GSoS building, 51 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Thursday 31 July 2025
Funding of almost £800,000 has been awarded to 13 sustainability research projects in the inaugural funding round of the Global Sustainability Research Fund by the Global School of Sustainability at ½ûÂþÌìÌà (GSoS).
is ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ’s flagship research fund for ambitious, creative, and impactful sustainability research activities. It harnesses ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ’s inclusive and collaborative interdisciplinary approach by drawing from faculty’s expertise across the social sciences.
The 13 selected projects are:
- Analyzing culture war climate politics - Tim Forsyth, International Development
- AI-Driven Risk Mapping for Safer Cycling in London - Jenevieve Treadwell, School of Public Policy
- Climate Security and Informal Settlements: Evidence from Sierra Leone - Gharad Bryan, STICERD
- The Economics of Environmental Inequality - Francisco Ferreira and Clare Balboni, International Inequalities Institute
- Delegated Sustainable Investing - Amil Dasgupta, Financial Markets Group
- Weathering the Waste: Climate Adaptation and Food Loss Among Urban Street Vendors - Swati Dhingra, Centre for Economic Performance
- Deliberating Food Consumption Choices: A Field Experiment - Marion Dumas, Grantham Research Institute
- Minimizing Species Extinction Risk (MSER) - Frank Venmans, Grantham Research Institute
- Translating nature into risk: The role of financial disclosure frameworks in shaping nature-related risks - Tommaso Palermo, Accounting
- Plug Adoption and Use for Smarter Energy (PAUSE) Demand - Shefali Khanna, Geography & Environment
- Creating sustainable finance and business - Xi Li, Accounting
- Seeing is Believing: From Screens to Reefs – How VR Bridges Valuation Gaps - Thomas Smith, Geography & Environment
- Paying Nature: Mobilising financial resources from private sector for biodiversity - Giles Atkinson and Camila Cristancho-Duarte, Grantham Research Institute
Professor Susana Mourato, ½ûÂþÌìÌà Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research, said: “I’m thrilled to congratulate the first recipients of the Global Sustainability Research Fund. These outstanding projects mark a milestone for ½ûÂþÌìÌà and our new Global School of Sustainability—bringing bold ideas to life as we lead efforts toward a more resilient, prosperous, and sustainable world.”
GSoS is the interdisciplinary centre for sustainability impact at ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ. Working in partnerships across the ½ûÂþÌìÌà community and beyond, it advances pioneering sustainability research, world-leading educational opportunities and global policy engagement. Through ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ’s interdisciplinary excellence across the social sciences, GSoS’s global networks collaborate to target the systemic challenges to sustainability embedded in the world’s economies, politics and societies.