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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 […]

The project, led by Jaya Gajparia and Richard Bridge, will test and explore what effective leadership development could look like within Environmental Social Science, creating space for new ideas, approaches, and practices to emerge through collaboration and reflection.  ​ The new project aims to: ​Apply principles of collaborative leadership to real-world challenges through self-paced engagement.  […]

This year I was successful in being promoted to Professor of Environmental Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. I have been asked to pen a few words to chart my journey to this point, so read on if you want to learn more – including how I first met ACCESS’s illustrious co-directors. My journey to […]

Place-Sensitive Just Transitions Najma Mohamed (United Nations Environment Program – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)) delivered the keynote, followed by presentations from: Greg Marsden (Place Theme Lead, Energy Demand Research Centre & University of Leeds) Huei-Ling Lai (National Sun Yat-Sen University Taiwan) Sherilyn MacGregor (JUST (Joined-up Sustainability Transformations) Centre, University of Manchester) This session and Q&A […]