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Environment, Energy, and Climate: Policy and Politics

Interdisciplinary social science for controversial environmental challenges

Environment, Energy, and Climate: Policy and Politics

Interdisciplinary social science for controversial environmental challenges

About me

Research

I examine public responses to environmental concerns (local, regional, global), climate governance, and factors constraining or facilitating renewable energy transitions. I employ a range of methodologies, including interviews, focus groups, deliberative workshops, mass media content analysis, discourse analysis, and participant observat

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Teaching

Research

I direct the MSc programme in Global Environment, Politics and Society at the University of Edinburgh and teach the core introductory environmental politics/governance course in this programme, as well as an MSc course in 'Environmental risk: Politics, Communication, and Ethics'. I contribute to undergraduate sustainable development courses with units on social movements, international governance, and environmental justice. I regularly guest lecture in Geosciences courses and courses on political data analysis.

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Outreach

Research

Outreach

I collaborate closely with a number of societal and policy-oriented stakeholders working on environment, energy, and climate issues. I have co-designed research with the British Geological Survey on multiple projects; I have advised the UK Environment Agency and UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. I held a fellowship to advise the Scottish Parliament on green recovery from COVID-19, and worked with the Welsh Government's decarbonisation team to research public visions of energy futures in Wales.

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