Environmental Politics
The Department of Politics and International Relations is home to one of the largest contingents of environmental politics scholars in the country, who are united by concerns about global environmental change.
The Beastly Business Project
The Beastly Business Project released a series of short films explaining their project. The films explain the core themes of their research and summarise their research findings.
Our Research
Interdisciplinary Research
Our research is interdisciplinary in nature; and many of us have backgrounds and close connections with Geography, Philosophy and Sociology. We have close ties with a range of international environmental NGOs and policy-makers, and we are strongly linked with colleagues across the University of ºù«Ӱҵ, such as those in the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, the ºù«Ӱҵ Institute for Global Sustainable Development, ºù«Ӱҵ Sustainable Food Futures and the ºù«Ӱҵ Animal Studies Research Centre.
Our expertise
Our research expertise:
- Political ecology
- climate change
- animal rights,
- environmental policy-making and governance.
- formal political institutions and organisations
- non-governmental activists
- corporate interests.
Our projects
Community Energy
Jayne Carrick
South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority (SYMCA) have committed to 'enabling community energy schemes by working closely with community groups to develop and supporting community schemes across South Yorkshire', this project aims to identify policies that the SYMCA could implement to achieve this goal.
Beastly Business
Examining the Illegal Trade in Bears, Eels and Songbirds in Europe
Rosaleen Duffy
This project seeks to understand the underlying drivers of why, and how, legal and illegal spheres in the trade in European species are linked.
Consuming sustainably and community energy
Jayne Carrick and Matthew Wood
This project explores the determinants of domestic energy use and energy saving behaviour in South Yorkshire and will account for how this has changed in response to external circumstances, including the cost of living crisis and increasing public awareness of, and concern for, climate change.
Globalisation and environmental justice in global value chains
Natalie Langford
Natalie's research focuses on the politics of sustainability in the global political economy, with a particular focus on how states, firms and civil society in the global South seek to shape norms around the global governance of labour and the environment.