Professor Andy Stirling has spent his academic career at the University of Sussex. His research spans genetically-modified organisisms (GMOs) to sustainaility governance, socio-technical transitions. .
Andy has been a professor at SPRU since 2006, co-directing the ESRC STEPS Centre from then until 2021. He was elected a fellow of the UK Academy of Social Science in 2017. He has won a series of externally-resourced grants, including the ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC at UKRI, as well as the Wellcome Trust, businesses and charities and agencies and ministries of UK and other governments and the EU. He has also led as deupty director for the DEFRA/ESRC Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (2010-2014) and Sussex PI for the ESRC Nexus Network (2014-2017). Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for Greenpeace on international nuclear disarmament and energy campaigns.