News
Spotlight on the latest news from across the Institute.
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Interview: Investment, Power and Protein in sub-Saharan Africa
18 Nov 2022
SCI Lecturer Jeremy Brice was interviewed for the podcast FEED about his new report: Investment, Power and Protein in sub-Saharan Africa. The place ...
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Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why we need inclusive climate change education
16 Nov 2022
SCI Researcher Catherine Walker published a new blog post on the SCI Blog entitled ‘Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why ...
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Confronting the climate on Manchester’s Curry Mile
14 Nov 2022
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 ...
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The unknowing expert – paper on ignorance in expert interviewing
11 Nov 2022
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 ...
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SCI Researcher investigates the digitalisation of off-grid water infrastructure in peri-urban Ghana
9 Nov 2022
Ensuring adequate access to clean water remains a major challenge throughout the world, particularly in off-grid and low-income neighbourhoods in the...
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Dr Maria Sharmina appointed Co-Director for Science and Engineering for Policy@Manchester
7 Nov 2022
Maria brings experience of working with policy makers, particularly across Government Departments. Her research on low-carbon energy and circular ...
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Investment, Power and Protein in sub-Saharan Africa
4 Nov 2022
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 ...
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Methods4Change project team at ESRC Festival of Social Sciences
2 Nov 2022
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 ...
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Kate Raworth to speak at SCI Annual Lecture
31 Oct 2022
We are delighted to announce that we are welcoming bestselling author and renegade economist Professor Kate Raworth for the Sustainable Consumption ...
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Water for Peace and Development: SCI PhD student attends World Water Forum
28 Oct 2022
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 ...
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Upcoming event: Mangoes, Meat & Motors - confronting the climate on Manchester’s Curry Mile
24 Oct 2022
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 ...
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Young People at a Crossroads: Stories of climate education, action and adaptation from around the world
21 Oct 2022
Catherine Walker has published her creative project book as part of the Young People at a Crossroads project. Entitled Young People at a Crossroads: ...
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New SCI blog on the challenges, strategies & opportunities of (re-)making infrastructures in the face of the climate crisis
20 Oct 2022
The aim of the workshop was to bring together academics from diverse backgrounds to collaborate and focus on different infrastructures in the UK and ...
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New publication on how the inequality crisis is linked to the sociogenesis of climate change
18 Oct 2022
The paper develops an approach to the emergence of multiple economies of water in India’s capital Delhi, using a neo-Polanyian approach of ...
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Upcoming seminar: Water security, peace, and sustainability
14 Oct 2022
Join us for an online discussion on "Water Security, Peace, and Sustainability" with SCI PhD student Chantal V. Bright on 2nd November from ...
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SCI Director speaking at Conservative Party Fringe event
7 Oct 2022
He spoke alongside Akash Paun (Institute for Government), Ben Houchen (Tees Valley Mayor), Rain Newton-Smith (Confederation of British Industry), ...
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Rave Renaissance with Graeme Park (British Pop Archive event)
3 Oct 2022
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...
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SCI Director speaking at Labour Conference Fringe Event
30 Sep 2022
He spoke alongside Emelia Quist (Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)), Asif Rehmanwala (Ecotricity), Adam Scorer (National Energy Action (NEA)) and ...
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SCI currently hiring two postdoctoral research associates
22 Sep 2022
The new research projects started in September 2022 and the deadline for applications is end of day, 3rd October 2022. Contemporary crises and net ...
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Prestigious Emma Goldman Award for Politics PhD researcher
22 Sep 2022
SCI PhD researcher Zarina Ahmad was honoured with a 2022 Emma Goldman Snowball Award for innovative achievements in feminism and inequality research....
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SCI members present research at conferences across Europe
9 Sep 2022
Mike Hodson, Andy McMeekin and Andy Lockhart have presented their new conference paper "Platformisation and the Reconfiguration of Urban Public ...
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Re-Thinking Veganism as a Performative Practice of Production
5 Sep 2022
His book chapter “Stockfree's Short Shadow: Shifting Food Systems Towards Sustainability by Re-Thinking Veganism as a Performative Practice of ...
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Staff changes at the SCI
2 Sep 2022
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....
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New article on working with community interviewers in social and cultural research
22 Aug 2022
Together with Peter Hopkins, Raksha Pande, Claire Chambers and Richard Phillips Nafhesa Ali published the article about the benefits and risks ...
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Choosing sufficiency for greater fulfilment and satisfaction
12 Aug 2022
Thinking of goods as circular and leaving a lighter environmental footprint are ideas that are moving from niche to norm. Growing numbers of people ...
