Resolve Interdisciplinary Seminars
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Previous seminars 
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| 17 June 2010 | Annie Austin and David Fell, Brook Lyndhurst | Influential individuals and the diffusion of pro environmental behaviours |  |
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| 24 May 2010 | Jeanette Fitzsiomons, New Zealand’s former Green party co-leader | The Impact of Green political parties under coalition government: Lessons from New Zealand | |
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| 19 May 2010 | Stewart Barr, University of Exeter | Sustainable Lifestyles: context, practice and policy | |
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| 13 April 2010 | Julian Sutherland, Atkins | The Look and Feel of Sustainable Urban Design | |
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| 8 March 2010 | Ben Shaw, Policy Studies Institute | The Political Feasibility of Environmental Tax Reform - the work and findings of the Green Fiscal Commission | |
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| 17 February 2010 | Mary Corin, rValue Resource Development Consultancy | Can we get things in perspective, please! | |
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| 16 February 2010 | Erik Assadourian, World Watch Institute | State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability | |
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| 19 January 2010 | Simon Retallack, Institute for Public Policy Research | How an understanding of psychological motivations can help us mainstream lower-carbon behaviour | |
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| 14 December 2009 | Bastien Girod, Swiss National Council and EPA Commission | How storylines and a household-based approach can improve future (IPCC) emission scenarios | |
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| 7 December 2009 | Ruth Rettie and Kevin Burchell, Kingston University London | CHARM: Applying the Social Norm Approach to Sustainability Practices | |
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| 11 November 2009 | Judith de Groot, Bournemouth University | Values in Environmental Research | |
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| 22 September 2009 | Elpida Makriyannis, The Open University | Engaging individuals and communities: Tools to capture and share our collective intelligence |
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| 23 July 2009 | Terry Newholm, The University of Manchester | Sustainable Living: working towards attractive alternatives | |
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| 23 June 2009 | Vincent Carragher, University of Limerick, Ireland | Sustainable Change, Behaviour Change and its Drivers at the Household Level | |
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| 6 May 2009 | Dana Abi Ghanem, , University of Manchester | Solar power, homes and lifestyles: exploring the co-construction of users and photovoltaics in the domestic sector | |
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| 23 April 2009 | Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network | The World on a Plate: Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and our Changing Climate | |
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| 16 March 2009 | Linda Steg, University of Groningen, Netherlands | Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour | |
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| 13 March 2009 | Peter Victor, York University, Canada | Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster |
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| 18 February 2009 | Helen Perkins, Griffith University, Australia | The Influence of an Ecological Worldview on Consumers’ Pro-environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Choices: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Reference list | |
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| 21 January 2009 | Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education | '"I shop, therefore I am?" The interlinking of identities and consumption for young people' |
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| 11 November 2008 | Bronwyn Hayward, Visiting Researcher to the University of Surrey from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand | Growing Greens? Children's attitudes to citizenship, environment and climate change: The New Zealand experience. | |
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| 21 October 2008 | Jim Watson, University of Sussex | Micro-generation: An energy revolution? | |
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| 3 September 2008 | Diana Verde Nieto, Clownfish | Avoiding Greenwash - How to Align your Communications with Sustainable Principles and Practice | |
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| 21 July 2008 | Claudia Kuss-Tenzer, Waste Watch | Waste behaviour change – Linking theory and practice | |
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| 25 June 2008 | Julie Newton, Cardiff University | Wellbeing and the Natural Environment: The impact of green spaces on wellbeing Wellbeing and the Natural Environment: A brief overview of the evidence |
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| 19 May 2008 | Trewin Restorick, Global Action Plan | Delivering Sustainable Lifestyles | |
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| 16 April 2008 | Nora Räthzel, Umeå University, Sweden | Resolving the enigma of sustainable development | |
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| 31 March 2008 | Andrew Fearne, Kent University |
In pursuit of sustainable consumption - insights from supermarket loyalty data | |
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| 12 Feb 2008 | Tom Crompton, WWF | Do we still need environmental NGOs? | |
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| 23 Jan 2008 | Dan van der Horst, University of Birmingham | Social Enterprise and Renewable Energy | |
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| 28 Nov 2007 | Tim Kasser, Knox College, USA |
A Revolution of Values: Psychological Research on Materialism and its Alternatives | |
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| 25 Oct 2007 | Thomas Henfrey | Managing behaviour for sustainability: lessons from traditional resource use | |
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| 12 July 2007 | Rachel Muckle, Defra | An overview of Defra's SCP programme | |
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| 19 June 2007 | Jim Skea, UK ERC |
From Laboratory to Society: Research Integration at the UK Energy Research Centre | |
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| 21 Mar 2007 | Nick Carter, NPC Solar |
From the Belly of the Beast: 10 years of Greening America | |
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| 15 Feb 2007 | Tracey Bedford, Visiting Researcher, University of Surrey |
Ethical consumerism:everyday negotiations in the construction of an ethical self | |
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| 26 Sept 2006 | Laurie Michaelis, Living Witness Project |
Community, Reflexivity and Consumption | |
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