Research in Action Workshop 2026

The Science of Critical Minerals and the Realigning Global Order

Apr 27–28, 2026 Download .ics

University of Cambridge, UK | Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, University of Cambridge, in partnership with The Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals: A Transregional Comparison of Growth Strategies in Rare Earth Mining Project (Funded by European Research Council (ERC) administered by University of Sussex, UK., are organizing the Research in Action Workshop 2026: The Science of Critical Minerals and the Realigning Global Order, on 27–28 April 2026 at the University of Cambridge.

The workshop will engage scientists (physicists and chemists) who work on energy materials and materials, which must come to be referred to as critical minerals and/or rare earth minerals, and social scientists (economists, historians, political scientists). The importance of critical minerals in the global economy and the transition to green energy requires a multi-disciplinary conversation between scientists, engineers, economists, and political scientists.


Organizing Team

Sunanda Nair-Bidkar (INET)

Bikram Barman (INET)

Prajakti Kalra (Cambridge)

Siddharth S Saxena (Cambridge)

Yingfeng Ji (Sussex)