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As an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, Patrick will share his energy research findings, taking a place-based approach to understanding social dimensions of low carbon energy transitions, specifically the siting of controversial large-scale infrastructures such as grid powerlines, drawing on the concept of spatial imaginaries. Secondly, he will talk about the research/policy agenda, sharing insights about […]

Last month, ACCESS supported the Governing Sustainable Futures project alongside The British Academy and The Green Futures Network in organising a conference that brought together decision makers, community organisations, academics and many others to explore the challenge of ‘How Can we Disagree Better over Sustainable Futures’. This write-up from Governing Sustainable Futures lead Rebecca Sandover (University of […]

Writing can be a gloriously fun, creative and joyful activity. It can also be challenging, frustrating and daunting.   Like many other professional writers, academics can struggle to find the time for regular engagement with the writing process. And it is a process.   Writing a journal article, stakeholder report, policy summary (or blog for your project […]

Birgitta’s election recognises the work that she is doing to increase the visibility, use and impact of social science to tackle our most urgent environmental problems. The Academy’s Fellowship comprises 1,700 leading social scientists from academia, the public, private and third sectors.  Academy Fellows are elected for excellence in their fields and for their substantial contributions to […]

Last year, I didn’t just feel tired – I felt burnt out. There’s a version of the postdoc journey that looks neat on paper, you do a PhD, stay in the same lab, build on familiar questions with familiar people. That hasn’t been my story. My path has been more zigzag than ladder, moving across […]

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 […]

Anita and Rory both join ACCESS as Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellows. Anita Lateano’s PhD research combines ethnographic and arts-based methodologies to explore how coral reef conservation practices in Bunaken National Park, Indonesia, are enacted across communities, governments, NGOs and the reef itself. She will be supporting the Environmental Social Science in Interdisciplinary Working project, led […]

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 […]

ACCESS Co-Investigator, Professor Steve Hinchliffe (University of Exeter) has recently been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant for the BIOSSCI (Biosocial Security: Social Science Transformations of Biosecurity) project. BIOSSCI will work with farmers and policymakers in Bangladesh, South Africa and the UK to revolutionise biosecurity (the management of biological threats to humans, animals and […]