Past Projects
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Building bridges: Sustainability education in Manchester and Brazil
A series of activities designed to explore the contribution of sustainability education and international knowledge circulation.
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Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED)
This research centre aims to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the emergence, diffusion and impact of low-energy innovations.
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Consumption, environmental change and everyday life: the political economy of future households
This project explores consumption and daily life at the level of the household, and their environmental and political-economic implications.
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Cultural cosmopolitanism
This research explores cosmopolitan cultural consumption among youth in Paris, Seoul and Sau Paulo.
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The cultural politics of household sustainability in Manchester
This research project investigates how Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) immigrants to Manchester from less industrialised countries understand and engage with ‘sustainability’ in everyday life.
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Endangered practices - maintenance and repair
This project focuses on endangered everyday practices of mending and recent grassroots initiatives to preserve and revitalise such skills.
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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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Environmental habitus
This research explores the intergenerational transmission of environmental behaviours in cross national comparison.
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Exploring transition pathways to sustainable, low-carbon societies
This unique European Union (EU) Framework Programme 7 (FP7) project explores the possibilities for transitions to a low-carbon, sustainable Europe.
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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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How do cities learn?
The key research problem that this proposed activity addresses concerns how cities learn to become more sustainable.
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Innovation for sustainable meat
This project explores the dynamics of innovation emerging in response to the ‘meat problem’.
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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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Makers, make do and mend: a newly thrifty consumer
Exploring thrifty consumption practices in a time of economic and political uncertainty.
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Making devolution work differently: transport and housing in Greater Manchester
This Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) Strategic Investment Fund project explores the work devolution is doing with housing and transport.
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Moral licensing
Moral licensing refers to behavioural patterns identified by psychology experiments where individuals who complete a ‘good act’.
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Opportunities and trade-offs of circular economy for mitigating climate change
We explore the role and potential of circular economy in reducing energy use and emissions, to enhance current energy-system models and low-carbon policies.
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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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Talking rubbish in Moss Side
Exploring the problem of litter in the streets and alleys of a deprived neighbourhood with a large student population.
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The coordination of grassroots innovation networks: a pilot study
The project will study how grassroots innovation networks emerge and evolve, and how they are coordinated.
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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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Urban data, inequality and justice in the global South
A critical evaluation of new data streams in cities of the global South through the lens of 'data justice'.
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