Sustainable Practices Research Group
Research team
Research team
Overview
Description
1 June 2010 - 31 May 2013
ISSTI researcher Dr Sarah Parry leads the 'Engagement, Interaction and Influence' work-package for the Sustainable Practices Research Group (SPRG), funded by ESRC, DEFRA and the Scottish Government.
The SPRG aims to develop fresh understandings about how social practices change and how to encourage more sustainable behaviours. Particular emphasis will be placed on consumption - on the grounds that changing the consumption practices of billions of individuals poses the greatest challenge to the achievement of sustainability. The SPRG takes its cue from social theories that emphasize the importance of collective understandings and everyday practices and on the material and social circumstances that constrain behaviour in order to find levers for intervention.
Contact: Sarah Parry