{"id":18059,"date":"2021-09-21T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/?p=18059"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:05:04","slug":"joes-review-of-the-2021-european-environmental-law-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2021\/09\/21\/joes-review-of-the-2021-european-environmental-law-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe’s review of the 2021 European Environmental Law Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog written by EELF Committee Support Team Leader Joseph McMullen<\/a>, a PhD student and part-time lecturer at Bournemouth University. Joe also studied his Bachelors of Law \u2013 LLB<\/a> at BU.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The European Environmental Law Conference 2021<\/strong> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Building links between law, science, technology, economy, and policy are key to addressing and resolving environmental issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the 8- 10\u00a0September 2021, Bournemouth University hosted the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) conference,<\/a> which, due to the issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, was developed and managed virtually.<\/p>\n

The organisation of this event fell into the hands of Senior Lecturer Tilak Ginige<\/a> and his unrelenting enthusiasm was contagious. Tilak\u2019s passion for environmental law is undeniable, but his primary goal was to create new interdisciplinary links between law, science, technology, economy, and policy to ensure that environmental issues are addressed and resolved as effectively as possible. Bringing so many disciplines together under a common theme is rare and the typical lack of interdisciplinary collaboration has hindered progress in a lot of areas of environmental law. However, prior to EELF 2021, there haven\u2019t been many opportunities for such collaboration. With this in mind, we assembled a team of academics, post-graduates, and students from a range of specialties to develop the conference.<\/p>\n

Organising this event had its challenges, but every member of the team supported each other and by the time September arrived, we\u2019d become a well-oiled machine that looked towards the start of the conference with excitement and confidence. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We hosted over 150 attendees, over 90 contributors, and 23 keynote speakers<\/a> on a virtual platform and despite the odd technical glitch the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Creating a forum for all of us to come together and listen to discussions and talks delivered by the experts was awe inspiring and motivational. Additionally, the conference met our aim of trying to bring experts from varying fields together; in one of the parallel sessions I hosted, a group of academics mistakenly joined a discussion which they hadn\u2019t originally intended to join. However, they were intrigued by the content of a talk on \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 circular economy and, following conversation with the presenters, ultimately teamed up to form a new multidisciplinary research project. What started out as a predominantly economic talk has led to the formation of a project which will investigate the role of the public in the circular economy within the ambit of plastic legislation and policy. The new research group thanked us for bringing them together, and we\u2019ve since heard that other groups are forming too!<\/p>\n

Speaking after the conference, Tilak said the team \u2018was the heart and soul of the project\u2019 and created an event filled with passion, commitment, professionalism, and respect.<\/p>\n

My personal highlight is that our team are now firm friends who have been by each other\u2019s sides for over a year, and we\u2019ve continued in exactly the same way since the conference ended.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had an incredible time with some truly amazing people, and I can\u2019t thank them enough for the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog written by EELF Committee Support Team Leader Joseph McMullen, a PhD student and part-time lecturer at Bournemouth University. Joe also studied his Bachelors of Law \u2013 LLB at BU. The European Environmental Law Conference 2021 Building links between law, science, technology, economy, and policy are key to addressing and resolving… Read more » about Joe’s review of the 2021 European Environmental Law Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":18060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,1663,12,1640,1638],"tags":[170,1183,1240,2750,2749,2751,559,2752],"class_list":["post-18059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-postgraduate","category-student-blogs","category-sustainability","category-undergraduate","tag-collaboration","tag-conference","tag-environment-matters","tag-environmental-law","tag-european-environmental-law-conference","tag-law-and-policy","tag-llb-hons-law","tag-speakers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18059"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18127,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059\/revisions\/18127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}