Research and Knowledge Exchange
About our research into sustainability
Research is critical to Kingston University's distinctiveness, success and sustainability in an increasingly competitive higher education environment. As a university with a professional and technical focus, business engagement, knowledge exchange, and professional practice are at the heart of our identity. We support multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary ways to address existing and emerging issues.
Research Excellence Framework
In the 2022 Research Excellence Framework (REF), 70% of our research was considered either world-leading or internationally excellent, and we are continuing to build our research reputation by fostering a collaborative, outward-looking research culture across the institution.
Research Centres and Projects
Several sustainability research projects at Kingston University engage Kingston students and stakeholders in tackling sustainability from the environmental, social, economic and cultural pillars.
Sustainability and UN SDGs research projects
- Collaborative project co-led by Kingston School of Art academic examines the role of the natural environment in migrant integration in the United Kingdom
- Net Zero Carbon Campuses for Climate Change Mitigation and Resilience
- Biochar from agri-waste for removal of emerging pollutants in wastewater
- The Old Pants Project: Mycoremediation of waste textiles
- SwanaSmartStore
- Linking plant functional traits with palaeoecological proxies in peatland habitats
- Bee Smart: Improving yields for cashew growers in Ghana with smart pollination management
- Asset Based Storytelling in Kingston
- Making It Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration - MaHoMe
- Expressive Writing: Psychosocial support for front line Health Care Workers during and after the COVID-19 Outbreak
- Make Film History: Opening up the BBC Archives to Young Filmmakers
- Make Film History - Opening up the Archives to Young Filmmakers
- Domesticities
- Ethnic Food Shops
- Ethnic Food Entrepreneurship
- How to Feed Britain
- Shared Wealth
- Predicting school readiness amongst preterm children in Qatar and the UK: Behavioural, psychological and health development
- The extent of mental health and stress problems in rail workers including small and medium sized companies
- Technology evolution and the pay gap between top managers and employees
- Alternative origins of nationalism: Learning from experiences of East Asia
- Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Making Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES)
- A New Understanding of Job Demands-Resources Theory through Career Turning Points
Sustainability research groups within the University
Responsible Innovation Sustainability Entrepreneurship (RISE)
Responsible Innovation Sustainability Entrepreneurship (RISE) comprises researchers who share an interest in the transformation of society through the promotion and diffusion of sustainable technologies.