Building sustainable societies and behaviours panel

Join us for a panel discussion with Liam Beiser-McGrath, Catherine McKenna, and Ganga Shreedhar

Climate action at scale will be needed in order build sustainable societies. How can behaviour change contribute to this – moving beyond individual choices to the necessary institutional, social, and political transformations? Drawing on research across policy, psychology, economics, and philosophy, we ask what fundamental behavioural and institutional change looks like in this context, and the implications this can have for such matters as food systems, technology adoption, public trust, future-ready climate policy, and more.

Meet our speakers and chair

Liam F. Beiser-McGrath is an Associate Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy, Chair of the Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub, Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Affiliate of the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Liam is also an Editor for the journal Environmental Politics and the organiser of EPG Online, an online seminar series covering Environmental Politics and Governance .Liam’s research primarily focuses on the political economy of climate change, using experimental research designs and machine learning.

Catherine McKenna [insert bio]

Dr Ganga Shreedhar is an Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science in LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science and co-director of the MSc in Behavioural Science programme. She is an applied behavioural and experimental economist studying how to change human behaviour in ways benefit people and the planet. Her research examines how people perceive and understand complex dilemmas like mass extinction and climate change, and consumer and citizen motivations and choices. She also studies how behavioural interventions can be transformative and create sustainable habits.

Liam Delaney is the Head of Department for Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE. His career has focused at the intersection of economics, psychology, and public policy applications and he has developed a number of programmes in this area. From 2017 to 2020 he was Professor of Economics at University College Dublin, where he led the development of MSc in Behavioural Economics and Geary Institute Experimental Lab. Prior to this, he was Deputy Dean of Stirling Management School, and led the development of the Stirling Behavioural Science centre.

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The Global School of Sustainability Forum 2026 convenes international leaders, private and public sector agenda setters and policy makers, and social science researchers at the cutting edge of sustainability innovation. Where the path to global sustainability requires deep and interdisciplinary engagement across human economy, society, politics and behaviour, we are driving dialogue and framing opportunities for a hopeful and prosperous future for all.

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