For the spooky season edition of the Hub Digest, we have a few treats for you; the return of our Hub User Spotlights, new pieces authored by Hub users, a tool that allows you to examine health markers for your congressional district, and our round up of other Hub activity over the month. Enjoy!
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Hub User Spotlight
As we mark one year of this user spotlight, we are excited to feature our very own Nova Invited Faculty member Kate Rudd. Kate is a transdisciplinary researcher and PhD candidate based at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Read on to learn more about her and what she’s been up to lately.
What are your interests? I’m an inquisitive person; I love to travel and learn. I’m fascinated by people, the world around me and how it works. I care deeply about looking after the planet and its more-than-human inhabitants, and also about human rights and protecting the most vulnerable among us. In my free time, I love to be active and spend time outdoors, ideally rock climbing, running, hiking, or snowboarding.
What are you working on that most excites you? I’m currently writing an article examining the influence of philanthropic foundations operating in the biodiversity finance and governance space. The aim is to map this nebulous landscape to identify the major actors, the different roles they’re playing, reveal any tensions between these roles and their mission to protect or restore biodiversity, and to critically evaluate the extent their aggregate impact misaligns with their mission.
What do you welcome Hub users to connect with you about? I welcome connections and conversations on anything related to systems transformation, political ecology, social innovation or financial geography. Within those, I’m especially interested in how to create the conditions for organizations and individuals to move beyond their current ways of thinking and acting to be able to address the pace and scale of the polycrisis, and how to redirect financial flows to serve life on Earth.
Mark Your Calendar for our Final Coffee and Conversations of the Year
Get ready to wrap up the year with our final Coffee and Conversations, a monthly Zoom gathering for Hub users. Join us on Friday, November 21 from 11:30 am – 12:15 pm ET for a casual, yet insightful, discussion on thanksgiving and gratitude, perfectly timed for the holiday season. We can’t wait for you to connect with other Hub users and forge new connections that will thrive into the new year. All you need is to be a Hub user and register ahead of time so we know you’re coming! See you there!
In Discussions
- 🗺️What’s your take on climate havens? Chime in and share your perspective.
- 📃Invited Faculty Zinzi Bailey and coauthors recently published an essay in the American Journal of Public Health: “Why Building Power is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity.”
- 🍩Researchers have evolved Kate Raworth’s doughnut-shaped framework of social and planetary boundaries to include revised indicators and monitor how we are doing in real time.
- 📍Explore the health snapshot of your congressional district with the Congressional District Health Dashboard.
…and many more in the Discussions page!
In Groups
- Cultivating Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being: A piece on belonging inspired by professor john a. powell and an article on liminal spaces.
- Nova4Nutrition: A new study warns that older Americans are more likely to be addicted to ultra-processed foods than to alcohol or tobacco with signs of addiction more prevalent in women than men.
- Nova Reads: Jump in and share your spooky reads along with a recent mention of Fairy Tale by Stephen King.
- Earthrise Community: Takeaways from the latest Earthrise Community meeting, “Polarities and Progress.”
- Mentoring Research Network (MRN): Welcoming the new MRN members— representatives of 10 countries from across Africa and Asia tackling sustainability challenges across domains like planetary health, environmental sustainability, climate change, and Indigenous knowledge systems.
…check out all the Groups (or create your own)!
In Events
- November 19: Microbes and Social Equity Series
- November 21:The final Coffee and Conversations for 2025
- See more events and submit your own on our Community Calendar!
Hub Features & User Tips
- Now available! The Nova Integration Hub app for iOS and Android users.
- Tip for engagement: Tap into the great minds here on the Hub! Post your requests for information, research help, articles, etc., in a relevant group or discussion topic, or directly to your profile as a status update.
- Invite friends to join the Hub! Click on your profile photo, navigate down to “Email Invites,” and click “Send Invites.” Customize a message or just send the link – it’s easy!
- Just getting started on the Hub? Check out the Hub User Guide to watch a video or get step-by-step instructions.
Thank you again for being part of our community. We’d love to hear from you! Let us know how you like using the Hub, share your ideas and suggestions, or just say hello! Message Airynn Strout or Tolu Adewole on the Hub or email us at airynn@novainstituteforhealth.org or tolu@novainstituteforhealth.org.
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