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‘The Sustainability Sandbox’: Cancan Wang receives funding for new research project using gamified representations of reality
Cancan Wang has recently been funded with a new project titled ‘The Sustainability Sandbox’ (SuS) through ITU discovery grant. SuS is a gamified representation of real-life sustainability projects, used to simulate and visualize the roles and needs of participants in addressing a specific sustainability problem. SuS is an action research project that aims to…
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DecouplingIT partner organization ‘Friendship’ wins Earthshot Prize
Our DecouplingIT partner organisation in Bangladesh, NGO Friendship, has been awarded the Earthshot Prize 2025, one of the world’s most prestigious recognitions for environmental innovation, often described as the “Nobel Prize for the environment.” The award was announced in early November 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, where Friendship won in the “Fix Our Climate” category.…
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Felipe Figueiredo contributes thought provoking chapter to book on low carbon research methods
Felipe Figueiredo, PhD fellow at the IT-University of Copenhagen, has co-authored chapter 11, “Landing Down the Carbon Clouds: Stories of Another Present,” with Clarissa Reche in the book “Low Carbon Research Methods: Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonising Academic Work”. The chapter is a thought provoking science fiction that forces the reader to think about…
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Conference panel and paper accepted for Cancan Wang
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics conference July 1-4, 2026 Associate Professor Cancan Wang has gotten her co-authored conference paper and panel accepted for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) conference. The panel theme is Network S: Environment and Climate Change and will feature the following panel discussants: Jeremy Brice (jeremy.brice@manchester.ac.uk, University of Manchester,…
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Advisory board visits: Inspiring encounters
Chunrong Liu spring visit March 23-26, 2026 On the 23rd of March, Professor of Political Science at Fudan University Chunrong Liu visited the Decoupling IT research group as a part of the project’s advisory board. During the visit Chunrong presented his ongoing research projects and gave valuable feedback to the Decoupling IT project researchers. The…
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This work is supported by ERC grant 101045473. DOI: 10.3030/101045473