Teaching and Research

Teaching

The department of Sociology offers several academic modules in the area of environmental sustainability, such as:

• SO357 How Sociology Can Save the Environment
• SO2G6 Environmental Sociology
• The Sociology of Green Transformations
• SO378 Embodied inequalities: The politics of health and the environment
• Religion and the planetary crisis

In addition many of our modules address different aspects of environmental sustainability as they relate to social inequalities such as those of gender, race and class and in relation to the UN's global sustainability goals. These include:

• SO2H5 Work in Catastrophic Times
• SO363 Sociology of End Times
• SO923 Gender, Imperialism and International Development

Research

One of our research clusters, Just eco-geo-political futures, brings together academic staff and PhD students whose research interests relate to environmental sustainability.