Rabin Doolub doesn’t fit neatly into any one box. He’s been a teacher, a civil servant, and is now a sustainability leader in higher education. What ties his journey together is a deep commitment to making meaningful change and doing it in a way that puts people first. As Head of Environmental Sustainability at Middlesex […]
And so a fourth Access Assembly has come and gone, and a fourth Evaluation Report has been completed. Why go to all that effort to evaluate the event? To collect different types of data before and afterwards? To carefully look across that data with multiple eyes, to produce findings and come to final conclusions and […]
I gave a seminar a few weeks ago at the invitation of Prof. Tim Mays, a hydrogen engineer from the University of Bath. The audience was public and varied, with a large smattering of natural science students. Putting my slides together, I asked myself, what have I, as a social scientist interested in sustainable energy […]
Growing up in Benin City, Nigeria, Dr Irekpitan Okukpon was struck by the mounds of waste in the gutters and the casual way people discarded rubbish. That experience set her on a path that has carried her from Nigeria to South Africa and now to the United Kingdom, where she teaches and researches environmental law […]
In 2024, feedback from the ACCESS Annual Assembly was clear, there was a lack of racial and ethnic diversity among attendees, speakers, and within the project’s wider network which needed to be addressed (see also Golding et al., 2025). The ACCESS team had already acknowledged this gap but what changed following the 2024 Assembly, was […]
The School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham hosted this year’s annual British Environmental Psychology Society (BrEPS) conference. It was the 9th edition of the conference in the 11-year history of BrEPS, which is a non-subscription, inclusive network of (mostly) early career researchers with interest in human-environmental interactions. It was also the ‘last’ BrEPS […]
Walking is easy right? You just put on a pair of shoes, leave the house and walk along the pavements, woods or beaches right outside your door. We all know the importance of walking; it’s good for our blood pressure, circulation, keeping a healthy weight, muscle tone, heart, lungs etc. etc and it can give […]
As an ACCESS Knowledge Exchange Fellow, I contributed to the design, execution, and analysis of a survey and interviews on interdisciplinary working and the benefits of environmental social science, as well as supporting key project outputs like the annotated bibliography, literature review, and the Environmental Social Science kNowledge Exchange Map of Opportunities (ESS NEMO). Being […]
I live in a new town in Devon called Cranbrook. There was much derision about the location of the development, with many people concerned about it being built on a floodplain. However, that is not the case. Green spaces and country parks have been kept free of development, allowing the floodplains to do their job […]
Southampton has a long history of grassroots environmental action, from tackling air pollution to the climate crisis. This comes in part from needing to address the huge impact of its port and airport, but is mainly down to the individuals and grassroots organisations who have worked hard to raise the profile of community voices and […]