Quarterly Webinar Series
We hold quarterly webinars as part of the UKIEG Webinar series on Healthy Indoor Environments, in Partnership with Air Hub, and BreatHE In Plus networks,
as well as the Micro Networks Noise Network Plus and GREENIN Micro-network Plus.
UPCOMING WEBINAR
23 June 2026 | Justice and Housing
The theme of our next webinar is Housing and Justice
Dr Sally Witcher OBE will be speaking on ‘Indoor air quality inequality: removing barriers to inclusion’
Dr Anna Pagani will be speaking on ‘Leverage points to housing justice: Thinking in systems with English social housing stakeholders’
11 March 2026 | Health, Place and Retrofit – The wider impact beyond building performance
Many of the benefits of retrofit are social and health related, yet these outcomes are rarely captured or valued. Sara Edmonds, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub presents their report for broadening how success in retrofit is defined.
12 December 2025 | Aligning the health, environmental, and justice co-benefits of housing design and retrofit
Introducing the HESTIA Network, which aims to accelerate the creation of indoor home environments that meet Net Zero targets while promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing for all.
HESTIA Sandpit
The HESTIA two-day in-person ‘sandpit’ was held in York on the 21st and 22nd May 2026 bringing together researchers from different academic disciplines and people working in a range of organisations (e.g., councils, charities, community groups, housing associations, building/technology companies) to develop ideas for small research projects.
Date: 21–22 May 2026
Venue: Mercure Hotel Fairfield Manor, York
21–22 May 2026 | HESTIA Sandpit Event
We can fund 4 small-scale projects (e.g., to test the feasibility of an idea, scope the literature / survey views of residents, etc.) which must be completed within 6 months of the award. Two of which can cost up to £30,000 and two can cost up to £65,000 (at 100% full economic cost; we will fund 80% of this).
Launch Event
Our network Launch event was held on 15th January 2026 –
The HESTIA Network aims to accelerate the creation of indoor home environments that meet Net Zero targets while promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing for all.
Date: 15 January 2026
Venue: Cloth Hall Court, Leeds
15 January 2026 | HESTIA Launch Event
Scoping out some of the key elements of HESTIA’s planned activities, as well as interactive sessions to co-develop a new “health-equity-centred-engineering” approach to home design and retrofit, that integrates existing and emerging building technologies to maximise human and environmental health co-benefits, and minimise health inequalities