GSoS building, 51 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Thursday 31 July 2025
Funding of almost £800,000 has been awarded to 13 sustainability research projects in the inaugural funding round of the Global Sustainability Research Fund by the Global School of Sustainability at LSE (GSoS).
The Global Sustainability Research Fund is LSE’s flagship research fund for ambitious, creative, and impactful sustainability research activities. It harnesses LSE’s inclusive and collaborative interdisciplinary approach by drawing from faculty’s expertise across the social sciences.
The 13 selected projects are:
- Analyzing culture war climate politics - Tim Forsyth, International Development
- AI-Driven Risk Mapping for Safer Cycling in London - Jenevieve Treadwell, School of Public Policy
- Climate Security and Informal Settlements: Evidence from Sierra Leone - Gharad Bryan, STICERD
- The Economics of Environmental Inequality - Francisco Ferreira and Clare Balboni, International Inequalities Institute
- Delegated Sustainable Investing - Amil Dasgupta, Financial Markets Group
- Weathering the Waste: Climate Adaptation and Food Loss Among Urban Street Vendors - Swati Dhingra, Centre for Economic Performance
- Deliberating Food Consumption Choices: A Field Experiment - Marion Dumas, Grantham Research Institute
- Minimizing Species Extinction Risk (MSER) - Frank Venmans, Grantham Research Institute
- Translating nature into risk: The role of financial disclosure frameworks in shaping nature-related risks - Tommaso Palermo, Accounting
- Plug Adoption and Use for Smarter Energy (PAUSE) Demand - Shefali Khanna, Geography & Environment
- Creating sustainable finance and business - Xi Li, Accounting
- Seeing is Believing: From Screens to Reefs – How VR Bridges Valuation Gaps - Thomas Smith, Geography & Environment
- Paying Nature: Mobilising financial resources from private sector for biodiversity - Giles Atkinson and Camila Cristancho-Duarte, Grantham Research Institute
Professor Susana Mourato, LSE Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research, said: “I’m thrilled to congratulate the first recipients of the Global Sustainability Research Fund. These outstanding projects mark a milestone for LSE and our new Global School of Sustainability—bringing bold ideas to life as we lead efforts toward a more resilient, prosperous, and sustainable world.”
GSoS is the interdisciplinary centre for sustainability impact at LSE. Working in partnerships across the LSE community and beyond, it advances pioneering sustainability research, world-leading educational opportunities and global policy engagement. Through LSE’s interdisciplinary excellence across the social sciences, GSoS’s global networks collaborate to target the systemic challenges to sustainability embedded in the world’s economies, politics and societies.