Humanities and Social Sciences Cornwall, University of Exeter

19/03/2026

🌟 Cornwall students! Your creativity could win you the 2026 Tony Hibbert Prize! 🌟

Are you in Years 7–13 and interested in history? The Tony Hibbert Prize invites you to create an original response to this year’s theme:
🕊️ “Cornwall at war”

Explore how the history of modern conflict connects to the world we live in today through creative writing, journalism, art, filmmaking, or digital storytelling.

The competition celebrates the values that mattered most to Tony Hibbert — courage, resistance, tolerance, and a deep appreciation of history.

✨ Deadline for submissions: 24 April 2026

📍 Open to all pupils attending school in Cornwall in Key Stages 3–5. Winners will be celebrated at Trebah Garden this summer — don’t miss your chance to take part in this inspiring county wide challenge! 🌿

👉 Find out more and start your entry:
https://hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/tony-hibbert-prize/

26/02/2026

📍 Falmouth Rugby Club | 🗓 Friday 6 March | ⏰ 7–10pm
Join us for Afro-Kernow, a vibrant evening of film, art, conversation, and community celebrating African and diaspora voices in Cornwall.

This special event is led by students from the HaSS Cornwall UGY3 module Gender and Politics of Africa and sponsored by the Decolonising Knowledges Collective, a research cluster in HaSS Cornwall at the University of Exeter. It showcases student-led public engagement while creating space for dialogue between university and community.

Taking place at Falmouth Rugby Club and coinciding with Ghana’s Independence Day, the evening invites reflection on histories of liberation, identity, and belonging across Africa and its global diasporas.

The programme features a screening of Small Gods, a powerful film about the displacement of the Batwa people in Uganda, followed by a panel discussion exploring diaspora, African student experiences, and Black presence in Cornwall. The event will also include artwork, poetry, music, and space for informal conversation — fostering connection, reflection, and celebration.

Whether you come for the film, the discussion, or the community atmosphere, Afro-Kernow offers a unique opportunity to engage with culture, politics, and creativity in one shared evening.
✨ Everyone is welcome — come to watch, listen, share, and celebrate.

🎟️ Book your place here: https://Afro-Kernow.eventbrite.co.uk

26/02/2026

Join us on Tuesday, 03 March at 3pm (Old Chapel lecture theatre, Penryn campus) where Dr Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews) will deliver a lecture on 'Carto/Graphic Violence: Primetime Atrocity Amid the Sri Lankan Civil War' hosted by the Exeter South Asia Centre and HaSS Cornwall.

10/12/2025

The UK aims to channel £1bn a year into nature recovery, but new research from Exeter and Oxford warns this won’t work without stronger rules and independent oversight. Without clear standards and verification, nature credits risk greenwashing rather than real ecological gains.

The study calls for a central regulator, science-based metrics, and mandatory biodiversity reporting to ensure investments truly restore nature.

The effectiveness of ambitious efforts to attract over £1 billion annually into nature recovery by 2030 could be undermined without stronger governance and regulatory oversight, according to new analysis from the University of Exeter. Market-based

05/11/2025

We’re excited to launch the Tony Hibbert Prize! Honouring WWII veteran Tony Hibbert, the prize invites students in Years 7–13 to respond creatively to the theme “Cornwall at War.” Entries can include writing, art, film or digital storytelling. Three winners will each receive £100 in book tokens and be celebrated at Trebah Garden this summer.

New history prize launched for secondary school pupils in Cornwall.

The Tony Hibbert Prize, established in memory of the decorated Second World War veteran, will invite students in key stages 3-5, year groups 7-13, to creatively respond to a particular theme each year, through a range of different media.

The children will be able to write creatively or in a journalistic style, use art, make a film, or create a piece of digital storytelling that captures the qualities most important to Tony, namely courage, resistance, tolerance and an appreciation of history as a discipline.

The competition is now open, with a theme for this inaugural prize of ‘Cornwall at war’.

Three winners will each receive £100 of book tokens and will be hosted at a prize-giving at Trebah Garden in the summer.

Visit https://brnw.ch/21wXbMl or email the prize organisers at [email protected].

Full story at https://brnw.ch/21wXbMk

📷 Major Tony Hibbert being awarded the Great Seal of Kiel in 2010. Photo courtesy of the Hibbert family and Trebah Garden.

Humanities and Social Sciences Cornwall, University of Exeter
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Falmouth School
Penryn Town Council
Penryn College Cornwall
Redruth School
Falmouth Town Council, UK
Richard Lander School
Penair School
Truro and Penwith College
Cornwall College

24/10/2025

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09/10/2025

Floods, fuel protests, and local history: Timothy Cooper and David Tomory dive into the events that tested UK communities at the turn of the millennium.

How did ordinary people in 2000 make sense of oil, floods, and climate change? David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore the link between fuel protests and flood waters.

04/10/2025

Dr Karen Scott will be delivering the hybrid talk on 3 November entitled "The politics of re-imagining sustainable wellbeing in a post-normal context."
Watch this space to follow her research throughout this month!

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/esi/newsandevents/challengeofthemonth/

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04/10/2025

Penryn Campus Undergraduate Open Day 📣

Join us at our s Undergraduate Open Day on Saturday 11 October at our Penryn Campus to find out more about the degree courses we offer, chat to current students about life in Cornwall and take a tour of our beautiful campus. 💚

Book your place now: https://brnw.ch/21wWi3L

30/09/2025

ESI Associate Director for External Engagement Dr Tiago de Melo Cartaxo from Exeter Law School, attended the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves in Hangzhou, China.

More than 2000 stakeholders (scientists, policymakers, community leaders, entrepreneurs and conservationists) gathered to shape the future of ’s biosphere reserves across 136 countries. 26 new biospheres were added to the existing 759!

Discussions focused on the World Network of Reserves' contributions to the global and sustainable development agenda, aligning efforts with key international frameworks such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the International Decade of Science for Sustainable Development.

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25/09/2025