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20 October 2022
Coinciding with COP27, the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme is hosting an exciting week of events in November celebrating its Phase II launch
A major new research study led by the University of Sussex shows that global science research is not addressing the SDGs.
12 October 2022
Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium teams up with Research Council of Norway, Vinnova and Business Finland to shape benchmarking of missions
30 September 2022
Academics at the University of Sussex and Newcastle University have been appointed to lead the next phase of energy demand research in the UK.
22 September 2022
Joint University of Zambia, Sussex and IDS research explores the ‘right to nutrition’ in its social, legal and political context
5 July 2022
Policy makers, funders and researchers from 35 countries test out new tools, actions and learnings for societal change.
30 June 2022
Chris Stark will present perspectives from the work of the independent authority on tackling climate change under the UK’s Climate Change Act.
3 May 2022
New study reveals the technologies and academic disciplines that are being overlooked by research funders in the global fight against climate change
14 April 2022
Authoritarian nationalist populists have a systemic tendency to create significant negative effect on climate policies when in government
11 April 2022
A set of newly approved projects, funded through HEIF and co-sponsored by the SSRP, address Covid-19 recovery and climate change in an integrated way.
7 April 2022
University of Sussex Business School experts on why the most impactful policies have been overlooked in the British Energy Security Strategy
New study reveals most remote workers in England before the pandemic travelled further each week than office-based workers despite taking fewer trips
4 April 2022
More government support with greater flexibility is needed to make solar panels viable option for elderly homeowners, student renters and the disabled
3 March 2022
The Sussex Sustainability Research Programme is making small grants available to eight exciting, interdisciplinary sustainability projects.
28 February 2022
The Sussex Energy Group Research Showcase outlines research projects on industrial decarbonisation and energy transition and justice in the Artic
4 February 2022
Transformative Innovation Policy Conference 2022 gathers researchers & policymakers for action on TIP research & policy.
2 February 2022
Promoting the benefits of vaccine to an individual is a more effective means of overcoming vaccine hesitancy than extolling broader societal benefits
31 January 2022
UK government policy must go further to ensure low carbon technologies are an affordable option for broader range of society.
24 January 2022
Widespread expectations 5G will be a green technology are not currently backed up by a strong, publicly available, fully transparent evidence base
13 January 2022
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