People and partners

The Director of the JUST Centre will be Sherilyn MacGregor at The University of Manchester. Its deputy director will be Matthew Paterson, also at The University of Manchester, and the impact lead will be Emily Morrison at the Institute for Community Studies.

JUST involves a large core team of social science researchers in five universities across the North of England, as well as the Institute for Community Studies as a key impact partner.

Alongside the Institute of Community Studies, we plan to collaborate with eight other national project partners, as well as many others within the regions in which we will work:

• Institute for Government
• Local Government Association
• Welsh LGA
• Sustainable Scotland Network
• British Chambers of Commerce
• NHS Confederation
• Citizens UK
• Runnymede Trust

Mandy Nyarko MBE will serve as Chair of JUST’s Advisory Board and Julian Agyeman will chair an international academic critical friends network.

Impact lead:

• Emily Morrison, Director of Sustainability and Just Transition, the Institute for Community Studies [youngfoundation.org] at The Young Foundation, and Director, Institute for Community Studies.
  
  

Our five university partners:

University of Manchester (lead university)

Sherilyn MacGregor, Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Manchester.

• Stefan Bouzarovski, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester
• James Evans, Professor of Human Geography, University of Manchester
• Helen Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
• Claire Hoolohan, Research Fellow, Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester
• Matthew Paterson, Professor of International Politics, University of Manchester
  
  

Lancaster University

• Jacob Ainscough, Senior Research Associate, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
• Alexandra Gormally-Sutton, Senior Lecturer in Subsurface and Society, Lancaster University
• Rebecca Willis, Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster University

University of Leeds

• Pepa Ambrosio Albala, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
• Lucie Middlemiss, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Leeds
• Anne Owen, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
• Harriet Thew, Lecturer in Climate Change, University of Leeds

University of Liverpool

• Peter North, Professor of Alternative Economies, University of Liverpool
• Alexander Nurse, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Liverpool

Newcastle University

• Danny MacKinnon, Professor of Regional Development and Governance, Newcastle University
• Derek Bell, Professor of Environmental Political Theory, Newcastle University