11-12 September 2025
University of Glasgow
Co-creating resilient coastal futures: How can we work well together across interfaces* to co-create resilient coastal futures?
*Interfaces refer to working with communities of people across the dynamic land-sea interface to co-create practices to help society shift to live more resiliently with our changing coastal seas.
Join Us in Glasgow for the COAST-R Year 2 Events!
Mark your calendars and join us for an engaging event focussed on building resilience for coastal communities and seas. This gathering will bring together academics, researchers, partners, and diverse stakeholders to collaborate, share insights, and explore synergies to contribute to the resilience of our coastal communities and seas.
What to Expect
Through structured dialogues, interactive problem-solving labs, and creative methods, we will work together during the Coast-R Year 2 events to identify patterns, challenges, and best practices that can usefully inform how society can shift toward more resilient and adaptive relationships with our changing coastal seas. The Coast-R Network Year 2 event will take place in the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow – a flagship new space for working cross disciplines, sectors and boundaries to inspire, co-create and develop strategies at the cutting edge of research, policy and practice.
To ensure our Coast-R Network event caters to participants needs, we would really like to showcase your best practice examples and current challenges on topics that relate to any aspect of resilient coasts and seas. We invite participants from all backgrounds to share their own examples of successful projects as well as current ‘conundrums’ (topics or projects) where you are working across sectoral or academic interfaces. Please get in touch with us coastaladaptation@glasgow.ac.uk if you have any successful or current projects you’d like us to include as part of our dialogues or problem-solving labs!
As part of this event, we will collaboratively develop data for a Delphi study, distilling key lessons on working at interfaces—environmentally, academically, socially, and politically. All participants will be invited to engage in this meaningful and reflective process, contributing their insights and experiences to shape an evolving knowledge base on co-creating resilient coastal futures.
This Delphi-informed approach will allow us to synthesise practical, research-backed insights, ensuring that the knowledge generated during the event is cumulative, iterative, and actionable. Through this process, we aim to co-develop guiding principles for transdisciplinary, participatory coastal resilience work—principles that emerge directly from the diverse experiences of practitioners, researchers, and communities engaging at these critical interfaces.
By participating, you will not only contribute to a growing body of knowledge but also become part of an ongoing collaborative network working to bridge disciplines, perspectives, and practices to transform coastal resilience thinking into tangible action.
Full details of the event including a schedule will be available in May 2025, with bookings opening by early June. There will be no cost to attend this event. If you need financial support to attend this event, please get in touch with COASTR@hull.ac.uk
Draft agenda
Day 1 (11th September): Networking Lunch & Knowledge Café Workshops
We will begin the event by exploring diverse case studies from arts, science, humanities, and community-led projects that address coastal resilience. This session offers an opportunity to share successes, assess challenges, and reflect on effective strategies in real-world resilience efforts. Gain conceptual and practical insights to inspire your own work. The day will conclude with an early evening drinks reception, providing a relaxed setting to continue the conversations started earlier.
Day 2 (12th September): Plenary Panel & Problem-Solving Lab
We will open the second day with a plenary panel featuring leaders from research, government, and community initiatives, who will share their perspectives on coastal resilience. Following this, participants will engage in interactive co-creation sessions addressing real-world coastal resilience challenges. These sessions offer the opportunity to collaborate on actionable solutions, generate fresh ideas, and set directions for future research and practice
We will wrap up with meaningful connections and discussions over a networking lunch.
Why Attend?
- Inclusive Dialogue: Engage in meaningful conversations with participants from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Networking Opportunities: Build stronger connections with peers and collaborators.
- Innovative Ideas: Gain fresh insights to enhance your research and projects.
To foster inclusive participation, bursaries will be available to cover costs for those who might otherwise be unable to attend.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and contribute to the resilience of our coastal communities and seas. Mark your calendar and join us to co-create a hopeful, resilient future for coastal communities and seas.
Stay tuned for registration details!
