Prof. Darrick Evensen

Prof. Darrick EvensenProf. Darrick EvensenProf. Darrick Evensen

Prof. Darrick Evensen

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Academic positions

  

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

   ‘Senior Lecturer’ (UK term for ‘tenured associate professor’), Aug 2022 – present 

   ‘Lecturer’ (UK term for ‘tenure-track assistant professor’), Sept 2018 – Aug 2022 

   Environmental Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations


Boston University, Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

   Senior Research Scientist, April 2022 – present 


Cardiff University, School of Psychology, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

   Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Commission) Research Fellow, Oct 2016 – Sept 2018

   Postdoctoral Research Associate, July 2015 – September 2016


Oberlin College, Environmental Studies Department, Oberlin, Ohio, United States 

   Visiting Assistant Professor, July 2014 – June 2015


Education

  

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 

   Ph.D., Natural Resources, August 2014

   M.S., Natural Resources, 2011


Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 

   A.B. cum laude, Public Policy and International Affairs, 2006


Selected recent publications (2021-2022)

Evensen D, Varley A, Whitmarsh L, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Bartie P, Napier H, Mosca I, Foad C, Ryder S. 2022. Effect of linguistic framing and information provision on attitudes towards induced seismicity and seismicity regulation. Scientific Reports, 12, 11239. 


Evensen D. 2022. Public perceptions of carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS). Oxford Energy Forum, 130, 21-24. 


Evensen D, Graham G. 2022. The irreplaceable value of air travel to in-person conferences. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 83, 101880.


Bradshaw M, Devine-Wright P, Evensen D, King O, Martin A, Ryder S, Short D, Sovacool B, Stretesky P, Szolucha A, Williams L. 2022. ‘We’re going all out for shale’: Explaining shale gas failure in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 168, 113132.


Theodori G, Wynveen B, Evensen D, Measham T. 2022. A Systematic Quantitative Review of the Perceived Environmental and Natural Resource-Related Impacts of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development. The Extractive Industries and Society.


Mahdavian F, Warren G, Evensen D, Bouder F. 2022. The relationship between barriers and drivers of COVID-19 protective behaviors in Germany and the UK. International Journal of Public Health.  DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604970 


Ferguson M, Lynch M, Evensen D, Ferguson L, Barcelona R, Giles G. 2022. The nature of the pandemic: Negative impacts of COVID-19 upon recreation visitor experiences in parks and protected areas. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2022.100498


Ferguson M, Giles G, Ferguson L, Barcelona R, Evensen D, Barrows C, Leberman M. 2022. Seeing the forest for the trees: A social-ecological systems approach to managing outdoor recreation visitation in parks and protected areas. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 38, 100473.


Ferguson M, Caraynoff A, Ferguson L, Barcelona R, Evensen D, Knox H, Pytlik S, Grosz D. 2022. Whether They Return: Modeling Outdoor Recreation Behaviors, Decision-making, and Intention-to-return in Congressionally Designated Wilderness. Forests, 13, 1018.


Evensen D, Whitmarsh L, Bartie P, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Varley A, Ryder S, Mayer A. 2021. Effect of ‘finite pool of worry’ and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 118, e2018936118. 

(This research was covered on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland (radio), Reporting Scotland (TV), and in over 15 UK newspapers – e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-9274271/Concerns-environment-unchanged-pandemic-study-suggests.html)


MacEwen M, Evensen D. 2021. Mind the gap: Accounting for gender in energy democracy in Kenya. Energy Research and Social Science, 71, 1018g43.


Ferguson M, Evensen D, Ferguson L, Bidwell D, Firestone J, Dooley T, Mitchell C. 2021. Uncharted waters: Exploring coastal recreation impacts, coping behaviors, and attitudes towards offshore wind energy development in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science 75, 102029.


Luke H, Evensen D. 2021. After the dust settles: Community resilience legacies of unconventional gas development. The Extractive Industries and Society 8, 100856.

  

Sarmadi M, Rahimi S, Evensen D, Moghaddam V. 2021. Interaction between meteorological parameters and Covid-19: An ecological study of 406 authorities of the UK. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, 67082–67097.


