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The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) is an interdisciplinary research institute established to look at issues around environmental sustainability.
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📢 SCI Annual Lecture 2025🚗 with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore

Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill.

🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A
📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30
👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture: Prof. Henrietta L. Moore
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture!
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🚨 Less than a week to go! 🚨

Join Proffessor Dame Henrietta Moore at the SCI Annual Lecture 2025 on 2 Dec at AMBS. Explore Roadkill & the impact of car culture on sustainability🚗

Panel, Q&A & drinks to follow.

📍 Theatre 2.008 | Dec 2, 16:15–17:45

👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture: Prof Dame Henrietta Moore
Join us for an inspiring talk by Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture!
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November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Donald Trump has snubbed COP30.

COP29 was defined by hostility and division.

Global heating limits of 1.5C are increasingly unlikely.

So how can pro-climate actors agree on strategy?

@matpaterson.bsky.social and Dr Paul Tobin explore how to pull back from climate change.

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November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
📢 SCI Annual Lecture 2025🚗 with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore

Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill.

🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A
📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30
👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture: Prof. Henrietta L. Moore
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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🌱 What does the future of green careers look like?
Join leading voices across Greater Manchester to discuss skills for a greener and fairer future.

📅 6 Nov | 🕜 2pm–3.30pm (Hybrid) | 📍 Manchester Mechanics Institute
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-jobs...

#ESRCFestival #McrESRCFest @ukri.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🔔New Blog!🔔

I recently contributed to this article which emerged from @manchestersci.bsky.social's “Governing Polycrisis and Sustainabilities” workshop held in Feb. It is a collab between SCI colleagues Sandra Barragan, Tetyana Solovey, Usman Aziz and myself.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/10/...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Reflections on the role of Optimism and Pessimism in  taking action on Sustainability
SCI researchers explore sustainability in a time of polycrisis examining how optimism, trust, and market logic can both drive and hinder sustainable transformations.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Part of the ESRC Festival, The Making Room Fair in Manchester celebrates sustainable fashion through upcycling, repair, and creative making for a greener future.

Read the new SCI blog here: bit.ly/47DIwTe

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#ESRCFestival
What We Learned from The Making Room Fair
Discover sustainable fashion at The Making Room Fair—repair, reuse, and upcycling in Manchester!
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November 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🌍 Sustainability isn’t just about tech or policy. It’s about mindset.

This blog from @manchestersci.bsky.social explores how optimism and pessimism influence climate actions. Both hope and doubt are important, but are we brave enough to accept this tension?

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/10/...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Reflections on the role of Optimism and Pessimism in  taking action on Sustainability
SCI researchers explore sustainability in a time of polycrisis examining how optimism, trust, and market logic can both drive and hinder sustainable transformations.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How do optimism, trust, and market logic shape sustainability efforts—and hold them back?

A new SCI blog explores the emotional and political tensions shaping today’s sustainability landscape.

Read more on ‘anti-governance’ and collective action in a time of polycrisis. 🌍👇
October 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What if the UK’s path to Net Zero meant digging backwards?
Pawan Srikanth & Daniel Welch explore how landfill mining could reclaim land, recover resources, and boost circular economy — sparking discussion on costs, benefits & risks for the UK.

👉Read it here: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/09/...
No room for waste - unlocking the potential of landfill mining
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October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📢New publication📢

SCI colleagues @matpaterson.bsky.social and Paul Tobin have a new, open access, edited book out 📗

Follow below for a short thread outlining the book and find a link to the book 👇

#climategovernance #policy #climatechange #globalresponse #politicization
Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/
August 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Last chance to register! How to Create a Good Food Revolution 🌍

🗓 Wed 25 June | 🕠 17:30–19:00
📍 AMBS + online
🎙 Prof Kevin Morgan + expert panel

Join us to explore how public food policy can drive system-wide change—for justice, health and ecological integrity.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/3HLYBf4
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
June 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🚨 New Policy Report: Beyond the Tick-Box – Meaningful Inclusion of Racialised Communities in UK Net Zero Policy

This report by UoM staff explores barriers & offers steps toward truly inclusive climate action.

