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

SCI Lecturer Jeremy Brice was interviewed for the podcast FEED about his new report: Investment, Power and Protein in sub-Saharan Africa.The place of protein in sub-Saharan Africa’s food system is changing rapidly, raising complex international devel...

SCI Researcher Catherine Walker published a new blog post on the SCI Blog entitled ‘Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why we need inclusive climate change education’. The blog provides an introduction and accompanying informat...

The purpose of the event held at the Whitworth Art Gallery on 8th November was to have a community-facing, friendly and generative discussion about how to make the Curry Mile a place that serves people and the environment better.The ideas shaping the...

The paper is part of a forthcoming special section of Area on working with the spoken word in human geography and can be accessed online via open access.Jeremy takes a closer look at ‘expert’ or ‘elite’ interviews, which are often taken to be occasio...

Ensuring adequate access to clean water remains a major challenge throughout the world, particularly in off-grid and low-income neighbourhoods in the Global South. Digital water infrastructure such as water ATMs (automated standpipes) has been a comm...

Maria brings experience of working with policy makers, particularly across Government Departments. Her research on low-carbon energy and circular economy involves interdisciplinary approaches to complex policy problems, and aims to provide a conduit ...

The report argues that in order to understand the changing place of protein in sub-Saharan African diets and food systems, it is important to investigate what motivates different financial actors to invest in new food products, markets and value chai...

The team of the Methods for Change research project is holding two sessions at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences open to anyone with an interest in creative, participatory, spatial, and mixed methods in social science research.The events are open ...

We are delighted to announce that we are welcoming bestselling author and renegade economist Professor Kate Raworth for the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture 2022 on 6th December from 3pm!This event is held in collaboration with the Su...

Drawing on her experiences at the conference as well as her own research Chantal encourages an approach that uses water resources as a tool of engagement for the broader goal of peace and stability and advocates women’s leadership for better water ma...

Mangoes, Meat & Motors: Confronting the Climate on Manchester's Curry Mile is an event to explore how life/work/play on the Curry mile helps and/or hurts the environment. Although the Curry Mile is an important place for local cultures and economies,...

Catherine Walker has published her creative project book as part of the Young People at a Crossroads project. Entitled Young People at a Crossroads: Stories of climate education, action and adaptation from around the world, the book collates the voic...

The aim of the workshop was to bring together academics from diverse backgrounds to collaborate and focus on different infrastructures in the UK and beyond. By discussing how existing infrastructures shape our responses to the climate crisis and in w...

The paper develops an approach to the emergence of multiple economies of water in India’s capital Delhi, using a neo-Polanyian approach of instituted economic process. Prof Harvey argues that water is an ‘uncooperative public good’ and analyses the s...

Join us for an online discussion on "Water Security, Peace, and Sustainability" with SCI PhD student Chantal V. Bright on 2nd November from 2pm-3.30pm (BST).Water-related risks undermine human development and can contribute to migration and displacem...

He spoke alongside Akash Paun (Institute for Government), Ben Houchen (Tees Valley Mayor), Rain Newton-Smith (Confederation of British Industry), Asif Rehmanwala (Ecotricity) and Dr Nina Skorupska (Renewable Energy Association).Mat spoke about how re...

Please join us on 8th November from 6-7.30pm in the John Rylands Library for Helen Holmes and Nick Crossley’s (Sociology) event on Rave Renaissance with DJ Graeme Park.Tickets are available here.Manchester is renowned not just for its rich musical hi...

He spoke alongside Emelia Quist (Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)), Asif Rehmanwala (Ecotricity), Adam Scorer (National Energy Action (NEA)) and Labour MP Alan Whitehead (Shadow Energy Minister) about whether renewables can help alleviate the cos...

The new research projects started in September 2022 and the deadline for applications is end of day, 3rd October 2022.Contemporary crises and net zero transitions: Ukraine, COVID, and energyMat Paterson’s project ‘Contemporary crises and net zero tra...

SCI PhD researcher Zarina Ahmad was honoured with a 2022 Emma Goldman Snowball Award for innovative achievements in feminism and inequality research.Zarina is a feminist activist against climate change and for equal rights for ethnic minorities. In h...

Mike Hodson, Andy McMeekin and Andy Lockhart have presented their new conference paper "Platformisation and the Reconfiguration of Urban Public Transport Systems in England: Who’s in control?" at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of Briti...

His book chapter “Stockfree's Short Shadow: Shifting Food Systems Towards Sustainability by Re-Thinking Veganism as a Performative Practice of Production” makes a contribution to food system organizing with a practice approach.He argues that academic...

We are sad to say goodbye to Nafhesa Ali, who has started her new permanent position as Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria University in September.Nafhesa will continue to work alongside Sherilyn MacGregor, Tally Katz-Gerro and Zarina Ahmad on the ...

Together with Peter Hopkins, Raksha Pande, Claire Chambers and Richard Phillips Nafhesa Ali published the article about the benefits and risks associated with working with community interviewers in social and cultural research in the journal Area.Wor...

Thinking of goods as circular and leaving a lighter environmental footprint are ideas that are moving from niche to norm. Growing numbers of people now buy less stuff and buy better quality, longer-lasting goods.Some people also want to extend the li...

The inaugural issue of the journal 'Consumption and Society' published by Bristol University Press is out now.SCI Lecturer Dan Welch is among the founding co-editors of this journal focussed on articles that advance understandings of consumption as a...

The workshop saw academics from across the UK and the field of climate politics convene to discuss the findings of Mat Paterson’s SCI- and Tyndall-funded research project ‘Net Zero Populism’.There are a number of ways in which the UK’s climate strate...

The conference unpacked the UK Net Zero Strategy and the gap that remains between ambition and action, and covered the global energy crisis, the role of local government in enabling decarbonisation and unlocking net-zero innovation.In particular, Mar...

Catherine Walker will be speaking at a Sustainable Futures seminar alongside Jelena Ponocko, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Julien Harou, MUI/MERI, on 22nd September 2022 at 2pm. Her talk is entitled ‘From the classroom to t...

What links the University of Manchester’s library and the most notorious student halls in town, except for the high density of flared trousers and pastel coloured hair? Correct – countless Stagecoach buses, going up and down the Wilmslow Road bus cor...