Dr Zareen Bharucha is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist based at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. Her current research interests are sustainability transitions, transformative approaches and community engagement with sustainability challenges. She has a growing portfolio of work on horizon scanning to identify future knowledge priorities in sustainability, including most recently as part of the H2020 project Energy SHIFTS (Energy Social sciences & Humanities Innovation Forum Targeting the SET-Plan). Here, she led on the development and coordination of a series of horizon scans to identify the top research questions in energy social sciences and humanities.
She has worked on various collaborative projects including those funded by NERC, the ESRC, the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust and the EU Horizon 2020 programme. She is committed to collaborative, challenge-led research that foregrounds equity, stakeholder participation and creative approaches. Outside of academic research she has a growing interest in the role of higher education in furthering the Sustainable Development Goals and is the founding co-chair of the Sustainable Development Goals Working Group at Anglia Ruskin University.