Research

Grantham Scholar Maria del Carmen Redondo Bermudez researches how green barriers can reduce air pollution. Her PhD project is focused on the use of plants as ‘living walls’ around playgrounds to improve air quality for children.  Maria works out of the Department of Landscape Architecture, she also has supervisors from […]

A new paper by Peter Horton and Ben Horton vindicates both Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion’s calls to listen to […]

Interview with our director Rachael Rothman about our special plastics project. The interview in The Star describes how our £1m […]

Grantham Scholar Ling Min Tan is first author of a new paper about urban metabolism. The paper is An ecological-thermodynamic […]

A new Grantham Centre project aims to drastically reduce single-use plastic in The University of Sheffield cafes. Our Cow Molly […]

Congratulations to Grantham Scholar Emanga Alobwede for her paper on algal species as soil improvers. Published in 2019, this is […]

Our £1 million UKRI funded Plastics: Redefining Single-Use got off to a flying start. Our 2 day stakeholder event allowed […]

Grantham Scholar Suma Mani explains why a paper on the evolution of different types of photosynthesis could help feed the […]

Grantham Scholar Naomi Oates researches rural water projects, and this is her 3rd blog about her fieldwork in Malawi. Here […]

Aquaponics using PU foam could be a sustainable way to feed the world, argues Dr Anastasia Kottara. Here she explains […]