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February 2025

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Synthetic Forever: White Suits, Fatbergs, and the Breathing Museum
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Global Fellow Lecture with Prof Kirsty Robertson At the Museum of London, a fatberg, pulled from the sewers below Whitechapel, sits in a plexiglass case, off gassing, breathing. Made of congealed masses of flushed fats, polyester wet wipes, desiccated insect and worm carcasses, antibiotics, drugs, and other waste mater , ...
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Energy Cafe – The Unjust Transition at Grangemouth Oil Refinery: Workers’ Perspectives
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Hosted by Dr Ewan Gibbs and Riyoko Shibe Fossil fuel workers are central protagonists in achieving a ‘just transition’ to a greener and fairer economy, which is increasingly influential in policymaking and social science perspectives. This seminar paper examines workforce attitudes towards redundancy and restructuring , ...
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Energy Cafe: Whose transition? Weighing up the costs and benefits of critical raw material extraction
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Speakers Emma Wilson, ECW Energy Ltd (UK) and Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI Gerti Saxinger, Uni Vienna (AT) and Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI   Abstract The term ‘Just Transition’ assumes that society is united around a global project to reduce carbon emissions. In practice, however, the notions , ...
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