What does the BRASS Centre do?
Our Approach
The Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society exists to understand and promote the vital issues of sustainability, accountability and social responsibility, through research into key business relationships. The centre strives to promote this issues through its links with policy, business, the public, academics and the media.
Research carried out by BRASS remains years ahead in its innovative thinking and approach to issues of sustainability. Notable projects have included Foot and Mouth disease, The Commercial and Industrial Waste Survey, The Ecological Footprinting of the FA Cup Final in 2004, our work on the automotive industry, the Chatham House Future of Food Supply and Demand project in 2008 and recently, BRASS' work on nanotechnologies. To visit the full list of BRASS research, please click here
Expert areas
Researchers at BRASS are available for comment to the media on the following issues:
(To see a full list of researchers available for comment, please click here)
- Airline Industry - International
- Agricultural extension
- Business Ethics and Sustainability
- Culture and identity
- Company Law
- Corporate Governance
- Car and the Environment
- Commercial Vehicle Industry
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Consumer Response to Climate Change
- CSR in practice: employee volunteering & corporate philanthropy
- Consumer attitudes towards Climate Change
- Climate Change & Consensus building
- Corporate Manslaughter
- Criminal Law
- CSR in the extractive industry
- Corporate community relations, community engagement
- Consumption Issues facing Cardiff
- Disasters and Law
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Extended producer responsibility (WEEE)
- Eco-schools
- Environmental New Product Development
- Ethical Consumerism and Ethical Fashion
- Environmental Impacts of Major Sporting Events
- Ecological Footprinting
- European Environmental Policy
- Environmental Regulation
- ESDGC (Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship) in schools
- Green spaces
- Gender mainstreaming
- Human-animal relationships
- Impact Analysis
- Inward Investment
- Industrial Relations
- Knowledge transfer and animal health
- Nature-society relationships
- Natural resource management
- Motor Industry in Japan and South Korea
- Marketing and Sustainability, including 'green' marketing and marketing and the environment
- Pressure Groups and the Environment
- Political Parties and the Environment
- Poverty and the environment
- Rural development
- Rural livelihoods
- Regional/ Local Economic Modelling
- Regional Economy Development
- Social Marketing
- Steel Industry in the UK and Europe
- Sustainable Communities
- Skills, knowledge and learning/ Practical knowledge - knowledgeable practice
- Sustainable Lifestyles, Sustainable Consumption
- Sustainable communities
- Sustainable development
- Social integration and inclusion
- Social Marketing
- Social Enterprise
- Social Responsibility and Business
- Social Responsibility in Clothing Supply Chains
- Sustainability and Economic Policy in Wales
- Sustainability reporting
- Sustainable food supply chains
- The Car Industry
- Work-Life Balance
- Waste Prevention/ Avoidance
- Waste Management
- Wellbeing
