Read news from the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.
24 May 2021
Benjamin Sovacool will be co-director and the University leads on 3 research topics at the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre
12 April 2021
The Business School is working with two Korean institutions to develop collaboration between science and technology policy professionals.
8 April 2021
The role of enthusiastic heat pump adopters in spreading the word is as important as Government policy, education and training.
30 March 2021
AACSB International recognises the global impact of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium
26 March 2021
The true social, environmental and health costs of the UK energy sector is paid for by society at large rather than the industry or its consumers
25 March 2021
Scotland’s progression to a low carbon future is likely being held back by national security policy from Westminster.
19 March 2021
The social, environmental and health costs of the US energy sector dwarves the revenues of the country’s upstream oil and gas industry ($181 billion)
16 March 2021
University of Sussex experts have urged policy makers to support diverse land use management to meet the diverse needs and values of people and...
4 March 2021
A new study argues that global energy modellers need to take rebound effects more seriously, and find ways of capturing their full range of effects.
The University has been number one in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for development studies for six out of the past seven years.
1 March 2021
Join us at our launch events! We are excited to formally launch the PEER Network at two online launch events in March 2nd & 4th, 2020.
The hidden social, environmental and health costs of the energy and transport sectors is equal to more than a quarter of global economic output.
5 February 2021
This week the Business School celebrated the achievements of recently graduated Masters students at a virtual prizegiving event.
1 February 2021
The PRME Chapter UK and Ireland writing competition 2021 is now open for entries.
29 January 2021
The UK Government is failing in its duty to protect food supplies and support healthy nutrition in the face of the twin threats of Covid and Brexit.
26 January 2021
The Eu-SPRI Mini Course considered how the future will look given the opportunities and challenges created by technological transformations.
25 January 2021
Swedish innovation chief opens event with Business School researchers and calls for sustainability and resilience based on a systemic perspective.
2 December 2020
Dr Rob Byrne tells the Impacted podcast how the CRIBs approach he helped develop is now being pursued by the World Bank and the African Union
19 November 2020
Nine University of Sussex academics have been included in the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List – up from seven in last year’s global rankings.
18 November 2020
Members of the Science Policy Research Unit analyse plans unveiled by the Prime Minister designed to reduce UK net carbon emissions to zero by 2050
