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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 – April 2024

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

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

Evensen D, Sovacool B. 2024. Political economy of low-carbon electricity: Governance effects across 198 countries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 189, 114016.

Sovacool B, Evensen D, Baum C, Fritz L, Low S. 2024. The demographics of public preferences for ten carbon removal and solar geoengineering interventions in 30 countries. Communications Earth & Environment.

Whitmarsh L, Gan Y-S, Devine-Wright P, Evensen D, Dickie J, Cotton I, Varley A, Ryder S, Bartie P. 2024. Who is the ‘public’ when it comes to public opinion on energy? A mixed-methods study of revealed and elicited public attitudes to shale gas extraction. Energy Research & Social Science.

Dixon G, Hart S, Clarke C, Evensen D, Jacquet J. 2024. The complexity of pluralistic ignorance in Republican climate policy support. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 76.

Li G, Evensen D, Stedman R. 2024. COVID-19’s effects on sense of place, pro-environmental behaviour in Wuhan. Geographical Research. 

Ferguson L, Ferguson M, Rodrigues K, Evensen D, Caraynoff A, Persson K, Porter J, Eisenhaure S. 2024. The role of health and wellbeing in shaping local park experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 46, 100739.

Ferguson M, Robinson T, Ferguson L, Evensen D, Schwartz F, Gonyo S, Freitag A. 2024. Cultivating commitment: How cultural ecosystem services affect visitor loyalty attitudes and intention to return to parks and protected areas. Ecosystems and People, 20, 2297560.

Evensen D, Whitmarsh L, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Bartie P, Foad C, Bradshaw M, Ryder S, Mayer A, Varley A. 2023. Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas. Nature Climate Change, 13, 240-243. 

Evensen D, Warren G, Bouder F. 2023. Satisfaction with governmental risk communication both increases and decreases COVID-19 mitigation behaviours. International Journal of Public Health, 68, 1604966.

Sørensen M, Evensen D. 2023. Framing the Covid-19 pandemic: A comparative analysis of Swedish and Danish crisis communication. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 31, 960-967.

Clarke C, Evensen D. 2023. Attention to news media coverage of unconventional oil/gas development impacts: Exploring psychological antecedents and effects on issue support. Energy Policy, 173, 113355.

Sovacool B, Evensen D, Kwan T, Petit V. 2023. Building a green future: Examining the job creation potential of electricity, heating, and storage in low-carbon buildings. The Electricity Journal. 

Ferguson M, Lynch M, Evensen D, Ferguson L, Barcelona R, Giles G. 2023. 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, 100498.

Bartie P, Varley A, Dickie J, Evensen D, Devine-Wright P, Ryder S, Whitmarsh L, Foad C. 2023. Great Britain’s spatial twitter activity related to ‘fracking’. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 103, 101978.

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, 12, 101176.

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, 67, 1604970.

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. 

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.

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[£1.03 million in personally-managed external grants; with an additional £304,000 in fellowship funding]    

• 2023-2024 £153,000 (PI); British Geological Survey and Natural Environment Research Council; ‘Social baseline study for Carbon Storage Research Facility Project’
• 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’)
• 2022-2023 $196,000; Co-Investigator responsible for $78,000; United Arab Emirates Ministry of the Interior; ‘Surveying Electric Vehicle Adoption and Acceptance in the UAE’
• 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)

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

• 2019 – present   Advising: 5 PhD students, 29 MSc students
• 2020 – present   Supervision: 1 postdoc, 4 MSc-level research assistants
• 2015 – present   7 peer-reviewed academic journal articles co-authored with BA and MSc students (all seven 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 three 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); 4 years
• Global Environment: Key Issues (PG, taught unit on ‘global environmental politics’); 4 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
• Science, Nature and Environment (UG, taught ‘environmental social movements’ unit); 4 years
• Politics in a Changing World (UG, course organiser and taught ‘politics of energy’ unit); 3 years

• 2024 – present     Associate Editor, Energy Research and Social Science
• 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.

• 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