On 4 November 2025, experts held a panel discussion on green jobs and skills as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, debating the urgent need to redefine ‘green jobs’ and coordinate local efforts to build a truly inclusive green workforce.
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SCI’s 2025 Conference Round-Up: Turbulence, Crisis & Disruption in Sustainability Research
The 2025 conference season is coming to a close. Here’s a look back at where SCI members have been sharing their research and insights this year. Text by Raka Mukherjee Throughout this year’s conference season, SCI researchers took their work to international forums...
What We Learned from The Making Room Fair
Tetyana Solovey discusses how the repair and remaking of clothing can be fun, useful, and surprisingly easy to learn.
Why the World Needs a Fossil Fuel Treaty: Building a Fast and Fair Transition
Yusra Suedi and Clare Cummings explore the Fossil Fuel Treaty as a potential roadmap toward a fast and fair energy transition.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Reflections on the role of Optimism and Pessimism in taking action on Sustainability
Sam Toscano, Sandra Barragan, Tetyana Solovey and Usman Aziz on emotion, trust and the concept of ‘anti-governance’ in discussions about sustainable futures.
Not Quite a Guide: Reflecting on my Research Visit to SCI
Jacob Moody (Maastricht University) on social capital in academia and challenges of interdisciplinary work
PGR Mini-Symposium of the Plant-Human Research Network: Ecological Grief, Multispecies Kinship, and the Politics of Vegetal Life
Scott Backrath and Teodora Noszkay discussing Plant-human Research network and creative, critical, and relational approaches to understanding the natural world.
Legal Frontlines in the Climate Crisis: Insights from the University of Manchester’s Environmental Activism Workshop
Yusra Suedi and Clare Cummings reflect on the potential – and the limits – of the law as a tool for climate justice in the face of escalating protest restrictions and environmental threats.
Rethinking Care: Sociological Perspectives from the Classroom
Students from the UoM’s new MA “Science, Sustainability and Society” explore today’s sustainability issues.
“We want to build capacity for citizens to research and propose what works best for them and to advocate on their own behalf”: JUST Centre Interview
Sherilyn MacGregor, Mat Paterson, and Helen Holmes on the ‘Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations’ approach
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