Research centres and projects
We have several research centres attached to the Business School. Each one focuses on a crucial aspect of today's world. We're also successful in attracting funding for a variety of research projects.
Research centres
Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions
Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability
Research programmes
Sussex Energy Group
Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium
UK Trade Policy Observatory
Sussex Sustainability Research Programme
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.
Other projects in this area
- SIGMA: Sustainability, inclusiveness and governance of mini-grids in Africa
- Net Zero Neighbourhoods
- 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.
- International Trade and Business
RESPECT
This project is about realising Europe’s soft power in external cooperation and trade.
Other projects in this area
- Brexit Uncertainty and the Northern Ireland Protocol
- 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.
- 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
- Science and Innovation Policy
Deep Transitions
Deep Transitions theory and this research project seeks to make sense of what has happened in the past to understand trends towards the Second Deep Transition, the Sustainability Revolution.
Other projects in this area
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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