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Professor Damien Giurco, Deputy Director of Engagement at the Institute for Sustainable Futures

ISF: Our capabilities

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We look at the breadth of expertise that contributes towards creating a sustainable future.

ISF: Our capabilities transcript

Dani Alexander: ISF is a special butterfly; we work in so many areas.
So, we have a number of different research areas that are tackling this problem of a sustainable future from multiple different angles.

Damien Giurco: The breadth of expertise at ISF spans the technical, modelling analysis including with big data sets, to the human and the institutional; understanding the changes that will be needed in these spaces to deliver impact.

Stuart White: So, we're working with clients to develop and support them in solutions to sustainability problems. And secondly, we're applying a range of different disciplines and different ways of thinking to the problem, often learning from other areas and applying that across the problem that they're bringing to us.

Damien Giurco: When we work together in partnership, it's often as one big team and the thing that's important about this is the learning that's generated through the project manifests in our own team and that of the partner organisation.

Dani Alexander: We bring everyone together at the beginning and actually design the best solution with everyone's expertise in the same room and it's almost like a melting pot.

Stuart White: That's why all of our researchers have to think and operate in a completely interdisciplinary way, because that's how the problems of the world present themselves to us.

Damien Giurco: At ISF we believe there's no organisation too big or small to affect change we work with start-ups and entrepreneurs through to multinational organisations and governments at all scales, from the local right through to the United Nations.

Our research

Our expertise spans a range of areas, including business and economics, climate adaptation, energy, food systems, international development and more.

Who we work with

For more than 20 years, we’ve delivered independent, project-based research and consultancy services to commercial and government clients of all sizes.

Partner with us

When you partner with us, we’ll convene a specialist research team equipped with the specific mix of skills, experience and expertise required to produce your project.

What we offer our clients

Research impact

Impact is central to ISF’s work.

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Graduate research program

ISF has an award-winning graduate research program for Masters and Doctoral students.