost 40% of emissions!PhD students Ella Cliff, Kyle O'Donoghue & Madeline Rihner have organised this free event with experts from industry & academia to explore how we change this:eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-infras…

🚧 "Construction creates 40% of global carbon emissions - to go #NetZero means we need a 50% cut by 2030. Can we do it?" Festival of Debate with Brant Walkley XCO2 Urban Flows and session chaired by Rachael Rothman CBESheffield Grantham Centre #GreenInfrastructure

Our research team SMASH (Sustainable Materials @ Sheffield) in CBESheffield now has a dedicated Twitter page - give us a follow to keep up with what we've been doing! Run by our very own Ava M Sjoberg, we're aiming to use it to feature research and other activities that our group gets up to 🥳🌍🌲

A big shout out to Charley Nevin, Ava M Sjoberg & Brant Walkley from Cements@Sheffield & SMASH (Sustainable Materials @ Sheffield), who held the excellent Encapsulants Industry Research Day. This included talks from Sellafield Ltd, United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory & students whose research focuses on waste encapsulants. Well done to all!

SMASH delegates have arrived in Bangkok for ICCC 2023. We had such a lovely evening at the pre-Congress dinner and exploring the local culture. Looking forward to the proceedings starting today! #ICCC23

📢 #COP28 officially started today - and despite the fact that a big oil producer is presiding over the conference, the global community is still hopeful that this year's conference will deliver meaningful decisions. 🌍 We have a number of delegates attending so watch this space!

The first group of The University of Sheffield COP28 delegates is reporting from the conference. We are proud of our Grantham Scholars who are a part of the group and we are happy to be supporting them in attending this potentially pivotal event. 🌍 Ella Cliff thom @kristinbash

Some 3.5 billion people – nearly half of humanity – live in areas highly vulnerable to the #ClimateCrisis. Leaders at #COP28 must take concrete steps to accelerate climate adaptation and address loss and damage through major new investments.

Congratulations to everyone for reaching the end of Day 3 at #COP28. Averaging 25,000 steps daily, coupled with smart shoes, has led to blisters, but it's all worth it to be part of this crucial event and to ensure nations uphold their commitments. #sheffield #engineering

🌍 COP28 Snapshot – Day 3 - Fast Tracking the Energy Transition 🎉 Global Decarbonization Accelerator announced, prioritizing decarbonization across energy producing and heavy-emitting sectors 🤝 50 Oil & Gas companies committed to eliminating methane by 2030 and fully

Q&A: What is the ‘global stocktake’ and could it accelerate climate action? | Aruna Chandrasekhar Josh Gabbatiss w/ comment from Avantika Goswami E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism Sandeep Chamling Rai @JenIrisAllan Indrajit Bose Lavanya Rajamani #CBarchive #COP28 Read here ➡️ bit.ly/46Fg8w7

🌍 123 countries have now endorsed ✍️ the COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate Health. #COP28 #UniteActDeliver #ClimateAction

The first group of The University of Sheffield COP28 delegates is on their way home after an eventful week at the conference. You can read a summary of what was negotiated on the first few days here: cop28.com Photo creds: Omid Ebrahimbaysalami, @kristinbash & Veysel Yildiz