The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST)

CAST is a global hub for understanding the crucial role that people play in fighting climate change. We are a cross-institutional research centre with world-leading expertise in environmental psychology, behaviour change, public engagement, policy, governance, education, communications and more. Underpinning CAST’s research is a question of immense significance: how can we transform society in order to live better and address climate change? While there is now strong international momentum around tackling the climate and nature crisis, critical targets will be missed without fundamental changes to the way we live. CAST goes beyond disciplinary and theoretical boundaries in order to better understand how to transform lifestyles, social structures and systems of governance for a sustainable, low-carbon future. Our team is based across five UK institutions, including the University of Bath (our centre hub), the University of Manchester, the University of East Anglia and Cardiff University, as well as the charity Climate Outreach. We are funded by the ESRC.