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Professor Anthony Ryan OBE
Professor Anthony Ryan OBE
Professor Anthony Ryan OBE is a professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and the founding Director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
Tony is very active in translational research, disseminating evidence-based science to both experts and non-experts and has been a regular contributor to TV, Radio, National Press and at learned societies from The Royal Society of Chemistry to Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs.
As Co-Director, he currently leads the University of Sheffield’s programme in sustainability research across pure and applied sciences, engineering and social sciences. His focus is on the global food, water and energy nexus challenge, harnessing the power of the sun for food production and renewable energy.
Dr Kristoffer Kortsen
Dr Kristoffer Kortsen
Kristoffer s a researcher at the intersection of science and social policy. He completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham, looking at synthesising core-shell polymer particles in scCO2 via dispersion polymerizations in the Howdle Research Group. In 2022, he moved to Manchester, where he joined the 'One Bin to Rule Them All' project with Professor Mike Shaver, unifying chemistry, economics, and social science to simplify plastic recycling.
He is currently working towards developing a ‘Plastics Hierarchy of Fates’ tool that summarises technical information in a more accessible manner and encourages progress in plastics recycling. The idea is to set out the merits and perils of potential decisions in plastic waste processing and recycling with a forward-looking perspective on maximising circularity.
Professor Nathan Hughes
Professor Nathan Hughes
Nathan is professor of adolescent health and justice at the Department of Sociological Studies, and deputy director of the ESRC Centre for Care. Focusing on the intersection of social policy, criminology, and developmental sciences, Nathan studies the relationship between disability and crime, and its implications for policy and practice.
Professor Vikki McCall
Professor Vikki McCall
Dr Vikki McCall is a Professor of Social Policy in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling and is the Honorary Secretary for the Social Policy Association Executive Committee and Editorial Board member of Social Policy & Society.
Professor McCall’s work includes leading projects focusing on housing, ageing, stigma, co-production the role of front-line workers, service users, volunteers and the policy process. Professor McCall is Principal Investigator on UK-wide projects including Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA) project funded by the ESRC (2022-2027) and the Inclusive Living support for older people in residential care (INVITE) project funded by the Longleigh Foundation (2020-2023). She is also Co-I on the UKRI funded Designing homes for healthy cognitive ageing: co-production for impact and scale (DesHCA) project (2020-2024).
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