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Mae ymchwil Kersty Hobson yn canolbwyntio ar faterion trawsnewid cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol, yn enwedig ym meysydd cynhyrchu a defnydd cynaliadwy, a llywodraethu amgylcheddol aml-lefel. Cyn symud i Brifysgol Caerdydd yn 2015, roedd ganddi swyddi academaidd ym Mhrifysgol Birmingham, Prifysgol Genedlaethol Awstralia, a Phrifysgol Rhydychen, lle mae ei hymchwil wedi archwilio arferion cynaliadwyedd cartrefi; sefydliadau anllywodraethol amgylcheddol; daearyddiaeth anifeiliaid; yn ogystal â llywodraethu newid yn yr hinsawdd a thrafod cyhoeddus. Mae ei hymchwil gyfredol yn canolbwyntio ar oblygiadau cymdeithasol-wleidyddol agenda yr economi gylchol a'r heriau ar gyfer.
Ym mis Awst 2026, Kersty yw Cydlynydd Cynaliadwyedd Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol a Gofodol
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. ‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning. British Educational Research Journal 52 (3), pp.2257-2280. (10.1002/berj.70103)
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. Development and validation of the School Contexts of Outdoor Learning (SCOOL) scale. Journal of Environmental Psychology 112 103034. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103034)
- Junker, M. et al. 2026. Pathways to nature connection? A photo-elicitation exploration on how children engage with a nature connection programme. Environmental Education Research 32 (6), pp.1697-1725. (10.1080/13504622.2025.2600603)
2025
- Godwin, E. et al., 2025. Making outdoor learning accessible and inclusive for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): a case study. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning (10.1080/14729679.2025.2601844)
- Williams, J. and Hobson, K. 2025. Climate change and low-carbon field research. In: Hammett, D. and Holmes, N. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Field Research. Routledge(10.4324/9781003404903-7)
- Dias, S. et al., 2025. Everyday circularities: Perspectives from the Global South [Discussion]. Consumption and Society 4 (2), pp.316-324. (10.1332/27528499Y2025D000000047)
- Greene, M. and Hobson, K. 2025. Everyday circularities: rethinking consumption in circular transformations [Editorial]. Consumption and Society 4 (2), pp.158-169. (10.1332/27528499Y2025D000000052)
2024
- Hobson, K. and O'Byrne, M. 2024. Sharing and repairing at university: on student practices, and the future of the circular campus. Circular Economy and Sustainability 4 (4), pp.2579-2598. (10.1007/s43615-024-00403-4)
- Hobson, K. and O'Byrne, M. 2024. What is the university for these days? Rethinking the foundations of the 'circular campus'. Journal of Circular Economy 2 (1), pp.1-13. (10.55845/BDCU6970)
- Hobson, K. 2024. Sustainability. In: Dombroski, K. et al., Introducing Human Geographies. Routledge. , pp.561-573. (10.4324/9780429265853-49)
- Greene, M. , Hobson, K. and Jaegar-Erben, M. 2024. Bringing the circular economy home - Insights from socio-technical perspectives on everyday consumption. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 12 100157. (10.1016/j.clrc.2023.100157)
2023
- Hobson, K. 2023. Business origami! Piecing together product life cycles in the product-service system. In: Fischer, D. et al., Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook.. Abingdon: Routledge. , pp.308-311. (10.4324/9781003018537-53)
- Leipold, S. et al., 2023. Lessons, narratives and research directions for a sustainable circular economy. Journal of Industrial Ecology 27 (1), pp.6-18. (10.1111/jiec.13346)
2022
- Aiken, G. T. et al., 2022. Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions. Global Environmental Change 75 102543.
