Established in 1967, the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia is one of the longest established, largest, and most fully accomplished interdisciplinary environmental science schools in the world. In 2017 it received the Queen’s anniversary prize for services to higher education. Since 2000, it has served as the headquarters of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, which is the UK's leading scientific research network for undertaking integrated research on climate change. To accomplish its aims it recognises the importance of working across a range of scales in space and time, from household to global and from the present to the distant future.
The School has a long tradition of working in EU Framework Programmes (including H2020) on climate-related research projects, including the coordination of the FP6 ADAM project, the FP7 Responses project and the COP21-RIPPLES project. The School’s strong tradition of research on environmental policy questions in an EU context includes, from December 2015, Prof. Andrew Jordan’s leadership of the UK ESRC-funded Brexit & Environment academic network, his associate directorship of the ESRC-funded CAST Centre (Climate Change and Social Transformations) and his ERC Advance Grant (2021-2026) – DeepDCarb.
