The Grantham Centre is dedicated to empowering a new generation of expert activists – so we’re funding Grantham Scholar Mira Lieberman to go to the annual London Animal Rights March. Mira is a volunteer and activist and writes here about how […]

Chief Research Advisor for the Grantham Centre, Prof Peter Horton FRS, reflects on the summer of 2018 – and how Brexit is distracting the UK government from catastrophic climate change The summer 2018 will be remembered for three things. First, […]

Grantham Supervisor Dr Vanessa Speight works in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, where she researches water quality transformations in drinking water distribution systems. She is also Managing Director of TWENTY65, an EPSRC-funded consortium with 6 universities and more than 70 […]

The journey from evidence to policy is inevitably complex and frequently becomes divisive as arguments rage about the validity and worth of the evidence presented. This is especially true in the “post-truth” era, where the opinions of experts are viewed […]

Grantham Supervisor Dr Warren Pearce works at iHuman (Institute for the Study of the Human) at the University of Sheffield, where he researches the intersection of science, policy and publics. One of his areas of expertise is climate change communication and […]

Grantham Supervisor Professor Lorraine Maltby is one of the lead authors of a new paper which identifies important questions that researchers must address in order to help protect our planet from chemicals International study has identified the most important questions that […]

The Women@TUoS Network is a member-led initiative, run by women for women at the University of Sheffield. All women staff members are welcome to join the network to hear about recent developments and attend our events and activities. There is something for […]

Grantham Supervisor Diana Maynard recently co-authored a paper published in the Journal of Technological Forecasting & Social Change exploring the different opinions of people around the world about societal issues such as the environment, housing and life satisfaction. The work […]

A new study has revealed sensitive regions of the world are still at risk from the dangerous and potentially irreversible effects of climate change; even if we meet the target of not increasing global temperature above 1.5°C over the next […]

‘Scientists are pretty chicken, they like to protect the dignity of science, they don’t want to be caught out exaggerating so they underestimate.’ Jeremy Grantham doesn’t hold back during his address at the 2018 Morningstar Investment Conference. See the full video […]