Chair in Sustainable Transformations and Wellbeing

Reimagining Knowledge. The Chair develops theoretical and practical approaches that examine the roles and power relations within the realm of sustainability transformations, and through that the influences of different ontologies (ways of knowing, being, and relating). 

Redefining Value. Moving beyond metrics-driven and competitive models of knowledge creation and being, the Chair investigates how a wider range of knowledges can be recognised and valued, and how such shifts might reshape academic structures while supporting wellbeing. 

Rethinking Universities. The Chair examines the reciprocal relationship between universities and socio-environmental transformations, asking how public institutions can more actively contribute to transformative change, and how emerging socio-environmental transformations, in turn, reshape the role of such institutions. 

Building on these guiding questions, the Chair approaches sustainability transformations from multiple perspectives and disciplines, including pluriversal studies, political ontology, and science and technology studies. By critically examining how knowledge is produced and the assumptions that underpin it, the Chair adopts an overarching, reflexive perspective across the themes of the SWIFFT Collective.