About LiRICS

The Liverpool Research Institute for Climate and Sustainability (LiRICS) aims to accelerate interdisciplinary sustainability (especially climate action) research with impactful solutions for economic, legal, educational, environmental, and infrastructural systems.

It focuses on four key objectives in relation to its thematic areas:

  • To increase external grant income capture.
  • To increase the volume of internationally excellent and world-leading outputs.
  • To create educational opportunities for behaviour change.
  • To facilitate collaborative engagement and impact initiatives for internal and external stakeholders.

LiRICS will add value by:

  • creating a credible institutional platform and infrastructure which demonstrates to external funders (and partners) that LJMU can successfully deliver
    • large-scale, inter- and multi- disciplinary complex projects, and
    • support sustainability-related, inter- and multi- disciplinary doctoral training programmes, combining STEM, the arts, the social sciences and humanities.
  • demonstrating an interdisciplinary infrastructure to support ‘people, culture and environment’ to build sustainability-related careers through project seeding and multi-stakeholder engagement/impact skills and career development
  • providing an interdisciplinary infrastructure to proactively partner with stakeholders to incubate and then accelerate sustainability-related, interdisciplinary enterprise and innovation products and services which target behaviour change – work closely with LJUM’s new IDEAS programme to deliver

Our team

  • Head of LiRICS: Dr Colm Bowe
  • Partnerships for accelerating network: Dr Christos Kontovas and Dr Ibijoke Idowu
  • Inclusive transitions network: Dr Komang Ralebitso Senior and Dr Matej Christiaens
  • Greening economy network: Dr Konstantina Skritsovali and Prof David Ong Khai Long
  • Lifespan education network: Dr Angie Daly and Dr Avril Rowley
  • Nature Based Solutions network: Dr Colm Bowe and Dr Danielle Hinchcliffe
  • Founding members: Professor Jason Kirby and Professor Tony Wall

Advisory Dialogue Board

  • Dr Gideon Ben-Tovim OBE – Chair Liverpool City Region Climate Partnership and Liverpool City Region Local Nature Partnership (Nature Connected)
  • Becky Toal - Director Crowberry Energy and Consulting
  • Khan Odita – social entrepreneur and CIC founder
  • David Connor – Independent Consultant – former lead of the world first UN recognised 2030 Hub