2021
- Hobson, K. et al. 2021. Consumption work in the circular economy: a research agenda. Journal of Cleaner Production 321 128969. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128969)
- Hobson, K. 2021. The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy. Environmental Politics 30 (1-2), pp.161-179. (10.1080/09644016.2020.1816052)
2020
- Hobson, K. 2020. From circular consumers to carriers of (unsustainable) practices: socio-spatial transformations in the Circular City. Urban Geography 41 (6), pp.907-910. (10.1080/02723638.2020.1786329)
2019
- Hobson, K. 2019. 'Small stories of closing loops': social circularity and the everyday circular economy. Climatic Change 163 , pp.99-116. (10.1007/s10584-019-02480-z)
- Bridgens, B. et al., 2019. Closing the loop on e-waste: a multidisciplinary perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology 23 (1), pp.169-181. (10.1111/jiec.12645)
2017
- Wonneck, L. and Hobson, K. 2017. Practice-based spill-over effects: evidence from Calgary’s municipal food and yard waste recycling pilot. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien 61 (3), pp.415-427. (10.1111/cag.12391)
- Hobson, K. et al. 2017. Systems of practice and the circular economy: transforming mobile phone product service systems. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 26 , pp.147-157. (10.1016/j.eist.2017.04.002)
2016
- Hobson, K. and Lynch, N. 2016. Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world. Futures 82 , pp.15-25. (10.1016/j.futures.2016.05.012)
- Hobson, K. , Mayne, R. and Hamilton, J. 2016. Monitoring and evaluating eco-localisation: lessons from UK low carbon community groups. Environment and Planning A 48 (7), pp.1393-1410. (10.1177/0308518X16640531)
- Hobson, K. 2016. Closing the loop or squaring the circle? Locating generative spaces for the circular economy. Progress in Human Geography 40 (1), pp.88-104. (10.1177/0309132514566342)
- Hobson, K. , Hamilton, J. and Mayne, R. 2016. Monitoring and evaluation in UK low-carbon community groups: benefits, barriers and the politics of the local. Local Environment 21 (1), pp.124-136. (10.1080/13549839.2014.928814)
2013
- Hobson, K. 2013. ‘Weak’ or ‘strong’ sustainable consumption? Efficiency, degrowth, and the 10 Year Framework of Programmes. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 31 (6), pp.1082-1098. (10.1068/c12279)
- Hobson, K. and Niemeyer, S. 2013. "What sceptics believe": the effects of information and deliberation on climate change scepticism. Public Understanding of Science 22 (4), pp.396-412. (10.1177/0963662511430459)
- Hobson, K. 2013. On the making of the environmental citizen. Environmental Politics 22 (1), pp.56-72. (10.1080/09644016.2013.755388)
2011
- Hobson, K. and Niemeyer, S. 2011. Public responses to climate change: The role of deliberation in building capacity for adaptive action. Global Environmental Change 21 (3), pp.957-971. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.05.001)
- Cook, I. et al., 2011. Geographies of food: 'Afters'. Progress in Human Geography 35 (1), pp.104-120. (10.1177/0309132510369035)
2010
- Hobson, K. 2010. Beyond the control society. Administrative Theory and Praxis 32 (2), pp.252-261. (10.2753/ATP1084-1806320207)
2009
- Hobson, K. 2009. On a governmentality analytics of the 'deliberative turn': material conditions, rationalities and the deliberating subject. Space and Polity 13 (3), pp.175-191. (10.1080/13562570903454283)
- Hobson, K. 2009. On the modern and the nonmodern in deliberative environmental democracy. Global Environmental Politics 9 (4), pp.64-80. (10.1162/glep.2009.9.4.64)
2008
- Hobson, K. 2008. Reasons to be cheerful: thinking sustainably in a (climate) changing world. Geography Compass 2 (1), pp.199-214. (10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00085.x)
2007
- Hobson, K. 2007. Political animals? On animals as subjects in an enlarged political geography. Political Geography 26 (3), pp.250-267. (10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.10.010)
2006
- Hobson, K. 2006. Bins, bulbs, and shower timers: on the 'techno-ethics' of sustainable living. Ethics Place and Environment 9 (3), pp.317-336. (10.1080/13668790600902375)
- Hobson, K. 2006. Enacting environmental justice in Singapore: performative justice and the Green Volunteer Network. Geoforum 37 (5), pp.671-681. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.08.004)
- Hobson, K. 2006. Environmental psychology and the geographies of ethical and sustainable consumption: aligning, triangulating, challenging?. Area 38 (3), pp.292-300. (10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00669.x)
- Hobson, K. 2006. Environmental responsibility and the possibilities of pragmatist-orientated research. Social & Cultural Geography 7 (2), pp.283-298. (10.1080/14649360600600734)
2005
- Niemeyer, S. , Petts, J. and Hobson, K. 2005. Rapid climate change and society: assessing responses and thresholds. Risk Analysis 25 (6), pp.1443-1456. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00691.x)
2004
