Our publications

Brett Cherry

How to Move From Unjust to Just Transitions for Renewable Energy Futures? Place-Making and ‘Unmaking’ in the ‘Left Behind’ Coastal Town of Blyth, Northumberland, UK

Geo Geography and Environment
June 2026

Rebecca Willis

What your local council can actually do to tackle the climate crisis

The Conversation
May 2026

Lucie Middlemiss Matthew Paterson Samanthi Theminimulle

Joined-up sustainability transformations in the UK: Characterising action in the North of England and beyond

The JUST Centre
March 2026

Stefan Bouzarovski

The quiet labour of energy (in)justice struggles

Dialogues in Human Geography
December 2025

Julie McLaren

For a greener future, we need more than new skills and social mobility - we need fairness

Business Green
November 2025

Stefan Bouzarovski

The Infrastructural Labor of Residential Energy Intermediation: Enacting Solidarity in Times of Crisis

Professional Geographer
November 2025

Tania Carregha Nameerah Hameed Julie McLaren Rachael Orr

People powering the green transition

The Young Foundation
August 2025

Lucie Middlemiss Caroline Snell

Just Climate Futures: Integrating Social Inclusion Into The Net Zero Transition

Bristol University Press
August 2025

Stefan Bouzarovski Karla G. Cedano-Villavicencio Laurence L. Delina Mari Martiskainen Tony G. Reames Neil Simcock

Reframing how we talk about 'energy poverty'

Nature Energy
August 2025

Stefan Bouzarovski Lilia Karpinska Katherine Sugar Sławomir Śmiech

Networked, fragmented, unequal: The emergent landscape of home energy advice provision in England

Applied Geography
August 2025

Alexander Nurse

A Manifesto for Liverpool City Region

Heseltine Institute
March 2024

Emily Morrison

A five-point plan for a green and fair future

The Young Foundation blog
February 2024

Emily Morrison Samanthi Theminimulle Tania Carregha

Our journey to net zero: Understanding household and community participation in the UK’s transition to a greener future

The Young Foundation
February 2024

Co-producing research: 6 key considerations

The Manchester Urban Institute
January 2024

Sherilyn MacGregor Matthew Paterson Helen Holmes

Why we need connected strategies for net zero and levelling up

Academy of Social Sciences, comment and analysis
2024

Local Authority Consumption Accounts

Toolkit website
2024

Carolyn Snell Lucie Middlemiss

The Climate Challenge: Making Net Zero Socially Inclusive

Social Policy Association
November 2023

Joshua Emden

More than money: moving towards a relational approach to retrofitting

IPPR blog
September 2023

Jacob Ainscough

We asked the British public what they really think about net zero – here’s what we found

The Conversation
August 2023

Alexander Nurse Alessia Calafiore Richard Dunning

15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory

The Conversation
February 2023

Lucie Middlemiss Diana Ivanova

Looking at the data differently to highlight those left in the cold

Shorthand
2023

Jacob Ainscough

‘Levelling up’ the UK is a golden opportunity for climate action – but the government is failing

The Conversation
February 2022

Helen Holmes

New spaces, ordinary practices: circulating and sharing in diverse economies of provisioning

Geoforum
January 2018