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Inaugural issue of ‘Consumption and Society’ out now
12 Aug 2022
The inaugural issue of the journal 'Consumption and Society' published by Bristol University Press is out now. SCI Lecturer Dan Welch is among the ...
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SCI workshop: Net Zero Populism
28 Jul 2022
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 ...
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Putting Net Zero into Action: addressing the implementation gap
26 Jul 2022
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...
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SCI Researcher to speak at Sustainable Futures event in September
21 Jul 2022
Catherine Walker will be speaking at a Sustainable Futures seminar alongside Jelena Ponocko, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and...
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SCI Blog: The Other Side of the Fence - Consumption, Activism, and the Owens Park Tower Occupation
18 Jul 2022
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 ...
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Climate Emergency: How the Inequality Crisis is Dynamically Related to the Sociogenesis of Climate Change
13 Jul 2022
The article develops the analysis of the book following the failures of COP26, and is called ‘Climate Emergency: How the Inequality Crisis is ...
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SCI workshop on climate and sustainability emergencies as socio-technical challenges
1 Jul 2022
On 30th June SCI Research Associate Torik Holmes and his collaborators Carla de Laurentis and Rebecca Windemer (University of the West of England) ...
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Performing the Circular economy: How an ambiguous discourse is managed and maintained through meetings
1 Jul 2022
Malte Roedl has co-published a new paper in the Journal of Cleaner Production entitled ‘Performing the Circular economy: How an ambiguous discourse...
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The SCI at the Manchester Histories Festival
24 Jun 2022
Mat Paterson was part of a Manchester Histories Festival and Creative Manchester event on climate histories and politics with Vlad Jankovic and ...
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Sherilyn MacGregor promoted to Professor of Environmental Politics
16 Jun 2022
We are delighted to announce that Sherilyn MacGregor has been promoted to Professor of Environmental Politics. This is a fantastic achievement and ...
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Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness
14 Jun 2022
This paper adds to the literature on cultural stratification by revisiting cultural voraciousness, nearly two decades after it was first introduced ...
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New report on local energy systems across UK
14 Jun 2022
The authors found that local energy systems are often ultimately managed by organisations outside the core energy sector, including local ...
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The government’s energy strategy: missed opportunities, false solutions, better ways forward
1 Jun 2022
The government’s ‘British Energy Security Strategy’ released on the 7th April 2022 has raised more questions than answers for those in ...
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SCI PhD student wins Make A Difference Award
26 May 2022
After two years of online celebrations, The Making a Difference Awards returned in-person, with a hybrid livestream from our Whitworth Hall. The ...
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How are digital platforms being mobilised to re-imagine the future of cities? Inaugural lecture by Mike Hodson
24 May 2022
Innovation with urban infrastructure and its social organisation has become a key strategic concern for policymakers and other stakeholders at urban ...
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New SCI report: Incorporating Food into Manchester’s Climate Change Response
20 May 2022
The report has been published through the Manchester Climate Change Agency as part of the evidence base for the inclusion of food systems in ...
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Enabling Smart Water Communities: SCI researcher win funding in Ofwat Breakthrough Challenge
20 May 2022
The researchers have identified that significant challenges to customers, communities and the environment from frequent flood events remain, which ...
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New National Trust exhibition featuring SCI research
12 May 2022
Entitled Gathering Downstream, the exhibition launches a programme of activity, called Unintended Consequences that will encourage visitors to ...
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SCI Researcher visiting the University of Melbourne
12 May 2022
After many Covid 19-related delays Catherine Walker finally embarked on a three month research visit down under at SGEAS at University of ...
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Sustainable Consumption Institute to welcome two visitors this May
26 Apr 2022
Dr Annika Lonkila works at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and researches the politics of sustainable food system transitions from different...
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Trajectories in Environmental Politics
22 Apr 2022
Environmental Politics’ new book "Trajectories in Environmental Politics" is out now. This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of ...
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Prof Mike Hodson to host AMBS Original Thinking Lecture
20 Apr 2022
The AMBS Original Thinking Lecture will be hosted by Michael Hodson, Professor of Cities, Innovation and Society at the Sustainable Consumption ...
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SCI Director awarded Distinguished Scholar Award
19 Apr 2022
Due to COVID-19 Mat Paterson was finally awarded the ESS 2020 Distinguished Scholar Award at the International Studies Association Annual Convention ...
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Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how-to instructions
19 Apr 2022
The blog post investigates if we should be spending more time talking about methods. Human Geographers are playing a key role in developing creative,...
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New Oxfam report by SCI researcher: Caring in a changing climate
7 Apr 2022
The report fills a knowledge gap by examining the points of interaction between climate change impacts and the amount, distribution, and conditions ...
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