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

LiRICS leads

Professor Jason Kirby

Professor Tony Wall

Advisory Dialogue Board

David Connor: Liverpool 2030hub, the world’s first UN-recognised local 2030hub

Khan Odita: local serial social entrepreneur

Becky Toal: Crowberry Energy and Consulting

LiRICS will also have a Steering Committee (composed of directors and network leads).

LiRICS’s Advisory Dialogue Board (and its members) will meet two to three times per year to:

  • explore opportunities relevant to LiRICS’s goals
  • explore LiRICS’s achievements and impacts relevant to its goals
  • represent and promote LiRICS’s own opportunities as relevant to wider societal impacts