It is with a heavy heart and deep regret that we announced that our dear friend and colleague Srabani Maitra has died. Srabani, who was Professor in Sociology of Adult and Vocational Education within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, contracted meningitis, and despite all efforts over a two-week period could not recover.

Core CR&DALL member Anna Wilson, University of Glasgow, has recently launched a new project funded by the UK's EPSRC through the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre. CC(U)S Futures is a collaboration between staff at the University of Glasgow, University of Stirling and University of Strathclyde. It is developing Place-Based Participatory Speculative Fiction as a tool for exploring workforce understandings of and imaginary constructions about the possible impacts on local landscapes and lives resulting from large-scale implementation of carbon capture, use and storage (CC(U)S) technologies.