The University of Manchester

About The University of Manchester :

The Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) at the University of Manchester is one of the largest groupings of environmental social scientists in the UK and internationally, and combines researchers from the School of Environment and Development and the School of Social Sciences. SERG researchers use political economic approaches to understand the dynamics of resource conflict and environmental change. The group has wide field experience, including Africa, Central and South America, North America, and Southern Europe. SERG competencies lie in the development and application of new theories of society-environment interactions; the empirical analyses of environmental change in the global North and South; political ecology; and evaluations of policy approaches in environmental management, and sustainability.

Their role in Entitle:

SERG organizes the first Entitle intensive course teaching fellows the most recent advances in political ecology theory. SERG´s mentors in Entitle are world renowned experts in urban political ecology, political theory of the environment, and the study of extractive activities. As part of Entitle, SERG´s Marie Curie fellows study the financialization of the global gold industry, and the remaking of Malaysian cities by bird nesting.