- Hobson, K. 2004. Sustainable consumption in the United Kingdom: the "responsible" consumer and government at "arm's length". Journal of Environment and Development 13 (2), pp.121-139. (10.1177/1070496504265013)
2003
- Hobson, K. 2003. Thinking habits into action: the role of knowledge and process in questioning household consumption practices. Local Environment 8 (1), pp.95-112. (10.1080/135498303200041359)
2002
- Hobson, K. 2002. Competing discourses of sustainable consumption: does the 'rationalisation of lifestyles' make sense?. Environmental Politics 11 (2), pp.95-120. (10.1080/714000601)
Articles
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. ‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning. British Educational Research Journal 52 (3), pp.2257-2280. (10.1002/berj.70103)
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. Development and validation of the School Contexts of Outdoor Learning (SCOOL) scale. Journal of Environmental Psychology 112 103034. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103034)
- Junker, M. et al. 2026. Pathways to nature connection? A photo-elicitation exploration on how children engage with a nature connection programme. Environmental Education Research 32 (6), pp.1697-1725. (10.1080/13504622.2025.2600603)
- Godwin, E. et al., 2025. Making outdoor learning accessible and inclusive for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): a case study. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning (10.1080/14729679.2025.2601844)
- Dias, S. et al., 2025. Everyday circularities: Perspectives from the Global South [Discussion]. Consumption and Society 4 (2), pp.316-324. (10.1332/27528499Y2025D000000047)
- Greene, M. and Hobson, K. 2025. Everyday circularities: rethinking consumption in circular transformations [Editorial]. Consumption and Society 4 (2), pp.158-169. (10.1332/27528499Y2025D000000052)
- Hobson, K. and O'Byrne, M. 2024. Sharing and repairing at university: on student practices, and the future of the circular campus. Circular Economy and Sustainability 4 (4), pp.2579-2598. (10.1007/s43615-024-00403-4)
- Hobson, K. and O'Byrne, M. 2024. What is the university for these days? Rethinking the foundations of the 'circular campus'. Journal of Circular Economy 2 (1), pp.1-13. (10.55845/BDCU6970)
- Greene, M. , Hobson, K. and Jaegar-Erben, M. 2024. Bringing the circular economy home - Insights from socio-technical perspectives on everyday consumption. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 12 100157. (10.1016/j.clrc.2023.100157)
- Leipold, S. et al., 2023. Lessons, narratives and research directions for a sustainable circular economy. Journal of Industrial Ecology 27 (1), pp.6-18. (10.1111/jiec.13346)
- Aiken, G. T. et al., 2022. Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions. Global Environmental Change 75 102543.
- Hobson, K. et al. 2021. Consumption work in the circular economy: a research agenda. Journal of Cleaner Production 321 128969. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128969)
- Hobson, K. 2021. The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy. Environmental Politics 30 (1-2), pp.161-179. (10.1080/09644016.2020.1816052)
- Hobson, K. 2020. From circular consumers to carriers of (unsustainable) practices: socio-spatial transformations in the Circular City. Urban Geography 41 (6), pp.907-910. (10.1080/02723638.2020.1786329)
- Hobson, K. 2019. 'Small stories of closing loops': social circularity and the everyday circular economy. Climatic Change 163 , pp.99-116. (10.1007/s10584-019-02480-z)
- Bridgens, B. et al., 2019. Closing the loop on e-waste: a multidisciplinary perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology 23 (1), pp.169-181. (10.1111/jiec.12645)
- Wonneck, L. and Hobson, K. 2017. Practice-based spill-over effects: evidence from Calgary’s municipal food and yard waste recycling pilot. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien 61 (3), pp.415-427. (10.1111/cag.12391)
- Hobson, K. et al. 2017. Systems of practice and the circular economy: transforming mobile phone product service systems. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 26 , pp.147-157. (10.1016/j.eist.2017.04.002)
- Hobson, K. and Lynch, N. 2016. Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world. Futures 82 , pp.15-25. (10.1016/j.futures.2016.05.012)
- Hobson, K. , Mayne, R. and Hamilton, J. 2016. Monitoring and evaluating eco-localisation: lessons from UK low carbon community groups. Environment and Planning A 48 (7), pp.1393-1410. (10.1177/0308518X16640531)
- Hobson, K. 2016. Closing the loop or squaring the circle? Locating generative spaces for the circular economy. Progress in Human Geography 40 (1), pp.88-104. (10.1177/0309132514566342)
- Hobson, K. , Hamilton, J. and Mayne, R. 2016. Monitoring and evaluation in UK low-carbon community groups: benefits, barriers and the politics of the local. Local Environment 21 (1), pp.124-136. (10.1080/13549839.2014.928814)
- Hobson, K. 2013. ‘Weak’ or ‘strong’ sustainable consumption? Efficiency, degrowth, and the 10 Year Framework of Programmes. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 31 (6), pp.1082-1098. (10.1068/c12279)
