Research centre for culture and the natural world is launched

Published on 03/10/2012 02:08

THE first research centre in 
Scotland combining the study of culture and the natural world was launched yesterday.

The University of Glasgow unveiled the Solway Centre for Environment and Culture where natural scientists and cultural specialists will collaborate on interdisciplinary courses, including projects studying the impact of wildfires across the UK last year.

It is based at the university’s campus in Dumfries and Galloway, a landscape which inspired Robert Burns’s world-famous poetry and the place where 
19th century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle coined the word “environment”.