Sustainable Consumption Institute Materialising sustainabilities, re-imagining futures Read the new research agenda for our next phase as an Institute. Find out more Research Groups We are developing research collaborations on emerging new themes. Projects We have an ambitious research programme for addressing key issues in sustainability. Themes Our four research themes explore how we can achieve less resource-intensive ways of life. About News Read the latest news from across the Institute. Partners We partner with a wide range of other groups and organisations beyond the Institute. People Find out more about the staff and students that work within our Institute. News See all What does a ‘metal intensive’ future entail? In this article, Dr Sampriti Mahanty and Professor Frank Boons explore the resilience of critical metals. Why we need connected strategies for net zero and levelling up In this piece, Professor Sherilyn MacGregor, Professor Matthew Paterson and Dr Helen Holmes, discuss the ‘Joined-up Sustainability Transformations’ (JUST) approach. Congratulations to Dr Helen Holmes, the newly appointed Deputy Director of Sustainable Futures SCI Senior Lecturer Helen Holmes has been appointed Deputy Director of the University’s sustainable research platform Sustainable Futures. The big business of sustainable food production and consumption Josephine Mylan and John Andrews have written an article which has been published by the prestigious article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on sustainable food production and consumption. Fatima Ibrahim as speaker at SCI Annual Lecture Co-founder and director of the youth movement Green New Deal Rising Fatima Ibrahim gave the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture 2023. Sustainable consumption by product substitution? An exploration of the appropriation of plant-based Josephine Mylan has co-authored an article in the journal Consumption and Society, “Sustainable consumption by product substitution? An exploration of the appropriation of plant-based ‘mylk’ in everyday life”. ‘Facilitating the transition to net zero’ and institutional change in the Bank of England James Jackson has published an article with Dan Bailey from Manchester Metropolitan University in Sage Journals focusing on the Bank of England and its environmental mandate in relation to net zero. The Rise of Anti-Net Zero Populism in the UK Professor Matthew Paterson, Stanley Wilshire and Dr Paul Tobin have written an article discussing the rise of anti-net zero populism in relation to climate change policy in the UK between 2021 and 2022. Towards new ecologies of automation: Robotics and the re-engineering of nature A research article exploring the use and interaction of automation technologies and robotics in the environment including in engineering nature. The Materiality of Nothing: Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present Dr Helen Holmes has written a monograph published by Routledge, The Materiality of Nothing: Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics Professor Matthew Paterson is a co-author on a chapter ‘Continuity and change in carbon market politics’ in a new book published by Oxford University Press. How platform businesses mobilize their users and allies Luke Yates has had an article published in the Socio-Economic Review. Where are low-carbon places made? A research article about where, how, when, and for whom low-carbon places are made.