Grants
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Dr James Woodcock | Transport Ops & Management | 01 February 2013
This study will create a model to improve understanding about how a step-change in cycle commuting in the uk could be achieved. Cycling could bring a number of benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously improving popu ...
Dr Simonetta Longhi | Economics | 01 January 2013
Energy overuse at the national level results both directly and indirectly from the aggregation of millions of individual household decisions. To achieve the department for energy and climate change’s aim of reducing uk greenhouse gas emissions ...
Dr Simon Parker | Human Geography | 01 January 2013
The rethinking centres and peripheries (recap) research seminar series aims to develop new thinking and to generate innovate research surrounding the uneven geographic development of britain’s cities and regions in the wake of the 2008 fin ...
Professor Amandine Garde | Socio Legal Studies | 31 December 2012
Food marketing has been associated with growing rates of obesity, a problem which has taken ‘pandemic’ proportions worldwide and entails heavy social and economic costs. This project aims to achieve a better understanding of the need and ...
Dr Rebecca Coleman | Sociology | 14 December 2012
The question of the future has been of interest for many years, but its significance intensifies in an ‘age of austerity’ in the uk, europe and some other parts of the developed western world. The conviction that the future will necessari ...
Dr David Wilkie | 01 December 2012
Investments to promote desired environment-development outcomes are some of the hardest to assess, because the causes of environmental resource scarcity are complex, and affect multiple aspects of human wellbeing, not just income. Credible evaluation ...
Dr Subramanian Arjunan | 01 November 2012
Recent years have witnessed renewed appreciation that agriculture could play a significant role in the pursuit of millennium development goals. In this context, the role of information dissemination through information and communication technology (i ...
Dr Kiron Chatterjee | Travel Behaviour | 01 November 2012
The aim of the project is to assess how life transitions influence travel behaviour and to identify opportunities from this for policy interventions to achieve desirable transport outcomes. Emerging research has established that significant changes i ...
Professor James Copestake | 18 October 2012
How can the impact of development activities intended to benefit poor men, women and children caught up in complex processes of rural transformation best be assessed?
the research sets out to develop and evaluate a protocol for impact assessment base ...
Dr Frauke Urban | Area & Development Studies | 15 October 2012
As china’s rapid economic growth has created a series of pressures, such as depletion of scarce domestic resources, the country is engaging more closely with low and middle income countries in asia and africa. Access to overseas natural resourc ...
Outputs
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Diane Holt | 18 June 2013 | Management & Business Studies | Other publication/report
Quarterly magazine from the insitute for small business and enterpreneurship. Summer issue 2013 on rural enterprise and selected invited articles. Article on 'social purpose ventures, bop communities and rural exclusion in the developing world'
William Paul Adderley | 13 June 2013 | Journal article
Journal publication
Ann Bruce | 06 June 2013 | Science and Technology Studies | Technical report
Historically, adoption of breeding technologies by sheep and beef farmers has been slow and variable. This research aimed to understand why, and if the context of reducing methane emissions was likely to change adoption rates. Sheep and beef farmers ...
Ann Bruce | 06 June 2013 | Science and Technology Studies | Technical report
Sheep and beef farmers around the uk were interviewed to find out if they would adopt a range of technologies to reduce methane emissions. * beef farmers produced a diverse range of outputs including environmental management as well as food productio ...
Ann Bruce | 06 June 2013 | Science and Technology Studies | Technical report
Sheep and beef farmers around the uk were interviewed to find out if they would adopt a range of technologies to reduce methane emissions. * sheep farmers worked in a range of different environments, some of them very challenging. Farmers talked abou ...
Ann Bruce | 06 June 2013 | Science and Technology Studies | Technical report
Sheep and beef farmers around the uk were interviewed to find out if they would adopt breeding and genetic technologies to reduce methane emissions.
Ann Bruce | 06 June 2013 | Science and Technology Studies | Technical report
Sheep and beef farmers around the uk were interviewed to find out if they would adopt a range of technologies to reduce methane emissions. * farmers worked in a range of different environments, some of them very challenging. They talked about a produ ...
Ann Bruce | 06 June 2013 | Science and Technology Studies | Technical report
Technical report
Laura Jeffery | 06 June 2013 | Social Anthropology | Book
The chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the chagos archipelago in the indian ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced chagos islanders in mauritius with the experiences of those chagossians ...
Renata Tyszczuk | 05 June 2013 | Human Geography | Book
Atlas: geography, architecture and change in an interdependent world helps readers find their way through the practical and ethical challenges presented by globalisation and global environmental change. Atlas: geography, architecture and change in an ...
Case Studies
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Case Study | 21 December 2012 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Voluntary sector
Social scientists from the esrc’s centre for business relationships, accountability, sustainability and society (brass) at cardiff university have developed a new methodology that allows findings to go beyond narrow academic circles. In a study of ...
