Management Board
The role of the Sustainable Futures Management Board is to provide leadership to the University’s multidisciplinary Sustainable Futures activity, maintaining an overview of the University’s current capabilities in the broad fields encompassed by Sustainable Futures and identifying actual and potential areas of excellence.
Key objectives
The Sustainable Futures Management Board is responsible for:
- Raising the profile of Sustainable Futures within the wider University community, bringing researchers from different disciplines together into multidisciplinary communities;
- Identifying opportunities to build critical mass, maintaining an overview of the current external landscape in terms of research and funding opportunities;
- Building the profile of Sustainable Futures, encouraging and strengthening links with external stakeholders;
- Encouraging the community to increase the impact of the University’s Sustainable Futures work on the world of practice; including in the conduct of research and broader alignment with our Social Responsibility Strategic objectives to promote Sustainability in the University’s institutional organisational practices
- Encouraging curriculum development which draws on the University’s research strengths in this area
Membership
The Board is chaired by Professor Nigel Hooper, Associate Vice-President for Research and is composed of the Sustainable Futures Director & Deputy Director, the Faculty Vice Deans for Research, the leadership of key UoM Institutes, Sustainable Futures Challenge Leads, the Head of Environmental Sustainability, and the Sustainable Futures Strategy & Engagement Manager.
Professor Nigel Hooper
Associate Vice-President for Research
Professor Mike Shaver
Academic Director, Sustainable Futures, Director of Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub, Henry Royce Institute
Dr Helen Holmes
Deputy Director Sustainable Futures
Professor Andy Trafford
Vice-Dean for Research & Innovation - Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health
Professor James Evans
Associate Vice-Dean for Research - Faculty of Humanities
Professor Richard Curry
Vice-Dean for Research & Innovation - Faculty of Science & Engineering
Professor David Knowles
CEO – Henry Royce Institute
Professor Alice Larkin
Energy Beacon Lead
Professor Karen Lucas
Manchester Urban Institute Director
Professor Carly McLachlan
Director of Tyndall Manchester
Professor Mat Paterson
Director of Sustainable Consumption Institute
Dr Tim Foster
Director of Manchester Environmental Research Institute (MERI)
Professor Neil Bourne
Director – Thomas Ashton Institute
Julia Durkan
Head of Environmental Sustainability
Dr Johan Oldekop
Reader in Environment & Development – GDI
Professor Jennifer O'Brien
Academic Lead for Sustainability, Teaching and Learning & Challenge Lead for Skills
Dr Andrew Welfle
Challenge Lead for Net-Zero
Dr Alejandro Gallego Schmid
Challenge Lead for Resources
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