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Cairngorm mountain range - image credit Sandra Angers-Blondin
25/10/2024

Coproducing socioecological care with communities in the Highlands of Scotland

School of Social and Political Science (SPS) academic Dr Sarah Parry has received funding for a project exploring everyday care and its relationship to sustainability.
Enabling Sustainability Transitions
19/06/2024

Local authority engagement with small and medium-sized enterprises in energy efficiency: Governance approaches used in the Energy Efficient Scotland programme

Read about Katherine Sugar, Janette Webb, and Faye Wade's latest publication in Environmental Policy and Governance.

Equality, not sufficiency! Critical theoretical perspectives on the inequality-unsustainability nexus.
06/06/2024

Equality, not sufficiency! Critical theoretical perspectives on the inequality-unsustainability nexus

Isabelle Darmon's latest publication draws on critical theory and Marxist and feminist political ecology to examine the relationship between inequality and unsustainability as a nexus powered by accumulation and dispossession.
Sus+ Network Launch
29/02/2024

Sus+ Launch

We recently launched the Sus+ network - read to find out more about our first event.
Transformative Pedagogies for a Sustainable Future
16/01/2024

Transformative Pedagogies for a Sustainable Future

In December we held a one-day symposium in celebration of Rachel Howell.

Enabling Sustainability Transitions
07/12/2023

Funded PhD Project: Enabling Sustainability Transitions

Opportunity to do a fully funded PhD on sustainability transitions at the University of Edinburgh, working with an interdisciplinary supervision team.
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22/09/2023

Stakeholder engagement workshops on Scotland’s feminist approach to foreign policy: evidence report

Based on five stakeholder workshops, with feminists from Scotland and across the Global South, this reports synthesises recommendations for the Scottish Government as it develops a feminist approach to its external relations.
hands holding a plant
22/09/2023

The Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace and Planet project has received further funding

The FRSPP is based on the premise that building and sustaining peace requires addressing both the inequalities, marginalisations and exclusions that underlie armed conflicts, and the climate and biodiversity crises that undermine human security.
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22/09/2023

Critical Feminist Engagements with Green New Deals, Feminist Economics - Carol Cohn & Claire Duncanson (2023)

This article aims to increase our understanding of Green New Deals (GND), and the ways in which, in their current guises, they will fail to tackle the interconnected ecological and inequalities crises they aim to address.
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11/09/2023

Breaking climate justice ‘silence’ in everyday life: The environmentalist killjoy, negotiation and relationship risk

In the latest journal article from Dr Lisa Howard, drawing from her PhD study of ‘everyday’ forms of environmental activism, she explores how climate activists find ways to engage in difficult moral discussions about unsustainable living with their non-activist family, friends, and colleagues.
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11/09/2023

Stadt und Land in der Klimakrise

Jan Eichhorn has authored a report for the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation
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11/09/2023

UK climate leadership: lost and found?

Read Professor Elizabeth Bomberg’s commentary on how the UK lost its climate leadership, and how it might gain it back