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The Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS) is a multidisciplinary, internationally-leading group of researchers and educators at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. We are world-leading in three research areas, which form the basis of our expertise.
1. Accounting for Sustainability
This work covers topics of accountability, voluntary corporate reporting, sustainability accounting, and governance.
2. Responsible Consumption
This work covers topics of ethical consumption, marketing ethics, sharing and alternative economies.
3. Responsible Business
This work covers the evolution of corporate social responsibility and social and environmental sustainability, equality, diversity and inclusion, governance, lobbying, and alternative forms of organizational responsibility, including NGOS, SMEs and cooperatives.
In addition, our current cross-cutting critical agendas are:
Gender and Social Change
Keywords: Gender, masculinities, feminism, family roles, gendered commodity chains, representation of women in advertising.
Global Impact Chains
Keywords: Supply chains, value chains, environmental and social sustainability, developing country contexts, migration, immigration.
Precarious work and Modern Slavery
Keywords: Precarity, bonded labour, trafficking, stakeholder voice, regulation, inclusion and diversity, impacts of COVID-19.
Alternative Economies
Keywords: Subcultures, alternative living, sharing economy, anti-capitalism, afri-capitalism, social movements, digital nomads.
PhDs with CRIS
We are actively seeking high quality PhD students to work with CRIS members on sustainability-related topics. Please see individual staff research pages for an indication of their key interests and contact us directly to discuss further. General information on applying to study a research degree at Royal Holloway can be found here.
Partnerships and Collaborations
We work alongside a number of businesses, NGOs, research centres and universities. For more idea of our research collaboration, please see the NGOS, Business and Policymakers tab.