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
A methodology for assessing the economic value of freshwater and marine environmental systems has led to a more cost-benefit based approach to implementation of the eu water framework directive in the uk.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Policy recommendations from the sussex energy group have shaped the uk government's position for climate change negotiations, as well as informing the chilean and indian governments on technology transfer policies.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
An environment law online resource is receiving more than 1,100 visitors per month, with most interest in issues around noise, waste and planning
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The research group on lifestyles, values and the environment has quantified how consumer purchasing decisions drive carbon emissions - helping to develop a business standard on carbon footprinting.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Research led by professor simin davoudi investigating how policy and political pressures are influencing current processes across england have been central to new government guidance on waste policy.
Features
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Feature | 07 May 2013 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media
A study supported by the esrc and the department for international development presents some surprising results of the controversial zimbabwean land reform - and challenges five particular myths.
Feature | 22 March 2013 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The challenges of food security, global food systems and our dependence on food imports is explored in a new report based on an esrc public policy seminar.
Feature | 04 March 2013 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
As we enter climate week, poll results have revealed that public concern about environmental issues and climate change has sunk to a 20-year low since the beginning of the global financial crisis.
Feature | 25 January 2013 | Business, General public, Press/media, Schools
The current model for supplying pig meat to uk consumers is ineffective and beset by a 'trader mentality' from leading supermarkets, and would benefit from more integrated ownership where companies have a vested interest throughout the supply chain, ...
Feature | 04 October 2012 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector, Schools
The parc study, funded through the esrc-supported national prevention research initiative, has analysed the effect and 'walkability' of pedestrian-friendly spaces in east belfast.
Feature | 10 August 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools
With a new football season coming up, environmental concerns may not be the first thing fans will be thinking of. But research shows how social responsibility and green practices might be the next big goal for football clubs.
Feature | 23 November 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Costly reforms to the common fisheries policy, due to take place in 2012, are likely to be doomed if european fisheries ministers continue to ignore scientific recommendations on fish quotas, warn researchers.
Feature | 04 October 2011 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Energy displays and smart meters are useful tools to manage energy use, but no 'magic bullet' against reduced fuel bills, suggests the rcuk-funded study domestic energy feedback.
Feature | 15 September 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Schools
Many of us claim to be concerned about the environment - but to really be sustainable we need to shift our thinking from a blind faith in technology to a deeper understanding of the links between our lifestyles and the environment, argues professor t ...
Feature | 10 June 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Press/media, Public sector
The true value of nature can be shown for the very first time thanks to groundbreaking research by hundreds of british scientists published in a major new report – the uk national ecosystem assessment (uk nea).
Press Releases
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Press Release | 19 June 2012 | Academic, Business, General public, International, Partnerships, Policymakers, Press/media
Vast differences in cycling cultures have been found in uk cities; for some cycling is a traditional transport accessible to all while for others it is a new edgy, urban subculture according to recent findings from a research project funded by the ec ...
Press Release | 28 February 2011 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
The first findings from the world’s largest study of households are now published. With data on our working lives, relationships, health, finances and neighbourhoods the understanding society publication gives an early taste of the social landscape o ...
Press Release | 10 September 2010 | General public, Press/media
The renewable energy sector needs to use a wider range of business models in order to ensure a fairer distribution of power plants across the uk, according to research funded by the economic and social research council (esrc).
Press Release | 12 March 2010 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector
The winner of the 2010 economic and social research council (esrc) knowledge transfer partnership prize for the best application of social or management science has saved the bradford and airedale teaching primary care trust (pct) an estimated £350,0 ...
Press Release | 05 March 2010 | General public, Press/media
Seventy-five per cent of the world's heather moorlands are in the uk. However, pollution, overgrazing and wild fires have damaged large areas. Several organisations in the peak district national park are trying to restore and conserve the moorland ha ...
Press Release | 03 March 2010 | General public, Press/media, Schools
Now in its eighth year, the economic and social research council's (esrc) festival of social science is aiming to provoke debate and discussion about climate change and the environment from young people across the uk.
Press Release | 23 November 2009 | General public, Press/media
70 per cent of households always separate their rubbish for recycling, but only 2 per cent buy their energy on a green tariff, according to the early findings of a major new annual household survey, called understanding society, funded by the economi ...
Press Release | 21 October 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Britain's children and young people are potential agents of change for the development of more sustainable communities in the uk, according to new research funded by the economic and social research council.
Press Release | 21 April 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Is the recession an opportunity to move away from some traditional, and environmentally unfriendly, industries to cleaner, greener industries to create new and sustainable employment?
Press Release | 14 April 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
A new joint economic and social research council and technology strategy board publication highlights the need to focus on improving the energy efficiency of millions of buildings in britain that will still be standing in 2050.
