Research centres and projects
Our research focuses on crucial aspects of today's world, from energy demand to trade policy, from sustainability to innovation and digital technologies at work.
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Research centres
Research programmes
Sussex Energy Group
Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium
UK Trade Policy Observatory
Sussex Sustainability Research Programme
Deep Transitions Futures
Industrial Decarbonisation
Projects
- Energy
EMPOCI
This project investigates how the global low-carbon transition in energy and mobility systems can be accelerated on a regional and national level.
Household and Community Labour in Smart Local Energy Systems project
This project examines how households and communities contribute vital, but often overlooked, work to make smart local energy systems successful.
Other projects in this area
- Post-COVID-19, Net Zero, Heating of Buildings
- Local Green New Deals: a sustainable and equitable path for post Covid-19 recovery
- Democratising the Just Transition: the Role of Community Wealth Building
- Whole Person - Whole Place energy solutions for net-zero neighbourhoods
- SIGMA: Sustainability, inclusiveness and governance of mini-grids in Africa
- ROLES: Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies
- Going Dutch
- Innovation pathways for the low-carbon transition in Europe
- Fracking, Framing and Effective Participation
- Carbon Intensive Regions in Transition
- JUSTNORTH – researching Arctic economies, environments and societies
- National Centre for Energy Systems Integration
- SWS Heating
- the Solar-Biomass Reversible project
- FAIR: Fuel and Transport Poverty in the UK’s Energy Transition
- Smart Energy Transition research
- Social Innovation in Energy Transitions
- Operationalising Socio-Technical Energy Transitions
- the TRansit project: modelling transition risk
- Estimating, profiling and escaping energy poverty in Canada
- SCOPE: Sustainable OPEration of post-combustion Capture plants
- Facilitating a Just, Fair, and Affordable Energy Transition in the Asia-Pacific
- International Trade and Business
Brexit Uncertainty and the Northern Ireland Protocol
This project examines the consequences of Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol for Northern Ireland firms and their trade within the UK’s Internal Market.
Other projects in this area
- Readjustments to trade and investment dependency on China in global supply chains
- Remanufacturing E-Marketplace for a Circular Digital Supply Chain (REMP)
- Education Partnership for Promoting High-Value Manufacturing Supply Chain Systems
- Re-Distributed Manufacturing in Healthcare Network
- Causes and Impact of Foreign Disinvestment in the UK
- Unlocking the potential for future India-UK trade and development
- Organisations and Responsible Management
Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
This project is aimed at informing decision-making in the creative industries.
Other projects in this area
- Understanding workplace democracy through corporate and employee disclosure
- Artificial Intelligence in the job interview process
- England's Rural creative industries: geography and business structure
- Leading an agile workforce in the NHS
- Opening up methods of research into infrastructure
- Dynamic Conditions for Project Success.
- Science and Innovation Policy
Foresight for new collaborative platforms to support LMIC science systems
This project explores how new forms of collaboration between international funding agencies and science systems in low- and middle-income countries can generate the transformative knowledge required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Other projects in this area
- Contested connections: critically examining the emerging controversy over 5G
- Trans-Reg: Transformative regulation of chemical pesticide-based agricultural systems
- Transformative Lab programme by the TIPC
- Covid-19 rapid knowledge exchange hub on diagnostic testing systems
- Screening for cancer in the post-genomic era
- Serendipity in Research and Innovation
- TransPark – business models for parking and energy
- Transformative Innovation the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development
- European Research Infrastructure for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Studies
- the CHNUK project
- Post-Automation
- Food chemical safety.
- Deep Transitions: Learning from History to Imagine the Future
- Societal and Economic Resilience
EUROSHIP
This project looks at closing gaps in social citizenship and new tools to foster social resilience in Europe.
Other projects in this area
Pathways to inclusive labour markets
Economic Choices and Cognitive Diversity
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS)
Fields of Glass: Labour, Techno-Science and Bio-politics in Agrarian Systems
- Sustainability and Development
STRINGS
This project aims to map development pathways for science, technology and innovation that best address the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Other projects in this area
- Conflict and fragile ecosystems: building capacity to address biodiversity loss in Northwest Syria
- Zero Waste Manufacturing
- Women back to the land
- Environmental impacts of digital services for health and wellbeing in the home
- Spatial educational inequalities in Peru
- Transformative Knowledge Network
- Analysing Sustainable Development Goals in the Peruvian Amazon
- Inclusive Green Infrastructures for Urban Well-Being
- Living Together project: Hansalim as a model for solidarity pathways towards sustainable food systems
- Poverty, vulnerability and crime: What does Covid-19 mean for Nigerian street vendors?
- Pathways of crop and livestock intensification for Green Revolution in Africa
- Modern Energy Cooking Services programme.
- LANDMARC: Land-use based Mitigation for Resilient Climate pathways
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