School of Social and Political Science

Description

Professor Milena Büchs specialises in sustainable welfare, social-ecological policy and just transitions. Milena’s research focuses on questions such as 1) how can we develop greener and more growth-independent welfare states and social policies; 2) how can the distributional and wellbeing impacts of climate policies be improved; 3) how can we understand and promote transitions towards postgrowth / wellbeing economies?

Milena is currently a Co-Investigator (Leeds PI) of the Horizon Europe project MAPS: Models, Assessment and Policies for Sustainability (2024-2028); a Co-Investigator of the Horizon Europe Project ToBe: Towards a sustainable wellbeing economy” (2023-2026), and Co-I of the Competence Centre on Just Transitions funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation (2023-2026).