Dr Susan Venn

Susan is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey.  Her research interests focus on sustainable lifestyles, everyday practices and lifecourse transitions, and her research takes place within multidisciplinary settings.  Prior to joining CUSP, Sue was a researcher at University College London working within the DEMAND Research Centre where she examined older people’s experiences of leisure travel, and their aspirations for future travel beyond retirement, in order to understand the implications later life mobility might have for future energy demand. Sue has also been a Researcher on the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG) at the University of Surrey where she explored the possibility for lifecourse transitions to offer potential points of intervention to encourage more sustainable lifestyles.

Sue will be working on Theme S1 which will focus on the social and psychological dimensions of prosperity exploring how people negotiate their aspirations for the good life.  A further project in this theme is an international study being developed in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on young people’s live in cities across the world. Sue is also Past Honorary Secretary of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) (www.britishgerontology.org), and Secretary of the BSG Averil Osborn Awards Committee.

Recent publications

Prendergast K, Hayward B, Aoyagi M, Burningham K, Hasan M M, Jackson T, Jha V, Kuroki L, Loukianov A, Mattar H, Schudel I, Venn S and Yoshida A 2021. Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An international cities comparison. In Frontiers in Political Science, Sept 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2021.696105

Burningham K and S Venn 2021. “Two quid, chicken and chips, done”: understanding what makes for young people’s sense of living well in the city through the lens of fast food consumption. In: Local Environment, Nov 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.2001797.

Venn S and K Burningham 2021. Managing the retention or divestment of material possessions in the transition to retirement: implications for sustainable consumption and for later-life wellbeing. Ageing & Society, First View. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20001993

Prendergast K, Hayward B, Aoyagi M, Burningham K, Hasan M M, Jackson T, Jha V, Kuroki L, Loukianov A, Mattar H, Schudel I, Venn S and Yoshida A 2021. Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An international cities comparison. In Frontiers in Political Science, Sept 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2021.696105

Nissen S, Prendergast K, Aoyagi M et al 2020. Young people and environmental affordances in urban sustainable development: insights into transport and green and public space in seven cities. In: Sustainable Earth 3, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-020-00039-w.

Burningham K, Venn S, Hayward B, Nissen S, Aoyagi M, Hasan MM, Jackson T, Jha V, Mattar H, Schudel I & A Yoshida 2019. Ethics in context: essential flexibility in an international photo-elicitation project with children and young people, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672282.

Burningham, K and S Venn 2017. Moments of Change—Are lifecourse transitions opportunities for moving to more sustainable consumption?. CUSP Working Paper no 7. Guildford: Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity.

Burningham K and S Venn 2017. Are lifecourse transitions opportunities for moving to more sustainable consumption?, In: Journal of Consumer Culture.

Burningham K and S Venn 2017. Understanding and Practising Sustainable Consumption in Early Motherhood, In: Journal of Consumer Ethics, 1(2).

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