{"id":14586,"date":"2022-10-20T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:18:38","slug":"the-2022-festival-of-social-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/10\/20\/the-2022-festival-of-social-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing local knowledge about plastic\u00a0waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; time<\/strong><br \/>\n5 November 2022 | 10.00-15.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event format<\/strong><br \/>\nAttend event in\u202fperson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audience<\/strong><br \/>\nAll<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event type<\/strong><br \/>\nParticipatory interactive event<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event topic<\/strong><br \/>\nBusiness, finance &amp; economics, Environment, Health &amp; wellbeing, My local area<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic discipline<\/strong><br \/>\nEconomics management and business studies, Chemical engineering; Polymer engingeering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong><br \/>\nGreat North Museum: Hancock<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s on offer?<\/strong><br \/>\nThis\u00a0event is part of a collaboration between Chemical Engineering, Business Operations Management, and Marketing to study the problem of plastic waste as a barrier to achieving Net Zero. Multiple exhibitors will\u00a0showcase how they are doing their bit to address plastic waste, and interactive areas will include displays asking people to consider which types of products create more or minimise the problem of plastic waste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s leading the event?<\/strong><br \/>\nDr Josephine Go Jefferies, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Newcastle University<\/p>\n<p>Dr Katarina Novakovic, Reader in Polymer Engineering, Newcastle University<\/p>\n<p>Prof Christian Hicks, Professor in Operations Management, Newcastle University<\/p>\n<p>Ms Zara Latif, President of the NUSU Chemical Engineering Society, Newcastle University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open to<\/strong><br \/>\nEveryone is eligible to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of particular interest to<\/strong><br \/>\nPeople and organisations interested in sustainability and low carbon living for people and planet health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event Booking details<\/strong><br \/>\nNo advance booking from the public required &#8211; just turn up on the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/festivalofsocialscience.com\/events\/assessing-local-knowledge-about-plastic-waste\/\">Further information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event details Date &amp; time 5 November 2022 | 10.00-15.00 Event format Attend event in\u202fperson Audience All Event type Participatory interactive event Event topic Business,&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/10\/20\/the-2022-festival-of-social-science\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-14586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-research-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14592,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions\/14592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}