The Centre for Environment and Society fosters interdisciplinary research into the monitoring, management and mitigation of adverse impacts on our planet and the life it supports. 

We focus on pressing environmental, health and societal challenges, particularly those arising from climate change, and achieve research excellence in collaboration with a wide global network of academic partners, humanitarian organisations, national, regional and local agencies, regulators, institutions and stakeholder groups.  

The applied nature of our research and knowledge exchange activities allows our researchers to deliver meaningful and tangible benefits to the environment, to human health and to society. 

Our research centre provides an environment for world-class researchers to come together to work collaboratively, across disciplines to execute strategic and world-leading discovery science, that will enable us to better understand the changing planet and the life it supports and develop scientific, technological and political solutions that can be used to help safeguard our environment for future generations. 

Members collaborate with an extensive array of regional, national and international partners, from UK and international centres of excellence, to world renowned universities. Our members also work with national agencies, parks, trusts and museums, and have strong collaborations with industry.