Institute for Sustainability research
With a proud history of pioneering interdisciplinary research and impact in the field of sustainability, the Institute will bring together Surrey's research strengths in diverse but interconnected areas combining technological solutions with understandings of wider social contexts.
Living lab
Surrey’s Living Lab coordinates numerous projects based on sustainability, urban living and life-long health. Addressing real-world issues, these Living Lab projects use the surrounding area as a test-bed and engage the local community.
Highlighted projects
Untangle inter-links between quorum sensing, c-di-GMP and EPS production for mixed-culture biofilm growth
This project aims to investigate inter-links of interspecies-level (QS) and intercellular-level (c-di-GMP) regulation and EPS production in anammox-heterotroph biofilms, using real-time gene sequencing analysis to identify commensal species.
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Funding amount: £19,925
Metrology to establish an SI traceable climate observing system (MetEOC-4)
Combining ground, atmosphere and space-based measurements to better understand the drivers of climate change.
Start date: January 2020
End date: December 2023
Funding amount: €2,299,979.04
A software framework for optimal decarbonisation planning for ASEAN countries
Funded by the British Council’s COP26 Trilateral Research Initiative, we bring academic, industrial and government agencies together to develop a software framework for optimal decarbonisation planning for ASEAN.
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Funding amount: £75,000
Supporting research excellence
Sustainability is one of the University of Surrey’s strategic research themes which have been defined to support the ambitious objectives for research excellence and impact.