📄 Read: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...

#NetZero #ClimateJustice #Inclusion
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May 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🚨 New Blog: JUST Centre Launch: Reimagining Climate Action 🌍

UoM's new JUST Research Centre shifts focus from individual change to community-driven, just climate solutions. Read insights from Sherilyn MacGregor, Matthew Paterson & Helen Holmes.

🔗 Read: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/04/...
April 2025
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May 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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The University’s @ManchesterSCI.bsky.social hosted their first workshop in the Understanding Sustainability in a Turbulent World series, bringing together experts to discuss governance amid global crises

Find out more:
Governing sustainability > Social Responsibility
Hosted by the University’s Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), the first workshop in the Understanding Sustainability in a Turbulent World series took place on 26 February, titled Governing…
www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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📢New blog by @james7jackson.bsky.social - How the Insurance Sector is Practically Ignorant to Climate Risks

🔥Insurers are, of course, not blind to the fact that climate change is no longer a future event, but something that impacts policyholders in the here and now... 🔗https://bit.ly/42DiNGI
April 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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The launch of the JUST Centre (Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations) marked a significant step toward sustainability and social justice⚖️

Find out more: www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/all-news/jus...
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April 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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🆕Exciting news!

Five of our distinguished academics from @uniofmanchester.bsky.social have been named Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences, recognising their outstanding contributions to social sciences and their impactful work in addressing significant societal challenges.

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April 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Sherilyn MacGregor & Prof. Matthew Paterson on being elected Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences!

Their research on environmental justice & climate politics is shaping policy & driving real-world impact. 🌍👏 #SocialSciences #Sustainability #UoM

🔗 bit.ly/SoSSFellows
April 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🌍 Capturing the Disruptive Nature of Green Energy Transitions: A Political Economy Approach ⚡️

New paper by Sandra Jazmin Barragan-Contreras, Matthew Paterson, James Jackson, Silke Trommer, Pritish Behuria, & Sam Hickey explores disruptions of green energy transitions🌱🔍

🔗Read it: bit.ly/GETSarticle
March 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Excited for the JUST Centre launch tomorrow🎉

Join Sherilyn MacGregor (Centre Director) and Matthew Paterson (Deputy Director & SCI Director) for this important milestone. 🚀

📅 12 March, 5-7pm
📍 People's History Museum, M3 3ER
🎟️ Register here: bit.ly/JUSTlaunch

🔗See more about JUST: bit.ly/SCI_JUST
JUST Centre Launch
JUST Centre Launch - Joining Up For a Sustainable Future
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March 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Making and Upcycling: A Solution to Fashion’s Waste Crisis? 🌍👗

This #RepairWeek, we’re exploring how craft, repair, and reuse can revolutionize sustainability in fashion. Tetyana Solovey delves into this in our latest SCI blog post:🔗https://bit.ly/3DkZWYo

#SustainableFashion #Upcycling #ZeroWaste
March 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Really excited about this launch of our new research Centre JUST - Joined Up Sustainability Transformations. Come join us. @manchestersci.bsky.social @justcentre.bsky.social
The new JUST Centre is launching! Join us on March 12 in Manchester to learn about our paradigm shifting, ESRC-funded research agenda for the next 5 years.
#JustTransition

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JUST Centre Launch
JUST Centre Launch - Joining Up For a Sustainable Future
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February 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📌 Join Our Research Community at SCI!

The Sustainable Consumption Institute invites early-career researchers to apply for:
🔹Simon & Hallsworth Fellowships (Doctoral degree required)

4x Simon Research Fellowships
5x Hallsworth Fellowships (External Engagement & Impact Focus)
February 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM