Sustainability research
Our sustainability group comprises a multidisciplinary, international group of researchers and educators. We are actively engaged with the understanding of macro, meso and micro-level strategies, behaviours and practices in bringing about more sustainable businesses, societies and living environments.
We investigate sustainability from multiple perspectives and domains including green finance, green innovation and green supply chains. Our goal is to advance scholarship and contribute to helping businesses deliver positive social and environmental change.
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Our academic staff: Ioanna Boulouta, Benedetta Crisafulli, Muthu De Silva, Emmanuel Mamatzakis, Pamela Yeow, Ellen Pei-yi Yu.
RESEARCH impacts
Our members work with external partners such as councils and governments, cross-institution networks, the OECD, the MMF, and event boards, as well as independently publishing the outcome of their work, to deliver real-world impacts.
Topics include recycling and single use plastic, sewage, farming, solar power, consumer psychology, environmental policy and finance, social innovations and climate change.
RESEARCH CENTRES AND affiliations
Our members contribute to Birkbeck's research centres, and to external bodies such as the Impact and Sustainable Finance Consortium, the OECD, the consultative working group of the Risk Standing Committee at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), and UN Principles of Responsible Management (PRME). Topics of engagement include skills required for green innovation, and sustainable finance disclosure legislation (i.e. SFDR and CSRD)
Our members also contribute heavily to publications such as the Journal of Sustainability Research, 'Sustainable Food' for MDPI Sustainability Journal and Sustainability, and the Annual Review of Social Partnership.
