Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures

Researchers from the Grantham Centre shed light on the role seed size and unconscious bias on the start of farming.  Our Associate Director Colin Osborne and scientists from the University of Sheffield, Oxford and Toulouse publish on the mysteries of the first farmers. Their research suggests that unconscious bias towards […]

Beware false sustainability solutions, warns Professor Peter Horton, we need for a rigorous system to check green claims.  We live […]

In 2017, Grantham Scholars and other University of Sheffield researchers joined the March For Science in London. More than 12,000 […]

In an agenda-setting paper in the journal Food Security Grantham Centre experts and University of Sheffield researchers present their vision for […]

Two Grantham Centre supervisors awarded prestigious Biochemical Society medals. Dr Matt Johnson and Professor Neil Hunter FRS are both photosynthesis […]

Grantham Scholars teach sustainability to schoolchildren in Zimbabwe. Our Tinashe Mawodza and Patience Muchada led a session for 40 science […]

Grantham Scholar Sally Faulkner‘s research took her to Peru, just as the country suffered the worst floods in recent memory. […]

Philip Powell is funded by the Grantham Centre’s GO Fund to research disgust, diets and sustainability. Here he describes the […]

Grantham Scholar Magdalena Matysek presents research at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon. Global […]

Peter Horton has calculated the environmental cost of bread in a paper for Nature Plants and has found that fertiliser […]