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FRM2021 Conference presentations now available to watch online

FRM2021 Conference presentations are now available to watch online
Sniffer and Historic Environment Scotland announce exciting collaboration

Sniffer and Historic Environment Scotland have developed a series of joint initiatives that will further develop and deepen collaboration.
Scotland’s Flood Risk Management Conference 2021: programme & registration

Conference programme now online and registration open for Scotland’s Flood Risk Management Conference 202: FRM and green recovery
FRM Practitioner check-in event

Rod Bain, Project Manager

Rod trained initially in music, which led to ten years managing creative industries projects. A growing interest in sustainability led Rod to low-carbon transitions project work and PhD research in sustainability and management at University of St Andrews. Since then, he’s been lecturing on sustainability and social innovation. He’s passionate about sustainability and enjoys working with artists, business leaders, community activists, and policymakers on transitions projects.
Ruth Wolstenholme, Managing Director

Ruth is a passionate facilitator with a keen ear for a good idea. She has been involved in Sniffer from the start and enjoys working for a small company that brings people with different perspectives together to find creative approaches to ensuring a more sustainable and fair society .
Anna Beswick, Business Manager

Anna manages the Adaptation Scotland and TalX programmes. She nurtures relationships and networks so they can develop their own ideas and solutions. If it’s never been done before she will have a go and won’t take no for an answer.
Kit England, Business Manager

Kit manages the Climate Ready Clyde initiative. He knows everybody, which is really handy when you work on partnerships. He connects public sector, organisations and businesses to work together on strategic planning, focusing right now on Glasgow City Region.
Janet Forgan, Finance Manager

Janet is a qualified Chartered Accountant and member of the ICAEW, having gained her qualification with Deloitte in 2000. Her career experience extends from senior finance roles within a large scale multinational to a Board level role managing the finance functions of a global group of small to medium sized businesses. She enjoys using her financial and commercial acumen to help Sniffer achieve its goals.
Ellie Murtagh, Climate Resilience Coordinator

Ellie supports resource development for organisations to better adapt to climate change. She enjoys learning new things, meeting new people and getting stuck into diverse projects to help make Scotland a sustainable, thriving, climate resilient place.
Catherine Pearce, Capacity Building Manager

Catherine is with the Sustainable Scotland Network and previously led the Future Justice programme with the World Future Council where she focused on initiatives to secure the needs of future generations. Her work looked at establishing dedicated institutions and legal mechanisms to bring long-term needs and intergenerational justice principles into present day policy.
Eleanor Pratt, Climate Resilience Coordinator

Eleanor loves bringing organisations and people together to find solutions to environmental challenges. She finds learning and working in the spaces that sit in the overlaps between traditional policy areas invigorating. Her wider interests include outdoor learning, listening to oddly-shaped music and being in, on or near water.
Iryna Zamuruieva, Climate Resilience Coordinator

Iryna is a cultural geographer, artist and an experienced project manager. At Sniffer Iryna brings her creative and organising skills to flood risk management and knowledge exchange projects and is involved in Adaptation Scotland, Climate Ready Clyde and other programmes.

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Flood Risk Management Conference 2018

The 2018 conference was held at the Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow from 5-6 February. A full conference summary report and all the presentations from the conference are now available to download. Thank to all those who contributed and attended for making another successful year.
Climate Ready Clyde

Sniffer is helping to increase the Glasgow City Region's resilience to climate impacts through the Climate Ready Clyde initiative. By bringing together key organisations to work in partnership on climate change adaptation, we are ensuring Scotland's biggest population centre is prepared for the challenges of future climate.
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A sustainable society is a strong, healthy and just society living within environmental limits. It is a society that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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Sniffer is helping Scotland get ready for the impacts of climate change by raising awareness of climate risks and opportunities, and creating catalysts for collaborative action through the Adaptation Scotland Programme.
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FRM2021 Conference presentations now available to watch online

FRM2021 Conference presentations are now available to watch online Read more