Promoting societal and
environmental resilience

through world-leading research.

The interdisciplinary Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull brings together the skills and capabilities of leading researchers to tackle global challenges related to climate change and population growth and their consequences for society and livelihoods. We work within four themes at the interface between sustainable energy and environmental resilience:
Co-evolution of Earth and life
'Energy Estuary' 2050
Global change, risk and resilience
Energy, resource recovery and waste
The Challenge
Our climate is changing and sea level is rising. The world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, forcing people to inhabit marginal areas. This will dramatically increase flood risk, create huge pressures on vital resources and present immense waste management challenges.

What we do

We aim to leverage partnerships and accelerate innovation pathways to ensure that our research provides the evidence base for policy makers and sets new research agendas.

Future-focused, our research will guide understanding of the ways in which we, as a global community, have to live differently in order to carve out a sustainable future in which vulnerabilities are reduced, societal resilience is enhanced and standards of living are maintained and grown across the globe.

Our work

CSET - Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies
We’re driving decarbonisation innovation through research into green buildings, sustainable heating & cooling and energy efficiency & management
RAMESES
We’re exploring the evolution of flood risk on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, home to 18 million people and slowly drowning as sea-levels rise.
Risky Cities
We're using innovative arts and humanities approaches to build climate awareness and help communities become more flood resilient.
Living With Water
We’re partners in Living with Water, providing research expertise to this community flood resilience initiative.
Hydralab+
We’re one of 24 partners awarded a major European Union research grant of almost €10 million to predict how our rivers, estuaries and coasts will be affected by environmental change.
Bute Inlet
On the Bute Inlet in Canada, we’re part of a larger international effort to monitor turbidity currents in action.
Plastics Collaboratory
We aim to understand the pathways and interactions of plastics in the environment and develop new pathways to an enhanced circularity in plastics use.
Renewable energy
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Our
people

With a community of excellent research colleagues, we lead on a range of interdisciplinary projects to tackle some of the biggest global challenges we face as a global society.

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Our
facilities

We work with a number of partners on a variety of unique and innovative research solutions and facilities, that have significantly advanced our understanding of environmental issues. See just some of the facilities that we have available, below. 

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Hull Stratified Coriolis Investigation Experiment

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Bayfield Hydrography Suite