Articles tagged with 'sustainable-consumption-institute' | University of Manchester

Based on a report published in March 2021 in collaboration with Manchester-based NGO Ethical Consumer, the study explores the relationship between companies and the political ‘movements’ for deregulation they fund. It shows that techniques used in to...

Dr Sherilyn MacGregor has been working with the Women’s Budget Group (WBG) and the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) over the past year on a feminist Green New Deal, which is now a two-year funded project. Over 2 years, the project will seek to bui...

Dr Maria Sharmina and colleagues at Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde have published new research about the UK's smart and local energy business sector. The research is titled 'Characterising a local energy business sector in the United Kingd...

In collaboration with Professor Kevin Ward of the Manchester Urban Institute, an application was successfully submitted to the University of Manchester/Melbourne fund. As a result, there are a series of six webinars between now and September under th...

Based on an initial report published in May 2020, which gathered evidence on immediate impacts on everyday life routines right after the pandemic hit, this report takes into account the next phase of the evolving impact of Covid-19. Additional eviden...

A new £1.5M collaborative venture led by The University of Manchester has been awarded to enable simpler methods of recycling and eliminate plastic leakage into the environment.The ‘One bin to rule them all’ project aims to improve compliance with re...

The grant was awarded for the project ‘Young people at a crossroads: Negotiations of environmental knowledges, practices and subjectivities in immigrant homes at a time of climate crisis’ Catherine Walker will be returning to SCI and the Politics ...

Alan Warde is co-author of the newly published book: Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans, The Social Significance of Dining out: a study of continuity and change, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020). Dining out used to be...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has been awarded a grant by the Economic and Social Research Council to investigate how digital platforms are rapidly reconfiguring urban services and disrupting the way mobility systems are currently organ...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) secured one of 10 joint University of Manchester-University of Melbourne, Global Doctoral Research Network (GOLDEN) PhD Projects. The research contributes to the SCI’s developing programme on urban platf...

Mundane Methods, written by Helen Holmes and Sarah Marie Hall, is an innovative and original collection which will make a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Bringing together a range of interdiscipl...

As a contribution to the public debate on what the world will look like when we get through the COVID-19 pandemic, SCI members and associated researchers decided to collectively develop a report which aims to provide much-needed evidence for a possib...

Sherilyn MacGregor, Catherine Walker & Tally Katz-Gerro received the grant from the Leverhulme Trust. The funding is for 39 months and will fund a full-time post for Catherine as well as a PhD student. Abstract This project will investigate how...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has launched the Winter 2019 edition of its newsletter, which is now available to download here....

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has launched the Autumn 2019 edition of its newsletter, which is now available to download here. The latest edition of the circular features an discussion with Manisha Anantharaman about climate, justice...

Frank Geels, Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability at the SCI and Alliance MBS, has been named as one of The University of Manchester’s researchers of the year for his outstanding performance and significant contribution. He received t...

The University of Manchester is part of a new network that will boost the contribution of higher education institutions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...

The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has appointed six senior academic Fellows from universities across the UK to focus on five key areas: Rural Land Use, Food, Air Quality, Marine, and Resources and Waste. Prof Boons is he...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has moved from its two buildings in Waterloo Place to the Alliance Manchester Business School. As of mid-March 2019, staff and students have been busy settling into newly refurbished offices on the ninth...

One of the largest meat processors in the UK, supplying supermarkets across the country with beef, pork, and lamb, has launched a plant-based meat alternative. ABP is the first UK meat producer to do so and its decision marks a significant shift for ...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has signed up to the Greater Manchester Plastics Free Pledge (PlasticFreeGM). With the establishment of PlasticFreeGM, Greater Manchester is the first city-region to ask businesses, organisations and ind...

School students across the UK (and the world) went on strike on 15 February 2019 to protest the lack of effective action on climate change. School strikes may be a novel tactic, but mass environmental activism isn’t. Marc Hudson asks, will things ...

Professor Frank Boons takes up the role. Congratulations to Professor Frank Boons who has been appointed Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). Frank is Professor of Innovation and Sustainability at Alliance Manchester Busines...

With the school children’s #ClimateStrike movement reaching the UK, Catherine Walker explores how children are framed in climate change discourse and asks how can children move us beyond our current political impasse? Fifteen-year-old climate acti...

SCI’s Mike Hodson and Andy McMeekin have recently been awarded an AMBS PhD Studentship that addresses the question: how are digital platform innovations reconfiguring urban mobility systems? The PhD will undertake research at the interface of inno...

A number of academics from MICRA presented at the Gerontological Association of America Annual Meeting, held in Boston November 14-18. Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson organised a Symposium on 'Age-Friendly Communities: New Directions for Research...

Are you a serial loser of keys? Do you always leave your umbrella on the train? Perhaps you once lost something really important to you and have never forgotten about it? Whatever your lost property story - we want to hear it! Researcher Dr Hel...

France recently passed an amendment to its Agriculture Bill, prohibiting any product that is largely based on non-animal ingredients from being labelled like a traditional animal product. Malte Rödl explores the legislation in relation to our move...

Greater Manchester was initially aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050, but Mayor Andy Burnham has suggested this should be brought forward by at least a decade. Nonetheless, the SCI researchers suggest that the ‘carbon neutral’ goal risks obscuring ot...

It is not yet clear whether the GMCA is accepting or denying political responsibility for the environmental problem. Julia Kasmire considers some early indicators of the combined authority’s position. Andy Burnham’s Green Summit, which was held on...