Projects

The project explores the question: How are the contemporary crises of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the character of post-COVID recoveries affecting the pursuit of ambitious climate policy towards ‘net zero emissions’?

Exploring the archives of ‘cotton’ to unsettle the celebration of Manchester’s history as a city of science and innovation.

Researching how digital platforms are reshaping urban mobility systems.

This project researches green energy transitions and global disruption in the transition to Net Zero.

This 3-year project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, sets out to study images of the future as imaginaries in a sustainable future.

JUST is a major research initiative focused on the pursuit of sustainability transformations that are people-centred, ‘joined-up’ and socially just. It seeks to accelerate understanding of a just transition through coordinating research into action at all levels of society.

This project focuses on net zero policies and it contributes to the development of the SCI’s strand of work on the politics of unsustainability.

Improving compliance with recycling by developing ‘One bin’ to hold all plastic-like items as well as improving recycling infrastructure.

Examining the webs of influence, interests, and tensions between food charities, food surplus distributors, and their corporate partners.

The project aims to develop a deeper understanding of the emerging green-tech SME business models.

The project aims to focus on UK climate policy and strategy to build on the previous internally funded project on net zero populism.

Addressing persistent challenges concerning recyclability in and beyond Greater Manchester.

‘The Waste Tip’ aims to explore the phenomena of fly-tipping through an interdisciplinary lens.

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.

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.

Exploring how the knowledge and practices of immigrants from the Global South contribute to building just and sustainable cities in the Global North.

Negotiations of environmental knowledges, practices and subjectivities in immigrant homes at a time of climate crisis.