Community & Culture Lead
Pauline is Professor of Circular Economy and Sustainability in Salford Business School, where she sits in the Entrepreneurship and Sustainability subject group.
Her research takes an interdisciplinary social science approach to the coordination of environmental, economic and social priorities, with consideration of the perspectives and relationships between different stakeholders and how these are influenced by their geographic content and spatial relationships.
Focused primarily on resource-related issues and initiatives, much of Pauline’s work has been collaborative, including multi/inter/transdisciplinary projects across a range of social, natural and engineering disciplines. Examples include governance of extracting e-metals from steel slag (NERC ESRC DEFRA); stakeholder perspectives on bioplastic (EPSRC); grass-roots bioeconomy (Research England) and the interactions of a circular economy with place (EU): company engagement with eco-design (University of Hull).
Open to any topics where her qualitative and contextualised approach to the circular economy may be useful, Pauline offers in particular her expertise in research training for the circular economy, developed through the EU Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Doctoral training network ‘Cresting’: Circular Economy: Sustainability implications and guiding progress’, which she coordinated. The project trained 15 early career researchers across eight institutions in six countries.