Sustainable Consumption Institute

We are delighted to announce that Harriet Bulkeley will be speaking at the Sustainable Consumption Institute annual lecture! 🗓 Tuesday 3rd December 🕒 3-4.30pm Governing with Nature: towards climate and social justice? • Nature-based solutions promise to address environmental, climate, and social issues • Optimism stems from nature's inherent benefits and multipurpose interventions • These solutions are gaining popularity, especially in urban environments • Cities now focus on governing with nature for climate and social justice Following Harriet's talk, there will be a panel discussion led by Matthew Paterson with Charis Enns of Global Development Institute, Mike Hodson of the SCI and Alliance Manchester Business School and Carly McLachlan of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research 🎤 There will then be an audience Q&A and we'll finish with a drinks reception 🎟 Registration is essential so book your free tickets here: https://bit.ly/3ZTBkyE

🌍 Join us for our Albatross lecture on ethical approaches to the illegal cactus trade, followed by a panel discussion and exclusive tour of the WILD exhibit at Manchester Museum! 📅 Date: Jan 23, 2025, 11am-2pm 📍 Location: AMBS 🎟️Register now! https://lnkd.in/eeWN2Bfi Panel Q&A with: Dr Jared Margulies, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama Dr Helen Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of Sustainable Futures, The University of Manchester Dr Oliver Hughes, Technical Manager, Firs Environmental Research Dr Charis Enns, Presidential Fellow in Socio-Environmental Systems at the Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester. Find out why the lecture is called the Albatross lecture here: https://lnkd.in/eKqMcyf6 #conservation #biodiversity #wildlifetrade

👍 What a day! Yesterday, academics from The University of Manchester delivered exceptional research insight that left us inspired and hopeful for the future when it comes to our environment. 🌍💡 The panel discussions were filled with thought-provoking ideas, useful advice, and the energy in the room was absolutely electrifying! 🔥 Thank you to every single person who joined us, presented, or cheered from the sidelines. Special thanks to our collaborators— Henry Royce Institute, Manchester Environmental Research Institute and the Sustainable Consumption Institute — and our amazing hosts at Alliance Manchester Business School. What a dream team! 🏢🎉 The day brought people together from both The University of Manchester and beyond to share their thoughts into how interdisciplinarity helps shape better research for a greener future 👥 💚 ❗ 📩 Don't forget to sign up to our mailing list so you are the first to know about any future opportunities like this to learn, collaborate, connect and present ➡ https://lnkd.in/ev2Eu34W Until next year! #SFConference #InterdisciplinaryResearch #SustainableFutures #Sustainability The University of Manchester | Henry Royce Institute | Alliance Manchester Business School | Sustainable Futures at The University of Manchester | Tim Foster | Matthew Paterson | Helen Holmes | Michaela Kiernan | Ciara McGrath | Suzanne Embury | Ricardo Climent | Dr Suneel Kunamaneni, PhD, MBA | Jane Wood | Neil Dixon | Michael Shaver | Bill Sampson | Chloe Jeffries | Alice Larkin | Jingyi Li | Alejandro Gallego Schmid | Cathy Hollis | Tim Braunholtz-Speight | Cyrill Bussy | Sophie Nixon | Charis Enns | Tom McDonald | @Elisabeth Allen | @Ben Parkes | @Anke Bernau | @Aurora Fredriksen | @Ingrid Hanson | @Gareth Clay | Hannah Baron | Alexandra Prodan | Keiko Ivinson | Yingroo CHEN | Madhav Banati | Rebecca Evans | Dr. Stephen Lowe | Abhilasha Fullonton | Chloe Best

