Projects
Explore the ambitious research programme that allows us to address key issues in sustainability.
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Toward socially just climate finance: Insights from the Brazilian Amazon
This project collaborates with the German GIZ and the Brazilian BNDES/ Amazon Fund for Forest Conservation and Climate Protection to better understand sustainable development implications of cross-cutting social issues, including gender and human rights, in climate finance mechanisms.
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The Business of Food Poverty: Mapping relationships and strategies of key actors in an emerging field
This project will examine the webs of influence, interests and tensions between food charities, food surplus distributors, and their corporate partners.
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Consumption work and the circular economy
This scoping study will explore forms of consumption work there are actually occurring around Circular Economy.
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Digital platforms and the future of urban mobility
This major three-year study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, researches how digital platforms are reshaping urban mobility systems.
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Eating out
The central activity of this project is to (largely) replicate a study carried out in the mid-1990s under the ESRC Nation’s Diet Programme.
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Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES)
A three-year study funded by the Leverhulme Trust exploring how the knowledges and practices of immigrants from the Global South contribute to building just and sustainable cities in the Global North.
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Everyday activisms in China: Navigating water, food, air quality
The environmental challenges that Chinese citizens face on a daily basis.
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Food Banks During COVID-19 Times: Challenges and Prospects
'Food banks during COVID-19 times' aims to gain a fine-grained understanding on how different emergency food providers are responding to this unprecedented crisis.
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Healthy Cities 2019: Urbanisation, infrastructures and everyday life in East Asia
Sponsored keynote by Dr Manisha Anantharaman at the 2019 Hallsworth Conference.
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Imagined futures of consumption
Exploring individuals’ expectations of their own future consumption, and that of future generations.
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Lost property
This pilot project seeks to explore lost property and potential connections to sustainability and notions of the circular economy.
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One Bin to Rule Them All
Aiming to improve compliance with recycling by developing ‘One bin’ to hold all plastic like items as well as improving recycling infrastructure to create more usable recycled plastics that can be fed back into a circular economy.
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Reshaping the domestic nexus at home
Working with key policy partners, we are applying practice theory to better inform interventions aimed at changing demand for water, energy and food.
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RE3 - Addressing the plastics challenge
The University of Manchester secured one of 7 UKRI PRIF grants to develop the capacity for interdisciplinary research to help address the plastics challenge.
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Social movements and the politics of sustainable consumption
Developing a European network and a new research agenda.
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Successful business models for plastic reduction
Researching successful business models that are effectively contributing to the reduction of plastic production.
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Sustainable consumption and production and political economy in the UK food service sector
This project addresses the relation between corporate governance, or ownership structure, and sustainable consumption and production.
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The evolution of the Circular Economy - mapping research and practice
Funded through a competitively won PhD Scholarship from AMBS, this mixed-methods project combines quantitative machine learning methods with qualitative social science methods to map the evolution of the concept of a circular economy.
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Toward a ‘Green Recovery’ in Food Provision: Influencing Policy in Manchester
Developing proposals for how to use the COVID-19 recovery as an opportunity to shift toward healthier, more equitable, more sustainable and zero-carbon food systems.
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Understanding, modelling and visualizing regeneration and change
Industrial and urban regeneration policies often contain a heavy focus on promoting growth.
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Understanding stability and change in British drinking using 16 years of market research data
An investigation into how and why British drinking culture is changing in the 21st century.
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Urban platforms: corporate or civic digital transformation?
This project supports research visits to Toronto and London, in autumn 2018.
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Young people at a crossroads
Negotiations of environmental knowledges, practices and subjectivities in immigrant homes at a time of climate crisis.
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