Inclusive Sustainability: 2025 Campaign

Championing inclusive sustainability

At the Centre for Sustainable Business, we're striving towards a more equitable and sustainable future for all.

We are committed to tackling the critical challenges faced by women and marginalised groups across business, sustainability, the workplace, and the global economy. Through our research, we aim to drive meaningful change where it’s needed most.

As part of this commitment, 2025 marks the launch of our Inclusive Sustainability Campaign—a dynamic initiative to highlight inclusive research in sustainable business. 

We've created this space to spotlight pioneering research throughout the year. If you're an academic and would like your research in inclusive sustainability to be featured, get in touch: sustainablebusiness@kcl.ac.uk

Join us on this journey. Subscribe to our mailing list to stay informed about the latest research and opportunities to get involved. 

'The Midlife Mountain': Why women struggle to start social businesses

Our first featured research of the year is Professor Ute Stephan's publication; 'Entrepreneurship, age, and social value creation: A constraint-based individual perspective'.

Her research explores 'The Midlife Mountain', where women in their late 30s to 40s are shown to be disproportionately held back from founding socially responsible businesses due to competing household and financial demands.

We ran a PR campaign to bring some of the publication's most vital statistics and findings to the greater public. Her research was featured in a range of publications, including Stylist, Forbes and Womanthology.

Professor Ute Stephan is an Affiliate of the Centre and Professor of Entrepreneurship at King's Business School. She is an expert on the Psychology of Entrepreneurship, with a focus on how individuals and societies can thrive through entrepreneurship.

Find out more about Ute's research here.

Visualising research

We've created an infographic to bring Professor Stephan's research to life.

Her research builds evidence on how contexts (culture and institutions) shape entrepreneurship and well-being, and how entrepreneurship, in turn, can help to build more inclusive societies.

Download an accessible version of this research and share with your networks here.

Taking research to Parliament

In April 2025, Professor Ute Stephan was invited to present her research to UK Parliament’s Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities, where she presented part of this campaign to the committee.

We're proud to have helped Professor Stephan bring her vital research to key policymakers. See her written submission here.