ARISE is a ground-breaking research project, funded by UKRI, which seeks to develop resilience within the UK’s coastal communities and seas. Over the course of five years, the project team will work with local stakeholders and communities to design and test different ‘interventions’, or ways of tackling difficult and long-standing problems. At the end of the project, we will have a powerful and practical toolkit to help communities and decision makers develop place-based resilience-building interventions across the UK coastline.The project team is led by Professor Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Department of Government, University of Essex, and comprises investigators from across Eastern Arc Universities and beyond (Aberystwyth, Birkbeck, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Manchester, and Suffolk) and other regional partner organisations including the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and Estuary Festival.If you would like to hear more about the ARISE project or our team expertise and/or explore opportunities for collaboration, please do not hesitate to contact the ARISE project lead, Professor Reinhardt (gina.reinhardt@essex.ac.uk).