Proposals in one hour Held at the University of Manchester, the first SPRG Summer School considered how transitions in everyday life can be brought about to create more sustainable societies, and what this means for the design of 'interventions'.Opportunities to work with and get to know other participants took the form of 'Apprentice'-style tasks to 'write a research proposal in one hour', anthropological explorations of changing practices on Manchester's Oxford Road, and a 'conceptual

Fieldwork on Oxford Road

carousel' in which participants discussed and critiqued contrasting concepts of behavioural & practice change.Ted Schatzki and Alan Warde contributed stimulating papers in their session, in which they presented and discussed their latest thinking on theories of practice and how it can be applied to studying transitions to more sustainable ways of living. The concluding session took the form of a 'Question Time' panel, in which participants at the summer school posed questions to representatives from the Scottish Government, Tesco and DEFRA.

Definitely something to write home about, and as a final activity we did just that, writing key messages and points of interest on postcards to be sent to colleagues that were unable to attend.

Reports from the Summer School
The British Sociological Association's Climate Change Study Group sponsored three PhD students - Rebecca Collins, Javier Lloveras and Janine Morley - to attend the SPRG summer school. In return each reported on their experience. Their reports are available from the Downloads section below.