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In conversation with Milena Büchs, Professor of Sustainable Welfare at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds.

Join us for this fascinating discussion with as we explore the relationship between economic growth and the welfare state.

Milena Büchs is Professor of Sustainable Welfare at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK. Milena's research focuses on sustainable welfare, eco-social policy, just transitions and climate justice. She has published widely on the relationship between economic growth and welfare states and the question of how welfare states can be transformed so that everyone's needs can be met within planetary limits. Milena is currently a Co-Investigator in two Horizon Europe projects, MAPS - Models, Assessments and Policy for Sustainability, and ToBe - Towards a Sustainable Wellbeing Economy. In MAPS, she is leading a work package on sustainable welfare. Prior to joining the University of Leeds in 2016, she was a Lecturer and Associate Professor in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton (2005-2016), and completed a PhD in Social Policy at the Humboldt University Berlin.

More details about the session will be published closer to the event.

The session is part of the 'Rethinking Prosperity on a Finite Planet' event series.