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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Noemi SinkovicsORCiD, Professor Abigail MarksORCiD, Professor Hayley Fowler, Professor Christian HicksORCiD, Dr Roy SandersonORCiD, Dr Jo SwaffieldORCiD, Dr Irene ChuORCiD, Dr Victoria PaganORCiD, Professor Cristina NeeshamORCiD, Dr Graham Long, Professor Tracy ScurryORCiD, Dr Rafael Corredoira
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The Responsible Futures Skills Lab was a two-day collaborative forum at Newcastle University Business School focused on how responsible and sustainable futures can be embedded in academic practice. While Day 1 addressed teaching, Day 2 focused on research: how cross-disciplinary, challenge-led work can be designed, supported, published, and made relevant beyond the academy. The day brought together business school scholars, climate and environmental researchers, modelling experts, journal editors, and participants from different institutions to examine what responsible futures research requires in practice. Discussions highlighted that cross-disciplinary research cannot simply add collaborators after a project has been framed. It requires early attention to problem definition, disciplinary assumptions, language, methods, publication strategies, stakeholder engagement, and institutional incentives. The report summarises the main insights from Day 2 and identifies practical lessons for designing research that is intellectually robust, institutionally viable, and relevant to societal challenges.
Author(s): Sinkovics N, Marks A, Hope A, Fowler H, Marsiliani L, Ott UF, Fiedler A, van Tulder R, Hicks C, Sanderson R, Rajwani T, Sinkovics RR, Swaffield J, Chu I, Pagan V, Neesham C, Allen M, Long G, Fath B, Scurry T, Tran Y, Toth Z, Glover C, Corredoira RA, Aravind BC
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title:
Type: Report
Year: 2026
Pages: 20
Print publication date: 23/05/2026
Online publication date: 23/05/2026
Acceptance date: 23/05/2026
Institution: Newcastle University Business School
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20352276
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20352276
Notes: Version v1; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Conference/session: Responsible Futures Skills Lab, Newcastle University Business School, 6–7 May 2026, session “Research for Responsible Futures”
