Circularity

Transitioning from our current take-make-waste system towards a truly circular one requires complex transformations in provisioning systems serving the everyday practices of citizen-consumers. Our research connects everyday actionsto wider systemstransformations, contributing to the societal shift from linear to circular production-consumption systems.

We explore circular transformation at the scales of situated practices and interconnected production – consumption systems to study the socio-material and governance dynamics that facilitate or constrain change.

We contribute to different fields of circularity research at different scales of analysis:

1. Circular change at the scale of situated consumption and production practices, from sharing and repairing in everyday urban life, to hospitals, workplaces, and neighbourhoods.
2. Governance research exploring barriers and enablers to circular systems change, from sanitation to agriculture, and ocean plastics to plastic packaging.
3. Nexus perspectives that look at how circular food, nutrients, water, and chemicals interact. We achieve this through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary co-creative research approaches that bridge science and society and seek to stimulate real change.