Publications

Landscape view of an informal settlement - Mukuru - in Nairobi, Kenya. Cattle graze in the foreground, in the middle distance there are corrugated iron buildings and multiple telegraph poles standing between. A factory dominates the background, with smoke spreading across the dwellings in front of it.

Young people’s experiences of breathing, air pollution and respiratory health in a large African city

Journal article / "Breathing well" is about more than air quality: cleanliness, population and building density and the presence of vegetation all make a difference.

2 October 2026 / About Cities and Pollution

A woman crouches on the floor in front of a wall covered in colourful sticky notes. She is talking to a woman sitting on a chair and a toddler, both of whom have their back to the camera.

An evaluation of a parent-led citizen science project

Journal article / Quantitative measures combined with free-text boxes in surveys can provide rich insights into the impact of citizen science activities on participants.

2 October 2026 / About Participation

Aerial view of a woman's hands with red-varnished nails on a laptop keyboard. The woman is outside and appears to be sitting on something concrete on stone-paved ground.

Framework for neuro-inclusive digital citizen science: results from the Neuro(Minorities) Science Collaboration

Journal article / Accessibility is not only a matter of compliance or inclusion, but a methodological condition that shapes who participates and how they contribute.

2 October 2026

A group of little duplo people figurines have been lined up on a shelf. Most of the line is in soft focus; in the centre one smiling figure has been positioned with their hand raised, and is facing another, who is also smiling. Other toy figures in soft focus can be seen smiling too.

“The way enthusiasm builds”: frame amplification and emotional reinforcement in participatory policymaking

Journal article / By observing participatory policymaking activities, researchers found that frames and emotions are mutually co-constitutive.

29 September 2026 / About Participation

A group of people review post-in notes stuck to a large glass window. Their emotions vary, from smiles, to concentration.

Uniting citizen science and plural valuation: potential for leveraging transformative change

Journal article / The authors set out four key leverage points for change, and show where citizen science can strengthen plural valuation at each stage.

29 September 2026 / About Participation

A group of teenage students stand on a pebble beach facing a faciliator. He is giving them instructions.

Environmental citizen science in schools: impacts on knowledge, attitudes and behaviour

Journal article / Providing students with hands-on nature-based citizen science education can lead to greater frequency and range of pro-environmental behaviours.

25 September 2026 / About Participation

Scaling community energy in the UK: what national policy must address to enable local delivery

SEI brief / This SEI brief outlines how the UK can address regulatory and other barriers to achieve its ambition to expand community-owned, renewable energy sources.

21 September 2026 / About Public policy and Renewables

Women from Majhora Village, in the Mahottari District of Nepal, make themselves warm during the evening. There was not any sun for one week in the village due to the winter fog. During the winter fog people burn agriculture byproducts more and more to keep them warm. The more they burn the more black carbon is produced, prolonging the fog and increasing its impact on the people of the Terai region during the winter season.

Estimating the vulnerability contribution to 1990–2019 changes in the health burden of ambient air pollution: a global modelling study

Journal article / This research examines how changes in population vulnerability and exposure to air pollutants affect global air pollution-related mortality trends.

15 September 2026 / About Pollution

Birds fly above burning waste at the municipal landfill in Teófilo Otoni. Minas Gerais State, Brazil. July 27 2025.

Hidden assets: the economic and health case for climate and clean air action

Other publication / The 2026 global economic assessment for climate and clean air action highlights the costs of inaction. Each year of delay could cost over USD 1.5 trillion.

7 September 2026 / About Finance and Pollution

Aerial view of wind turbines dotting a rugged brown hillside along the coast in Chile at sunset.

The Implementation Gap: anticipating missed renewable energy targets through media-sentiment and social resistance index

Other publication / This research highlights the need to treat social viability as a core part of renewable energy planning, investment and implementation.

3 September 2026 / About Participation and Renewables

Roasted coffee beans suspended in the air against a blurred indoor background.

A global approach for mapping the supply chain of coffee: data and methods

Other publication / An open-access Trase dataset mapping global coffee supply chains, including trader information and subnational sourcing patterns.

20 August 2026 / About Food and agriculture and Supply chains

A charging station for electric vehicles in Nigeria

Climate and clean air action framework: an emission reduction guide for transport businesses in Nigeria

SEI report / A six-step roadmap for transport businesses in Nigeria to cut their emissions – and at the same time improve their operations and finances.

17 August 2026 / About Mitigation and Transport

Tree Value Visions – integrating relational values and multispecies justice in urban treescape management

Journal article / Tree Value Visions is a low-resource deliberative tool for inclusive, values-led urban treescape planning, grounded in the IPBES Life Framework.

13 July 2026 / About Forests

A network of multi-coloured gas pipes and black barrels in an open dirt clearing, with trees in the background.

Methane action for people and planet from discovery to solution: the Angera Declaration, what are the implications for Africa?

Journal article / The authors present an African perspective on the Angera Declaration: a methane action statement signed by over 150 scientists around the world.

10 July 2026 / About Cities, Food and agriculture, Household energy, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Transport

Street level shot of a row of terraced houses in the London borough of Newham.

Publicly accessible data and computer vision for retrofit planning: evidence from London social housing

Journal article / Publicly accessible housing data and machine learning hold genuine promise for large-scale urban retrofit strategy.

30 June 2026 / About Climate policy and Mitigation