There are a multitude of challenges that are confronting governments today, including the pressing need to create a more sustainable future. One way in which governments can strive to achieve this is through developing greener energy processes.
Energy underpins nearly everything we do – and energy policy is responsible for addressing how energy is produced, distributed, and consumed around the globe, whether at community, organisational or governmental level. And this doesn’t come without its challenges.
Hosted exclusively for students studying our Energy Policy MSc (online), members of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) run monthly networking events to provide an opportunity for thought-provoking debates, sharing of research insights and a social, online environment to grow professional networks. Find out more about the events and benefits of attending below.
Meet Ayako Yoshida – one of our online Energy Policy Masters students currently studying with the University of Sussex from her base in Vienna. Ayako works as an International Consultant at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and chose online study so she could keep doing the job she loves while gaining a Masters in a subject she’s passionate about.
Throughout February and March, thousands of children and young people across the UK and the rest of the globe, walked out of school to join a nati…
In February 2019 the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and Sussex Energy Group hosted a panel discussion and network…
A recent study by the University of Sussex and the International School of Management, Germany has compared the security, political governance, economic development and climate change performance of major hydropower facilities in different countries, against oil-producing and all other countries using 30 years of World Bank data.
Three campaigning students from the University of Sussex, have helped Sussex become the most active university in the world to use an environmentally-friendly search engine.
A major new European study co-authored by a University of Sussex Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Sussex Energy Group, has found that individuals have as big a role to play in tackling climate change as major corporations, but only if they can be encouraged to make significant lifestyle changes by effective government policy.
