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Research

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The Centre for Sustainability is an interdisciplinary research centre working on local and global sustainability challenges.

We collaborate with communities, iwi, councils, businesses and government agencies to design and deliver research. For many projects, we team up with researchers from other national and international institutions.

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Agriculture and food

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Climate change

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Energy transitions

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Environment and community

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Environment  and ecological systems

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Key funders for the Centre’s research include:

  • The Endeavour Fund
  • The Marsden Fund
  • Centres of Research Excellence
  • National Science Challenges

Affiliated research groups

At our Centre for Sustainability we support the Transport Research Network and Otago Energy Research Centre Research Themes:

In addition our staff and students are involved in:

We are also a foundation member of Sustainability Research at Otago

Visitor research

The Centre frequently hosts visitors from institutions around the globe who collaborate with our research teams and/or conduct their own independent research while at the Centre.