Explore the Policy Briefs
Evidence-informed briefings on circular economy policy, systems change, resource efficiency, and implementation.
Browse the full Beyond Waste series, designed to help policymakers, educators, local authorities, researchers, and business leaders access focused insights and practical recommendations on the transition to a circular economy.
Why Recycling is Not Enough
A challenge to the UK's recycling-led approach, arguing for a shift from waste management to circular system design.
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Closing the Loop on EV Batteries
Explores how battery reuse, repurposing, and recycling can become a strategic pillar of the UK's circular transition.
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Circular Skills for a Net Zero Workforce
Examines how education and training systems can equip learners with the competencies needed for a circular future.
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Circular SMEs and Supply Chain Transformation
Focuses on the barriers and opportunities for smaller businesses to adopt circular practices and strengthen supply chain resilience.
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Rethinking Value
Makes the case for moving beyond recycling rates toward better measures of reuse, longevity, and resource productivity.
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Financing Circular Innovation
Investigates how circular business models can be better supported through investment reform and smarter financial frameworks.
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Circular Cities and Local Systems Leadership
Shows how local leadership, procurement, and infrastructure can drive practical circular economy implementation at place level.
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Polar Pollution
A peer-reviewed study investigating the distribution, accumulation, and socioeconomic effects of plastic pollution in Antarctica, and the policies needed to protect polar marine ecosystems.
An Introduction to this Special Issue
A guest editorial introducing a special issue of the Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, comprising 15 articles sharing insights into measures that enhance student-centred success through staff-student collaboration and partnership.
Blended Learning: Impacts on the Student Experience
Explores the tools and techniques deployed across UK educational institutions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on the impact of blended learning on student satisfaction, digital poverty, staff-student partnership, and the future of pedagogical practice.
Elective Pathways: Students as Partners in a Co-Designed Curriculum
A student-staff policy group was co-founded to explore the optionality of interdisciplinary themes through Elective Pathways. Students were central to the co-design process, with membership on the working group, over 150 students completing a survey, and 10 students attending focus groups to shape curriculum development.
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