‘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 […]

At the Morningstar conference last week, Jeremy Grantham shook his audience with a narrative that went like this: The increase in surface temperatures is accelerating. Air carries more water vapor, so downpours are more likely. But so are extreme weather […]

Congratulations to Grantham Scholar Maria Wang Mei Hua! She is celebrating the publication of her first first-author paper – which you can read here. Maria is currently studying how to make tropical crops more sustainable via spatial planning and accounting for social […]

The decimation of the environment is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity. But why is so little charitable giving directed towards it? Alexandra Newlove spoke to some of the powerhouses in environmental philanthropy about why donating to other causes may […]

Grantham Supervisor Dylan Childs has co-authored a paper, ‘Using an integral projection model to assess the effect of temperature on the growth of gilthead seabream Sparus’. Dylan, a population biologist, explains the importance of the paper: We investigated how increasing […]

Springer Nature has looked across disciplines to select the scientific findings published in 2017 that they believe could have an impact on society’s most pressing problems. ‘We need radical change in how we produce and consume food’, written by Prof […]

With plastic use in the news a lot these days, you might think that all plastic is an environmental evil that must be eradicated. But Director of the Grantham Centre Professor Tony Ryan has spent his life working with plastic […]

Our Associate Director Colin Osborne (and other authors) has a new paper in the plant science journal the New Phytologist. The paper looks at how savannas respond to different ecological threats caused by human action. Colin explains the importance of this paper: […]

The University of Sheffield is proud to partner with Chevening and be part of the initiative to support the development of the world’s future decision-makers. Chevening is the UK Government’s international awards scheme aimed at developing global leaders. Funded by the Foreign and […]

Heritage festival returns to Sheffield woodland University of Sheffield Heritage Festival returns to Ecclesall Woods. On the 28th May 2018, from 10 am until 4 pm, the woodland will play host to a working interactive iron smelt, a build-your-own-kiln exercise involving […]