With a portfolio of active research and a community of leading academics, we lead on a range of interdisciplinary projects tackling some of the biggest global challenges we face as a global society.
The Energy and Environment Institute leads on the Aura Centre for Doctoral Training, offering PhD scholarships in offshore wind energy and the environment.
Exploring humanity’s relationships with water in the ‘green-blue’ regions of the world, past, present and future.
Research and education into themes relating to the Olympics, their sustainability and their legacy
Our flooding experts are driving the national and international flood resilience agenda
An inclusive and collaborative community of practice building knowledge, action and resilience for UK coastal communities and seas
Addressing the destructive legacies of natural disasters like avalanches, flash floods and landslides
Humber estuary digital twin for more accurate flood prediction and flood risk management
Supporting community heritage to explore and shape Hull’s relationship with water
Bringing together on-campus and community surface water management measures in one monitoring and evaluation system
A collaboration between the UK and the Philippines for sustainable mining, addressing contamination and river system health.
Life after cutoff is a research project to understand the physiochemical evolution of oxbow lakes
Bringing together academics, policymakers, practitioners, and communities, including youth voices, to vision a Climate Resilient and Net Zero Hull
Living with Water in an Uncertain Future Climate
Empowering youth-led climate adaptation in Vietnam and sharing their stories on an international stage
Do community arts and heritage initiatives in Hull build urban liveability in precarious places?
A research partnership for delivering effective post-flood support
Creating new Global Flood Models to predict the evolution of future flood hazard and understand its underlying causes.
Unites world leading flood and flood resilience expertise from the University of Hull with specialist real-life experience from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service.
The University is working with Living with Water to research the impacts of the 2007 and 2013 floods, and current levels of awareness of flood alleviation measures being developed by LWW partners.
THYME Project Education Resources for Schools, Colleges and Community Groups
Video resources prepared for KS 3-5
Experts from the University of Hull collaborated on an intensive study monitoring high-energy currents along a stretch of the Monterey Canyon in California.
On the Bute Inlet in Canada, we’re part of a larger international effort to monitor turbidity currents in action.
The University is one of 24 partners in the HYDRALAB network, using experimental models to improve predictions of how our rivers, estuaries and coasts will be affected by environmental change.
This project explores the evolution of flood risk on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
The University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute carried out research as part of the IMMERSE project that focused on challenges and threats facing estuaries
A collaboration between the National Youth Theatre and University of Hull as part of the Risky Cities project included a devised performance at COP26
Developing the bioeconomy across Yorkshire and the Humber region and the Tees Valley
Investigating the journey of plastics along the Mekong and its ultimate fate in the world’s oceans
Exploring children’s experiences of flooding through the use of immersive 360 technologies
THYME Project research into energy from biowaste
This project aims to identify the location and size of hedgerow gaps within East Yorkshire, which will establish a baseline value of the potential space for plantation.
Collaborative research as part of the THYME Project testing membranes as a potential low carbon replacement for distillation in the production of biofuels
Grassroots activity in the East Yorkshire bioeconomy
A multi-disciplinary, international team working in collaboration with industry and local partners investigated one of the World's largest rivers, the Paraná-Paraguay in Argentina.
The STELAR team wished to build new insights into how morphodynamic processes interact with climate to modulate sediment transfer from source to sink.
Energy and Environment Institute at COP26
A multidisciplinary, holistic approach to the plastics problem.
The Hedgehunters are young citizen scientists assisting the EEI Mapping Hedgerow Gaps project
Understanding lived experiences of children and young people in the face of coastal change.
EEI Plastics Researcher Julie Hope urges you to make key plastic-free swaps to save our oceans
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