University of Manchester - Archive (sustainable-consumption-institute)
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2021
22
January
2021
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13:54
Europe/London
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...
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2020
19
November
2020
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08:00
Europe/London
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...
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07
October
2020
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15:12
Europe/London
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 ...
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29
May
2020
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14:49
Europe/London
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...
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26
May
2020
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11:51
Europe/London
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...
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14
May
2020
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10:00
Europe/London
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...
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11
May
2020
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11:00
Europe/London
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...
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07
May
2020
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16:04
Europe/London
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...
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06
May
2020
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11:43
Europe/London
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.
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This project will investigate how...
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2019
04
December
2019
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15:13
Europe/London
The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has launched the Winter 2019 edition of its newsletter, which is now available to download here....
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19
September
2019
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10:14
Europe/London
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...
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22
July
2019
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15:04
Europe/London
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...
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17
July
2019
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16:43
Europe/London
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).
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10
May
2019
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09:59
Europe/London
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...
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22
March
2019
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14:20
Europe/London
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...
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07
March
2019
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09:11
Europe/London
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 ...
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28
February
2019
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09:08
Europe/London
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...
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27
February
2019
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10:34
Europe/London
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 ...
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25
February
2019
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11:32
Europe/London
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...
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19
February
2019
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09:46
Europe/London
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...
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04
February
2019
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12:13
Europe/London
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...
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2018
22
November
2018
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10:35
Europe/London
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...
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12
November
2018
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12:20
Europe/London
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...
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14
May
2018
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10:11
Europe/London
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...
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18
April
2018
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10:18
Europe/London
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...
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16
April
2018
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10:22
Europe/London
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...
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11
April
2018
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10:26
Europe/London
The SCI’s Professor Frank Geels has been selected as a Lead Author of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC*).
Contributions from three working groups will be published in 2021, followed by the Sy...
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02
March
2018
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10:30
Europe/London
The researchers suggest we should take the on-going dynamics of everyday life in China as a starting point, rather than simply focusing on creating food transitions through top-down interventions.
In 2016 two sets of dietary guidelines were releas...
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2017
14
September
2017
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13:00
Europe/London
Earlier this year, England got its first ever litter strategy. It was a moment of triumph for groups such as Keep Britain Tidy, which have campaigned for action over decades. Citing the long-established evidence that litter costs taxpayers billions t...
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