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Grantham Scholar comment, interviews and blogs

Our sustainability researchers – the Grantham Scholars – are an exceptional group of people. They work across disciplines and throughout the world. They are dedicated to the environment and act as expert activists. Together with the Grantham Centre team, they work hard to create a sustainable future.

This page is your chance to hear directly from them. In interviews, blogs and articles, here the Grantham Scholars share their expertise and enthusiasm with the world.

Our researchers are an amazing lot. Keep on reading to find interviews with those pictured above. From top left: Gloria Mensah, George Asiamah, Joe Llanos; from bottom left: Nicole Kennard, Rukayya Ibrahim Muazu and Ling Min Tan.

If you want to find out more about their projects, you can also check out our Grantham Scholar project pages.

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Sheffield Students’ Union goes zero waste

Grantham Scholar Gloria Mensah has been working with Sheffield Students’ Union to help them go zero waste. Zero waste and the Students’ Union After months of being engrossed in the politics of Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage technologies, I wanted to do a placement at Sheffield Students’ Union (SU) and […]

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Brexit free trade

Brexit, consumption and sustainability by Colin Osborne

Is Brexit our chance to look at consumption and sustainability? Here our associate director Prof Colin Osborne argues that we […]

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The Politics of Water 2: Communities and extension workers by Naomi Oates

Grantham Scholar Naomi Oates is researching rural water projects. She’s interested in how policies, politics and water are entangled in […]

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Mira at a protest

Why is activism our moral duty by Mira Lieberman

We funded Grantham Scholar Mira Lieberman to go to the annual London Animal Rights March, here she explains why activism is […]

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Brexit climate change and a summer to remember

Football, Brexit and a heat-wave: a summer to remember by Peter Horton

Our Chief Research Advisor, Peter Horton, reflects on summer 2018 – and how Brexit distracts from catastrophic climate change. The […]

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Blog: The next generation of environmental thinkers by Monica Ortiz

Grantham Scholar Dr Monica Ortiz has been a shining example of how academics can do outreach. In her last blog […]

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Freshly opened cempedak and its yellow fleshy fruits

Cempedak, A Funky Tropical Fruit You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

What is cempedak? And what does cempedak taste like?

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Talking of carbon capture and storage: my experience at the UKCCSRC conference

Grantham Scholar Gloria Mensah researches how carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology interacts with politics. Here she reports back from […]

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Is there gender equality social research? Sally, pictured here during fieldwork in a mining town in Peru, doesn't think there is.

Danger in the market place: gender equality in social research by Sally Faulkner

Is there gender equality in social research? Can there be if men and women cannot conduct the same fieldwork? Grantham […]

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Solid Liberal and GOP Congressman being civil to one another

Unlikely trio: an archaeologist, a Republican Congressman & renewable energy

In the UK, town halls are associated with jumble sales or the local council. But in the US they have […]

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