MANCHESTER - Key Persons
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- Lecturer in Sustainability and Innovation
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- Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering
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- Presidential Fellow ( Academic
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- Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Alice Swift is undertaking a PhD in Sociology at the University of Manchester's School of Social Sciences funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
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- Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature
Anna-Maria completed both her MA in Political Economy (Research Route) and her BA (Hons) in PPE at the University of Manchester.
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- Researcher at the Global Development Institute
Caroline Cornier is a doctoral researcher at the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester. Her research is located at the intersection of Global Political Economy and Postcolonial Theory focusing on economic, political and financial North-South relations. Her doctoral thesis concerns the unsustainable intersection of commodity dependence and financial subordination in the West African Cocoa Sector.
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- Senior Lecturer in Enterprise
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- Research Associate
- Co - Investigator )
Positionality: UK-born white Christian woman; full-time academic (early career) with PhD in human geography.
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- Research Institute Administrator ( SCI )
Chunhua Ye graduated from Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK, with an MSc in Marketing.
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- Reader in Fashion Marketing and Management
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- Chairman in Soil Microbial Ecology
Debbie studied social sciences at degree level and has a Masters degree in Information Management from Sheffield University. She is also a qualified teacher and has a teaching degree in Adult, Further and Higher Education from Manchester Metropolitan University.
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- Artist and Curator and Lecturer in Heritage Studies, the University
- Lecturer in Heritage Studies
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- Head of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Resource Centre and Education Trust ( AIURRC )
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- Director, Faith for Climate
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- Professor of Innovation and Sustainability
Hannah Battersby is a PhD student in the Philosophy department at the University of Manchester. Her research concerns ecological justice and the extension of justice to the more-than-human community.
Heather Urquhart began her PhD with the University of Manchester in September 2021 after completing a MRes in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow and a BA (Hons) In Human Geography at Durham University.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology
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- Research Institute Administrator ( MIOIR )
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- Professor in Human Geography
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- Solicitor, Chair of Khizra Mosque and GM Council of Mosques
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- Lecturer in Sustainability and Innovation
John is a doctoral researcher at Alliance Manchester Business School working on sustainable food system transitions, with a focus on veganism and 'alternative proteins'. He is particularly interested in the intersection of sustainability transitions and social movement studies.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Innovation
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- Professor of Financial Innovation
Karl Holmberg is a PhD student from the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden, who is visiting the SCI during the spring semester of 2024. His research explores the cultural political economy of plastics, focusing on how (single-use) plastics came to be rationalised in Sweden from 1945-1970 in the wake of the emergence of ideas of disposability and consumerism.
Linqing Xia is a Sociology PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Welch and Alison Browne. Her doctoral research mainly focuses on the teleoaffective formations of sustainable consumption in relation to China's postmodern consumer culture.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Magdalena graduated from The University of Manchester with a MSc in International Development: Environment, Climate Change and Development.
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- Lecturer in Energy and Project Management
We do not have a blueprint for sustainability transitions. Instead, we focus on how current forms of social and economic activity, and how they are constantly changing, shape the pursuit of sustainability. These include shifts in business practice and structure, intensified inequalities, social and technical innovation, global migration, novel social identities and practices, and political polarisation.
The SCI works as a close-knit, interdisciplinary community of critical social science scholars at various career stages to carry out this research agenda. We do so across diverse empirical contexts and deploy a diverse range of social science methodologies. We also do so with a focus on developing the work and careers of sustainability-oriented researchers working across the social sciences.
The SCI influences thinking on sustainable consumption within and beyond academia by developing meaningful relationships through long-term partnerships and collaborative projects, as well as leading and participating in wider knowledge-sharing activities through seminars, conferences, and networks.
We were established in 2008, with the principal aim of enhancing research and insight into one of the world's most pressing challenges: climate change.
Despite 20 years of rhetoric regarding the urgent need to address modern consumption patterns, we were among the first major research institutes to place consumption and its unsustainability at the heart of research enquiry.
We sought to utilise the unique strengths of The University of Manchester to bring interdisciplinary insight and clarity to the topic.
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- Professor of International Politics
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- Collections Officer, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Resource Centre and Education Trust ( AIURRC )
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- Professor of Polymer Science
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- Professor of Cities, Innovation and Society
Mingwei is undertaking a PhD programme in Science, Technology & Innovation Policy, fully funded by the Alliance Manchester Business School.
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- Social Worker and Khizra Mosque Youth Support Worker
Nuura is a second-year environmental science student who is the events officer in the Somali Society and has an interest in sustainability.
She will be helping to write reports, create blogs, and assist with social media for the project.
Separately from the TIES project, Nuura is working on a fundraising campaign with Islamic Relief and Human Appeal to send aid to Somalia and Northeastern Kenya to help communities affected by climate change and drought.
Paul Anthony Knowles is a PhD student in the English and American Studies department and his research is focused on the short story and ecocriticism. He is concerned with how literature can expose the anthropocentric violence inflicted on the past, present, and future of a landscape and his research promotes an ecocentric reconceptualization of human relationships with the more-than-human world.
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- Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Politics
Pawan Kumar Srikanth joined AMBS and the SCI as a fully funded PhD student in January 2022 researching pathways to circulating critical metals. He holds an M.E. in Environmental Engineering and a B.E. in Civil Engineering.
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- Lecturer in Politics, Governance & Development
Pujita is PhD student associated with Sustainable Consumption Institute and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (with MACE).
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology
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- Head of Neighbourhoods, Manchester City Council ( MCC )
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- Principal Investigator )
- Professor of Environmental Politics
Positionality: Canadian-born white woman; immigrant to the UK; full-time academic (professor of environmental politics) with PhD in environmental studies.
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- Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Stanley is a political economist and PhD student interested in the relationships between the political, economic and technical challenges involved in driving rapid and just transitions within capitalist societies.
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- Co - Investigator )
- Honorary Reader
Positionality: Israel-born European Jewish woman; migration background; first generation in higher education; full-time academic (professor of sociology) with PhD in sociology.
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- Research Associate from August 2023 )
Positionality: UK-born Sri Lankan heritage Buddhist woman; full-time academic (early career) with PhD in business studies.
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- Research Support Officer ( Finance Lead )
Zarina will work with Sherilyn, Nafhesa and Catherine on the Leverhulme sponsored project on Environmental Sustainability in Immigrant Households. Zarina was listed at Number 18 in the Women's Hour Power List in 2020 for her work on increasing participation in environmentalism in Scotland.