Advancing transformations to more sustainable and equitable futures. Read more.
Supporting innovative, social-science-led research on transformations to sustainability.
Sharing articles, newsletters, videos and other resources on social transformations.
Fostering knowledge exchange and building research skills around the world.
We aim to create a ‘Transformations Knowledge Base’ around social transformation that can inform the development of solutions to sustainability challenges for the long term.
The Transformations community brings together a growing network of researchers and practitioners who work towards social transformations in sustainability contexts.
Programme outputs include workshop documentation, webinars and written syntheses of knowledge.
The programme funded 38 seed projects and three Transformative Knowledge Networks. Read more.
Our April 2018 newsletter includes numerous journal articles, books, blogs, book chapters, videos and more from the T2S community. Many of these are available open access. A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: resistances, movements and alternatives Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Iokiñe Rodriguez, Ashish Kothari, Ethemcam Turham (2018), Sustainability Science This paper presents key results and […]
Whether we like it or not, transformation is inevitable. Transformation will either occur through deliberate attempts to shift societal trajectories towards a more sustainable way of living or – if these attempts are not successful – as the impacts of climate and other global changes continue to grow. While we can try to hide under […]
Ahead of a major scientific conference on the future of research on cities and climate change, we sat down with ISSC World Social Science Fellow Aliyu Barau to find out more about the knowledge gaps on transforming towards lower-carbon, more resilient cities. The CitiesIPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference aims to stimulate novel research […]