- Hobson, K. and Niemeyer, S. 2013. "What sceptics believe": the effects of information and deliberation on climate change scepticism. Public Understanding of Science 22 (4), pp.396-412. (10.1177/0963662511430459)
- Hobson, K. 2013. On the making of the environmental citizen. Environmental Politics 22 (1), pp.56-72. (10.1080/09644016.2013.755388)
- Hobson, K. and Niemeyer, S. 2011. Public responses to climate change: The role of deliberation in building capacity for adaptive action. Global Environmental Change 21 (3), pp.957-971. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.05.001)
- Cook, I. et al., 2011. Geographies of food: 'Afters'. Progress in Human Geography 35 (1), pp.104-120. (10.1177/0309132510369035)
- Hobson, K. 2010. Beyond the control society. Administrative Theory and Praxis 32 (2), pp.252-261. (10.2753/ATP1084-1806320207)
- Hobson, K. 2009. On a governmentality analytics of the 'deliberative turn': material conditions, rationalities and the deliberating subject. Space and Polity 13 (3), pp.175-191. (10.1080/13562570903454283)
- Hobson, K. 2009. On the modern and the nonmodern in deliberative environmental democracy. Global Environmental Politics 9 (4), pp.64-80. (10.1162/glep.2009.9.4.64)
- Hobson, K. 2008. Reasons to be cheerful: thinking sustainably in a (climate) changing world. Geography Compass 2 (1), pp.199-214. (10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00085.x)
- Hobson, K. 2007. Political animals? On animals as subjects in an enlarged political geography. Political Geography 26 (3), pp.250-267. (10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.10.010)
- Hobson, K. 2006. Bins, bulbs, and shower timers: on the 'techno-ethics' of sustainable living. Ethics Place and Environment 9 (3), pp.317-336. (10.1080/13668790600902375)
- Hobson, K. 2006. Enacting environmental justice in Singapore: performative justice and the Green Volunteer Network. Geoforum 37 (5), pp.671-681. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.08.004)
- Hobson, K. 2006. Environmental psychology and the geographies of ethical and sustainable consumption: aligning, triangulating, challenging?. Area 38 (3), pp.292-300. (10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00669.x)
- Hobson, K. 2006. Environmental responsibility and the possibilities of pragmatist-orientated research. Social & Cultural Geography 7 (2), pp.283-298. (10.1080/14649360600600734)
- Niemeyer, S. , Petts, J. and Hobson, K. 2005. Rapid climate change and society: assessing responses and thresholds. Risk Analysis 25 (6), pp.1443-1456. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00691.x)
- Hobson, K. 2004. Sustainable consumption in the United Kingdom: the "responsible" consumer and government at "arm's length". Journal of Environment and Development 13 (2), pp.121-139. (10.1177/1070496504265013)
- Hobson, K. 2003. Thinking habits into action: the role of knowledge and process in questioning household consumption practices. Local Environment 8 (1), pp.95-112. (10.1080/135498303200041359)
- Hobson, K. 2002. Competing discourses of sustainable consumption: does the 'rationalisation of lifestyles' make sense?. Environmental Politics 11 (2), pp.95-120. (10.1080/714000601)
Book sections
- Williams, J. and Hobson, K. 2025. Climate change and low-carbon field research. In: Hammett, D. and Holmes, N. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Field Research. Routledge(10.4324/9781003404903-7)
- Hobson, K. 2024. Sustainability. In: Dombroski, K. et al., Introducing Human Geographies. Routledge. , pp.561-573. (10.4324/9780429265853-49)
- Hobson, K. 2023. Business origami! Piecing together product life cycles in the product-service system. In: Fischer, D. et al., Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook.. Abingdon: Routledge. , pp.308-311. (10.4324/9781003018537-53)
Ymchwil
Ar hyn o bryd mae Kersty yn Gyd-ymchwilydd ar y prosiect a ariennir gan EPSRC BuildZero, a fydd yn rhedeg tan 2029. Mae hwn yn brosiect rhyngddisgyblaethol a fydd yn integreiddio gwybodaeth newydd o beirianneg, ecoleg ddiwydiannol, a'r gwyddorau cymdeithasol i ddatblygu model systemau o adeiladau'r DU. Am fwy o wybodaeth, gweler https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/buildzero/about-the-project
Mae prosiectau a ariannwyd yn y gorffennol wedi cynnwys:
- Prosiect 'Arloesi i bawb' Prifysgol Caerdydd o'r enw Rhannu ac atgyweirio: archwilio'r Economi Gylchol yng Nghyd-destun Addysg Uwch
- Prosiect a ariennir gan EPSRC CLEVER (Adfer E-wastraff Gwerthfawr yn Emosiynol)
- Prosiect Cyfnewid Gwybodaeth a ariennir gan ESRC o'r enw 'Monitro a Gwerthuso ar gyfer Cymunedau Cynaliadwy'.
- Gwobr Darganfod Cyngor Ymchwil Awstralia 'Addasiad Cymdeithasol i Newid Hinsawdd ym Maes Cyhoeddus Awstralia.'
Addysgu
Ar ôl gwasanaethu fel Cyfarwyddwr Dysgu ac Addysgu, Cyfarwyddwr Astudiaethau Israddedig a Chyfarwyddwr Cwrs ar gyfer yr MSc Cynaliadwyedd, Cynllunio a Pholisi Amgylcheddol, mae Kersty bellach yn treulio mwy o amser yn yr ystafell ddosbarth, gan addysgu ar y modiwlau canlynol yn 2026-27:
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