SSRP project spotlight 2024/2025

Explore our most recently funded projects from the 2024/2025 academic year below

A misty valley in Peru

SSRP Round 9 funding

SSRP is delighted to be supporting four new cutting-edge research projects, set to receive funding for the 2024/2025 academic year. These projects, selected as part of SSRP’s 9th seed-funding call ‘Scaling up Sustainability Research’, will drive impactful sustainability research forward, focusing on diverse areas such as territorial and indigenous rights, ecosystem protection, innovative sustainable eduction for young people, combining public health and biodiversity in Oceania, and trade and deforestation regulations.

While the programme is very pleased to be welcoming the next generation of sustainability researchers from across campus, it is also committed to supporting ongoing SSRP streams of work - building on the community’s strengths and long-standing partnerships and following its recognition as a University of Sussex Centre of Excellence.

With ongoing support from SSRP and a modest pot of funding, these initiatives, led by interdsciplinary research teams, promise to advance the vision of SSRP and the University in creating a more sustainable world, both at home and further afield:

Scaling Ecoforensic: practical implementation of 'Rights of Nature' for fair and sustainable futures - Professor Mika Peck (Life Sciences), Dr Joanna Smallwood (Law, Politics and Sociology), Dr Perpetua Kirby (Education and Social Work), Dr Rebecca Webb (Education and Social Work)
Analysing systems architecture and orchestration for effective implementation, compliance and enforcement of trade and deforestation regulations and SDG outcomes - Dr Anthony Alexander (Business School), Dr Emanuela Orlando (Law, Politics and Sociology)
Global Imaginaries: connecting young people through improvised collaborative storytelling for sustainable futures - Dr Perpetua Kirby (Education and Social Work), Dr Sam Ladkin (Media, Arts and Humanities), Professor Kate Howland (Engineering and Informatics), Dr Rebecca Webb (Education and Social Work), Dr Jo Walton (Media, Arts and Humanities)
Integrating action and policy on health, biodiversity, and climate in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Bougainville, and across Melanesia - Professor Alan Stewart (Life Sciences), Jo Middleton (Life Sciences, BSMS), Richard Hazell (Life Sciences), Jessica Stockdale (Life Sciences, Media, Arts and Humanities)