It is with deep regret and sadness that we share the news of the death of Professor Geoff Oldham, who passed away on Sunday 1 October 2017 at the age…
Remembering Geoff Oldham
Emancipatory Rural Politics: call for papers at AAG2018
Emancipatory Rural Politics: contextualising authoritarian populism and resisting, mobilizing and creating alternatives Call for papers, Association of American Geographers 2018 annual meeting, 10-14 April, New Orleans Organizers: Amber Huff (Institute of…
Call for papers: Platform economy and new collaborative forms of production
The journal Liinc em Revista is inviting submission of articles, subject to double-blind evaluation, for publication in Vol. 14, n. 1 (May 2018). Unpublished articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English…
STEPS presents research at Resilience and Transformations conferences
The STEPS Centre and our partners in the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium will present new and emerging research at two major international conferences in August and September 2017. We…
A Food Brexit: Time to get real
The UK is unprepared for the most complex ever change to its food system, which will be required before Brexit, according to a new briefing paper published by SPRU, titled…
ACTS ranked among the world’s top think tanks on climate change in 2016
The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) has been ranked among the top 3 climate change think tanks globally in 2016, in an assessment published by the International Centre for…
STEPS Learning: new e-learning website on Pathways to Sustainability
The ESRC STEPS Centre has launched a new online learning website for self-study and use in teaching. The STEPS Learning site features: An online course on Pathways to Sustainability, with…
Prof Melissa Leach, STEPS co-founder, honoured with a CBE
Melissa Leach has been appointed as a CBE for services to Social Science, in the Queen’s Birthday 2017 Honours List. This major honour is conferred by the Queen and on…
4th BICAS Conference: call for abstracts on extractivism & rural social dynamics in the BRICS
Following the launch of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), a call for papers has been issued for an international conference in Moscow in October. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS for the…
GM mustard in India: are important questions not being asked?
The Indian researcher Poonam Pandey has written an opinion piece for the Hindustan Times about the latest controversy over GM mustard in India. DMH 11 (Dhara Mustard Hybrid) was recently…