Devine-Wright P, Ryder S, Dickie J, Evensen D, Varley A, Whitmarsh L, Bartie P. 2021. Induced seismicity or political ploy? Using a novel mix of methods to identify multiple publics and track responses over time to shale gas policy change. Energy Research and Social Science 81, 102247.

Full list of publications...

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External grants (principal investigator or co-investigator)

  

  • 2022-2027; £3,650,000; Natural Environment Research Council (UKRI); Co-Investigator, responsible for £373,000 (NERC Large Grant: ‘Hydro-Mechanics of Fluid-Induced Seismicity in the Context of the Green-Energy Transition’)
  • 2022-2024; 2,000,000 €; European Commission (Horizon Europe); Co-Investigator, responsible for 32,000 € (Zero Emission Network to facilitate CCUS uptake in industrial clusters)
  • 2021-2022; £67,000; Royal Society of Edinburgh Sabbatical Grant; PI (Scotland’s influence on UNFCCC COP26: The role of a devolved nation) 
  • 2021-2022; £87,000; Natural Environment Research Council (UKRI); PI (Shake, quake or fake? Comparing expected intensity modelling, felt reports, Tweets, and public perceptions)
  • 2020-2022; £397,000; Norwegian Research Council; Co-Investigator, responsible for £36,000(Fighting pandemics with enhanced risk communication: Messages, compliance and vulnerability during the COVID-19 outbreak)
  • 2018-2022; £641,000; Economic and Social Research Council (UKRI); Co-Investigator, responsible for £172,000 (Spatial and temporal understanding of public attitudes and community responses towards shale gas)
  • 2018-2021; European Commission; Co-Investigator, responsible for £31,000 (Subsurface evaluation of carbon capture and storage and unconventional risk)


Individual International/National Fellowships:


  • 2020-2021; Scottish Parliament Academic Fellowship (£5,000 for research; non-stipendiary) 
  • 2016-2019; Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Commission) Fellowship (£203,000)
  • 2012-2014; EPA STAR Graduate Student Fellowship ($126,000)
  • 2008-2009; Doris Duke Conservation Leadership Fellowship ($25,000)


Teaching / Advising / Mentoring

  

Supervision and mentoring of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research assistants


  • 2019 – present   Advising: 4 PhD students, 17 MSc students
  • 2020 – present   Supervision: 1 postdoc, 4 MSc-level research assistants
  • 2015 – present   6 peer-reviewed academic journal articles co-authored with BA and MSc students (all six with a student as the lead author)


External / Internal examination of PhD candidates (in nations where it is not PhD advisors, but rather independent scholars in the field, who conduct the final examination of the candidate)


  • 2020 – present   UK – two internal examinations (meaning a student at one’s university) and one external examination (meaning a student at a different university)
  • 2016 – present   Australia – two external examinations


University of Edinburgh, teaching

**UG = undergraduate course, PG = postgraduate (MSc level) course


  • Environmental Risks: Communication, Ethics, and Politics (PG, sole instructor); 2 years
  • Global Environment: Key Issues (PG, taught unit on ‘global environmental politics’); 3 years
  • Global Environmental Politics (taught unit on ‘civil society non-state actors’); 2 years
  • Environmental Politics in Europe (taught unit on ‘governing environmental risk’); 1 year
  • Intro. to Sustainable Development 1 (UG, taught ‘international governance and sustainable development’ unit); 2 years 
  • Intro. to Sustainable Development 2 (taught ‘governance and environmental justice’ unit); 3 years
  • Politics in a Changing World (UG, course organiser and taught ‘politics of energy’ unit); 3 years


Editorial experience - Academic journals

  • 2019 – present    Editorial Board, Energy Research and Social Science
  • 2019 – present    Editorial Board, Society and Natural Resources
  • 2018                    Guest editor of special issue in The Extractive Industries and Society on

                                         ‘Social aspects of unconventional hydrocarbon development globally’; 29 

                                         articles.

University governance experience

  • Trustee, Cornell University Board of Trustees, 2010-2014
  • Representative, University of Edinburgh Senatus Academicus, 2019-present
  • Chair, Cardiff University Research Staff Association, 2017-2018
  • President, Cornell University Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, 2009-2010

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