BU Research Blog

Traditional conferences tend to have a high carbon footprint. In October 2023, the Multimodal Immersive NEuro-sensing (MINE) Research Cluster and Bournemouth EEG Lab hosted Bournemouth Garden of CuttingGardens2023 conference, a globally distributed and hybrid conference on cutting-edge EEG/MEG methods with 800+ attendees. After the huge success of the event, the global team evaluated the experience and wrote an article “Doing conferences different: a decentralised multi-hub approach for ecological and social sustainability”. This article has been accepted for publication on PLoS Sustainability and Transformation. Two BU staff, Xun He (Head of MINE Cluster and EEG Lab) and Ruijie Wang, co-authored this publication. We hope our work can reshape the international conferencing scenes.