Exploring trails and sidetracks on the way to a sustainable world (In-person)
About this event
This event takes place on our Cambridge campus. You can also join us virtually.
Please join us for the talk from 18:00, with a drinks reception from 19:00.
Location: SCI 105 and SCI atrium
In her inaugural professorial lecture, Minna Lammi will present key research topics and findings from her career. She will discuss aspects of sustainability transformations from both business and consumer perspectives. Her lecture will explore the role of innovation and new business models in the emerging circular economy. She will also discuss what role businesses, policymakers, and consumers play in building a sustainable society and what the future of sustainability research could focus on.
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About our speaker
Minna Lammi is a Professor of Sustainability at Anglia Ruskin University. Her expertise lies in circular economy, sustainable business models, consumer acceptance, and transition processes toward a sustainable society. Over the past decade, Minna has focused on the emerging circular economy, striving to make a meaningful impact through research aimed at promoting knowledge-based policies and driving societal change toward sustainability. She frequently employs participatory and deliberative methods in her work. Minna regularly collaborates with companies to promote the transition toward a circular economy and sustainable practices. Her research has been funded by several funding bodies, including the Strategic Research Council of Finland and ERDF, among others.
Currently, Minna leads Culture in an Increasingly Technologically Driven Society (2019-2025) - a programme funded by the Strategic Research Council, Finland. The programme aims to build an understanding of how digitalisation shapes our society and ensure that the change will be inclusiveness. The programme has also contributed to bringing various aspects of digitalisation, politics, and advice to policy makers.
Minna has edited ten academic books and has been a guest editor in several special journal issues. In addition to academic publications, she haspublished professional scholarly outputs about the Circular Economy, and about digitalisation in society.
Minna is also a Business and Management REF Convenor at ARU where she joined ARU’s faculty of business and law in 2021. Before that, she led research projects and a research group working across the University of Helsinki and the University of Cambridge.
Minna has held leadership roles in academia since 2009, as a head of research at the National Consumer Research Centre, Finland (2009-2015), and a leading researcher at the University of Helsinki (2015-2021). Prior to completing her doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 2006, she ran her freelance journalism company, which focused on technology and the economy.
This lecture marks Minna’s promotion to Professor of Sustainability in 2024.