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Maria Anjelica Ancheta, a PhD student from the Asia Institute of Technology in Thailand, who joined our IGSD STS Global in 2024, recently published a blog reflecting about her experience and how it enriched her thinking. The blog is titled ', and is also featured on Anjelica's University's social media site

It is amazing to see how ECRs can grow both in their intellectual and cultural journeys when are given the right opportunities to engage!

Professor Elena Korosteleva was invited to give a talk on 'Why we should think 'Resilience' when we talk about Green Transitions?' to the CAPTURED project organised by ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ's Policy Lab. Elena focused on understanding the Anthropocene through the lens of a VUCA-world and complexity-thinking, and why we need to understand resilience as a way of living, relating, and managing complex life. Green transitions - whichever ways we think of them - will not happen if we 1) don't have a holistic approach; 2) don't change our thinking & behaviour; and 3) don't facilitate agential change, through nurturing resilience as political agency.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to attend the 2025 Chatham House 'Security and Defence' conference held on 6 March 2025. The conference brought together over 600 global policymakers, senior military and armed forces figures, business leaders and civil society experts. Keynotes included Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Zaluzhnyi, UK Ministers and NATO senior officials, high-level panel dialogues, and ‘under-the-Rule’ spotlights.

The 'From Baku to Belém' workshop, organised under the auspices of the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Climate Governance and Policy Nexus (NEXUS), the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Sustainability Spotlight, and the Climate Finance for Equitable Transition (CLiFT), took place as a platform for capacity building, policy advocacy, information dissemination, and networking. The event brought together academics, negotiators, policymakers, civil society groups, and representatives from bilateral and multilateral finance institutions.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to contribute a piece on resilience to the strategic volume of , published by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), 3 March 2025. The volume came together at the request of policy-makers, and covers key themes that the EU and global leadership will work with in 2025+, including geopolitics, resilience, security, democracy etc. It offers innovative and creative perspectives, to ensure that the challenges posited by complex geopolitics and the Anthropocene, are adequately considered, going forward. It is available for a free download.