🌟 It’s Tomorrow! 🌟 The Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research Conference is just around the corner, and we couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 📅 Date: 12 December 2024 🕒 Time: 09:30 - 17:30 📍 Location: Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester 👀 Get ready for a day packed with inspiring talks, innovative research, and unmissable networking opportunities as we unite researchers and thought leaders in environmental sustainability. 🌍✨ 🤝 Organized with the Manchester Environmental Research Institute, Henry Royce Institute, and the Sustainable Consumption Institute, this event promises to spark ideas and collaborations that will shape a better future. 💡 🔬 Get ready now for an incredible day tomorrow! We can’t wait to see you there —let’s shape the future of sustainability together! 🌱💬 #Sustainability #SFConference #SustainableFutures #UniversityOfManchester #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Investing in Interdisciplinarity: UMRI Pump-Priming Call Launch Event 2.30 - 4pm, 14 January 2025 🐝 The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) is launching the latest round of pump-priming awards in January 2025, designed to ignite UoM Researchers innovative interdisciplinary research projects. 💡 Think Big, Think Bold Awards of up to £50K available, you’ll have one year to explore new ideas and forge exciting collaborations that push the boundaries of interdisciplinarity. 📽️ Interdisciplinarity Explained Watch our videos to get inspired: https://lnkd.in/emrnGT8U Applications are: Sought from researchers across all discipline areas. To be led by an applicant who is eligible to apply for external research funding. Research associates and research fellows may be included as a Co-PI if the expected outcome of the project will support their applications for independent funding. Encouraged from early career researchers. For this call early career researchers are defined as being employed in a non-permanent research position or holding a research fellowship or an academic post and who has less than eight years (full time equivalent and excluding periods of maternity, paternity and sick leave) of post-doctoral research experience. Preference will be given to applications led by non-professorial staff or staff recently appointed or promoted to professor (in last two to three years).  Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/egBtP_-c

Yesterday afternoon, we hosted our Annual Lecture where Professor Harriet Bulkeley presented her research on governing with nature and nature-based solutions for cities 🌿 Harriet introduced the Urban Nature Atlas, a database of 1000 nature-based solutions from a variety of cities across the world. You can find the resource here https://una.city 🌍 Harriet researches infrastructuring nature to find more resilient solutions, to work towards justice and to look at how nature could become infrastructural to govern with it. Working with the Dutch government, Harriet aims to bring about legislative change. Questions from our 3 panel members discussed if experimentation can lead to the emergence of further changes and whether we should look at transformative change instead. This could be co-benefits such as learning what needs to be done in a cultural way to create good societies which are culturally and economically strong. Thank you to all who attended and engaged, to Mat and our panel, and particular thank you to Harriet for a brilliant presentation. We will share the video recording of the lecture in due course 🎬

Research Director of the SCI and Professor of Cities, Innovation and Society at Alliance Manchester Business School Michael Hodson has introduced the SCI's new research agenda and strategy via the short video below 📽️ Understanding Sustainability in a Turbulent World The research agenda of the Sustainable Consumption Institute for 2025-29 is organised around the core question of ‘How does continual social change shape the pursuit of sustainability?’ We focus on the way that ongoing disruptive transformations are the background within which efforts to pursue sustainability need to be understood. 📘 Visit our website to read more about the agenda here https://lnkd.in/dJEnHEmn

Join the Sustainable Consumption Institute at their annual lecture tomorrow from 3pm to 4.30pm where Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Deputy Executive Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Social Sciences at Durham University will discuss the topic "Governing with Nature: towards climate and social justice?" Find out more and register 👇

🎙️ We’re excited to announce that Prof Matthew Paterson, Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Professor of International Politics at The University of Manchester, will be speaking at the Celebrating Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research Conference! 📚 Matthew’s research delves into the political economy, global governance, and cultural politics of climate change. His latest book, In Search of Climate Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2021), explores the evolving dynamics of climate action. He is currently launching a new project on the political economy of energy transitions, with a focus on how supply chain disruptions shape these shifts. 💡 At the conference, Matthew will present insights from his project: Contemporary Crises and Net Zero Transitions: Ukraine, COVID, and Energy. This fascinating work examines how these intertwined crises have influenced climate policy. Challenging the common assumption that economic crises hinder environmental action, his findings reveal a more complex story: while progress remains insufficient to address the climate crisis fully, there are opportunities for climate advocates to leverage future crises for stronger action. 👀 Don’t miss this engaging session on how global challenges intersect with the path to net zero! Join the waitlist here: https://lnkd.in/eQswcVwP #SFConference2024 #ClimateAction #NetZero #EnergyTransitions #Sustainability #TheUniversityofManchester #SustainableFutures

The Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture is only one week away! 📆Tuesday 3rd December ⏰3-4.30pm Our panel speakers are Professor Harriet Bulkeley (Durham University), Professor Michael Hodson (SCI and Alliance Manchester Business School), Presidential Fellow Charis Enns (Global Development Institute) and Professor Carly McLachlan (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research). Following Harriet's presentation, SCI Director and Professor of International Politics Matthew Paterson will chair the panel discussion, and we will end with an audience Q&A session. Following this we'll have a drinks reception outside the lecture theatre. 🎟️ Tickets are free but you must register to attend. You can find the event here on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3ZTBkyE