School of Management
Royal Holloway University of London

The Centre for Research into Sustainability

CRIS Events

To be confirmed

How to find us? See our contact page.

Recent Events

From student to environmental entrepreneur: Neil Jennings
Thursday 12th January 2012, 6pm, Rialto, RHUL Students' Union
Student event organised by Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, attendance is free and no need to register

Marketing and sustainability workshop
Wednesday 11th January 2012 (WIN1-05) » MA Marketing blog for further details (event organised by RHUL's Marketing Group Dr Alan Bradshaw and will include presentations by Pierre McDonagh and Ray Benton)

Guest Lecture: Dr Russell Seymour, Sustainability Manager, Lord's Cricket Ground
Monday 28th November 2011. Please contact Professor Laura J. Spence for further details.

School of Management Research Seminar
Wednesday 23rd November 2011 (WIN1-02) 13.00-15.00
"Does better labour standard compliance pay? Linking compliance and competitiveness of supplier firms"
Dr Chika Oka, Lecturer, School of Management, RHUL

Ethical and Sustainable Consumption Workshop
Wednesday 14th September 2011 » Event details

Governmentality and Corporate Responsibility Workshop
Wednesday 7th September 2011 » Further details | Programme (PDF)

RHUL Women in Research Lecture Series
Wednesday 18th May 2011 (MBLT) 6 - 7.15pm
CRIS Director Dr Laura J. Spence interviewed on how her work on ethics was influenced by Prof. Carol Gilligan
» Listen to the interview

Spring Meeting
Wednesday April 13th 2011 (Archives Seminar Room) 10:30am - 12:00

School of Management/CRIS Research Seminar
Weds 9th March 2011 (FE139) 12:30 - 2:00pm
Dr Gloria Agyemang: "NGO Accountability mechanisms as a means of knowledge sharing"

ffCRIS Research Seminar
Weds 2nd March 2011 (WIN 0-03) 12:30 - 2:00pm
Prof. Dirk Matten (pictured right with Dr Laura Spence), Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto: "Why sustainability is here to stay as a business imperative in the new decade – towards a new theory of the private firm"

Winter Meeting
Weds February 16th 2011 (Archives Seminar Room, enter through Founders Library) 10:30am - 12:00

CRIS Research Seminar
Weds 9th February 2011 (New Science Block 1-11) 12:30 - 2:00pm  » Abstract
Professor Steve Brammar (Warwick): "Sustainable supply chain management in an international context: A systematic literature review"

Annual RHUL Sustainability Lecture
Mon 31st January 2011 (Windsor Building) 6pm  » Abstract and further details
Lord Prof. Robert May: "Best of Times, Worst of Times: Hard Choices for Tomorrow’s World"

School of Management/CRIS Research Seminar
Weds 26th January 2011 (WIN 0-03) 12:30 - 2:00pm
Dr Romano Dyerson & Dr Lutz Preuss: "Going with the flow? What CSR can learn from innovation"

External Speaker: Celia Moore, Corporate Citizenship Executive, Europe Middle East Africa, IBM
17th January 2011 (School of Management, MBLT) 6.15pm

ACCA/CRIS Event: SME and SMP perspectives on sustainability
Friday 19th November 2011 (ACCA, 29 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3EE)  » Further details

Autumn Meeting
Wednesday September 29th 2010 (Senior Common Room) 10:30am - 12:00

CRIS Summer Term Meeting
Weds 16th June 2010 Archive Seminar Room (via Founder's Library) 11:00-12:00 am

CRIS Spring Term Meeting
Tues 9th February 2010 Archive Seminar Room (via Founder's Library) 11:00-12:00 am

RHUL Sustainability Lecture

Driving Change: Meeting the Transport Technology Challenges of the 21st Century

Mon 8th March 2010, Windsor Building Auditorium 6pm
Professor Julia King, Vice-Chancellor of Aston University » Abstract and further details

CRIS Spring Term Meeting
Tues 9th February 2010 Archive Seminar Room (via Founder's Library) 11:00-12:00 am

CRIS Christmas Social
Mon 7th December 2009, Crosslands 5:00 pm

CRIS Autumn Term Meeting
Weds 4th November 2009, FE139 3:30 pm

CRIS Research Seminar – Reporting on sustainable development: a case study of Manaaki Whenua
Weds 4th November 2009, FE139 2:30-3:30 pm
Speaker: Jan Bebbington, Vice-Chair (Scotland) Sustainable Development Commission, and Director, St Andrews Sustainability Institute Location
» Abstract Word document

CRIS Social
Mon 2nd November 2009, Crosslands 5:00 pm
The return of the CRIS Social! All welcome

CRIS Research Seminar – Corporate identity, responsibility, and the ethics of complexity
Weds 28th October 2009, ABLT3 12:30-2:00 pm
Speaker: CRIS Visiting Scholar, Minka Woermann, Stellenbosch University
» Abstract PDF

Centre for Research into Sustainability Relaunch
Wednesday February 18th 2009, Windsor Building 1-05
» Presentation slides and further details

CRIS Research Seminar – The Conditions of our Freedom: Foucault, Organization and Ethics
December 16th 2008 12:30-2:30, Royal Holloway, University of London. IN244
Professor Andrew Crane, Schulich Business School, York University, Canada 
» Abstract Word document

CRIS Research Seminar – Are Sustainability and Human Rights Frameworks for Understanding the Ethical Obligations of Corporations Compatible?
November 10th 2008 10:30-12:00, Royal Holloway, University of London. IN244
Professor Wesley Cragg, Schulich Business School, York University, Canada
» Presentation slides PDF

CRIS Research Seminar – Sustainability Reporting
October 27th 2008, 12:00-2:00, Royal Holloway, University of London. IN244.
Abdul Razeed, Visiting Scholar, RHUL - 'Exploring a New Relm of Stakeholder Communication'
Dr Benedetta Siboni, Visiting Scholar, RHUL  - ‘Sustainability Reporting in Local Governments: The Italian Case’
» Abstract PDF

External Events

» Forthcoming conferences etc.

 

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