Knowledge platform: Transformative Sustainable Futures
Investigating the grand challenges facing organisations and society, from climate change and accelerated material use to inequality and individualisation.
Research summary
About our research
Our research helps understand how societies can work towards transformative sustainable futures. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we examine a wide range of topics, including:
- alternative and diverse economies
- circular economy, circular society and post-growth futures
- equality, diversity and inclusion in organisations
- nurturing transformative communities in places
- partnerships and collaborations for sustainability
- responsible and sustainable innovation
- socioecological justice
- sustainability education and pedagogies
Our funding
We’ve secured funding to support research on transformative sustainable futures. Our funders include:
- British Academy
- Leverhulme Trust
- Economic and Social Research Council
- European Union
- Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Selected projects
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Selected publications
- Vandeventer, J. S., Lloveras, J., and Warnaby, G. (2024). Seeking Organizational Geographies: A multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing. Organization Studies.
- Abed, A. (2024) ‘The Paradox of R&D Productivity and Firm Growth: Empirical Evidence from publicly listed firms in the United Kingdom.’ European Management Review.
- Wilson, A., Wadham, H. (2023) ‘(Tiny) spaces of hope: reclaiming, maintaining, and reframing housing in the tiny house movement.’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
- Wadham, H., Hart, C., Hashmi, A., Kettleborough, H.M., Marron, R., Randles, S., Skritsovali, K., Tucker, M. (2023) ‘Sustainability education beyond the classroom: how the “exploding university” nurtures collective intelligence across local and global communities.’ In: Meletiadou, E. (ed.) Handbook of Research on Implications of Sustainable Development in Higher Education.
- Dzhengiz, T. and K. Hockerts (2022). Dogmatic, instrumental and paradoxical frames: A pragmatic research framework for studying organizational sustainability. International Journal of Management Reviews.
- Lever, J., Sonnino, R. (2022) Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies. Regional Studies.
- Seymour, K. (2022) Circling the divide: gendered invisibility, precarity and professional service work in a UK Business School. Gender, Work and Organization.
- Dewick, P., Bengtsson, M., Cohen, M.J., Sarkis, J., Schröder, P. (2020) ‘Circular economy finance: Clear winner or risky proposition?.’ Journal of Industrial Ecology.
- Gauthier O., Leglise L. (2019). Waiting for critical moments: beyond Food Coop (2019), M@n@gement.
Our research team
Our researchers have interdisciplinary backgrounds, with strengths in areas such as:
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circular economy
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management pedagogy
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management studies
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organisation studies
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social theory
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sustainability
Contact
Contact us
You can contact individual members of the team through their staff profiles.
If you have questions about the Transformative Sustainable Futures knowledge platform, you can contact research lead Dr James Scott Vandeventer.