Sport scholar to play against USA national cricket team
4 April

Sports Scholar Emily Windsor has been selected to play for an Invitational XI cricket team against the USA national team this month.

The team will play six T20 games ahead of the USA team’s World Cup qualifier later in the month. Emily’s first game is on Friday 12 April, with all the matches taking place at Broward County Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which is one of the only grass cricket wickets across the whole of the USA.

Emily, a third-year Sports and Exercise Science student, is a batting all-rounder who usually bats in the top four and then bowls seam.

She said: “This is a great pre-season run out for me, especially in warm weather. To play against a national team in another country, presents a fantastic opportunity and one I am really excited by.  If I perform well, it sets me up nicely moving forward in my game, coming back into the county season with Hampshire and then hopefully getting another super league contract this summer.”

Emily’s first game in the UK is on Sunday 5 May at The Ageas Bowl for Hampshire vs Lancashire.

Research theme director to chair UN meeting on biodiversity
3 April

Professor Steve Fletcher, the new Director for the Environment and Sustainability Research Theme, chaired an event at the UN headquarters this week, focused on building the awareness of connectivity issues between national waters and areas beyond national jurisdiction.

Partners at the event are Government of Ecuador, UN Environment Regional Seas Organisation for the South East Pacific, Duke University, and the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

The event is part of an Intergovernmental Conference to negotiate a new legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction – if passed, this will create a step change in the management of the ocean for decades.

For the rest of the week, Professor Fletcher will be working with UN colleagues to provide advice and technical information into the intergovernmental conference.

More news in brief can be found here.