Driving eco-innovation in Africa. Capacity building for a safe circular water economy.
Dr Joanne Larty is the work package lead for Entrepreneurship and Innovation [WP1] on the RECIRCULATE project. She is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Lancaster University Management School. In her previous career, she worked as an IT consultant and then moved into marketing and became a Marketing Manager […]
Dr Mike Ajieh describes how the ACTUATE power-from-waste plant at University of Benin is translating RECIRCULATE research into real benefits for energy supply, the environment and student experience. The world is faced with huge challenge of municipal solid waste management. This is due mainly to the sheer volume of waste generated by the continuous increase […]
In this blog, developed from her highly commended entry to the FLOW “Write a Blog” competition”, Kathleen Burke describes her research into sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems. One benefit of doing research is that it encourages you to think about the ‘bigger picture’ that frames the topic you are working on. My PhD at the Stockholm School […]
In this blog, developed from his highly commended entry to the FLOW “Write a Blog” competition”, Chibuike Utaka finds parallels between a childhood experience and the challenge of science communication with business. Looking back to my childhood I remember that in my village school, break time usually announced wild apple hunting in the nearby bush. […]
In this blog, developed from her highly commended entry to the FLOW “Write a Blog” competition”, Dr Noimot Abisola Balogun reflects on one positive lesson from a very hard year. For Africa, effective communications among the actors in the research value chain had long been a headache for health strategists like me – until 2019. […]
Monday 22nd March 2021 is UN World Water Day and this year’s theme is “Valuing Water“, so we decided to ask some of the RECIRCULATE family in Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, United Kingdom and Zambia to tell us how important water is to their home and family life, livelihood, cultural practices, wellbeing or local […]
Prof. Alastair Martin shares his personal journey as a chemical engineer into RECIRCULATE, and how the idea of “safe digestate” is coming to life through the project. Roughly half of the world population- those of us who are lucky enough to live with water sufficiency- probably don’t fully appreciated how completely reliant we all are […]
In her highly commended entry to the FLOW “Write a Blog” competition, Dr Otlhapile Dinakenyane highlights the challenge of the ‘first step’ in communication. The truth is that every university is as relevant as the solutions it brings to the problems of the community it exists in. As it stands, universities exist in isolation from […]
Lancaster’s “Water for Sanitation and Health” team describe how they balance the opportunities and risks of research with the needs of individuals and communities. The flagship objective of the RECIRCULATE project is to develop the capacity of African Researchers to work with, in, and for their communities. Communities are an integral part our activities. The […]
Their Language, our language. In her winning entry to The FLOW “Write a blog” competition, Ugochi Oluigbo writes about the difficulty of getting the academia, policy makers, industry and communities in one room to just talk. She believes the language of communication is the problem as scientific findings are usually hard for the non scientific […]