To mark COP26 in Glasgow, Poetry and Power brings together three award-winning poets – Rebecca Sharp, John Bolland and Garry MacKenzie – to reflect on the intersection of Climate Change and Poetry.
Centre News
POwer to the People COp26 Roundtable
Centre Director Mette High was a speaker at the roundtable event “Power to the People: St Andrews’ journey to net-zero and the future of energy”, which took place on Thursday 28 October 2021. At the event, Dr High brought attention to Fuel Poverty in Scotland and the...
Mette High Named University of St Andrews Delegate to COP26
Between 31 October – 12 November 2021, Glasgow is to play host to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). As the University of St Andrews delegate, Dr High has been invited to attend the first week of the conference, which includes the World...
Africa@2050 Winners
In June, the Centre for Energy Ethics ran the inaugural Africa@2050 Climate Fiction Competition in conjunction with the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies (C3SS) at the University of Ghana. It is our pleasure to announce the winners of our Africa@2050 Climate-Fiction Competition!
Centre Welcomes New Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr Itay Noy
We are thrilled to announce that Dr Itay Noy will be joining us from 1 October as the inaugural Centre for Energy Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow. Funded by The Gabrione Family, the Fellowship is a 1-year award offered to an outstanding early career researcher working on issues of energy ethics in the arts, humanities, social or natural sciences.
The Art of Energy – Call for Composers winners announced
In response to our call, we received 152 submissions from not only across the UK but all over the world!
We are delighted to announce that after a long and careful deliberation, the panel has selected the winners of the The Art of Energy – Call for Composers.
New book from Nick Bainton and Emilka Skrzypek
The unstable and often dialectical relationship between the presence and absence of the state in a resource extraction context is examined in a newly released book edited by Nick Bainton and Emilka Skrzypek: The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects.
Amazon found destroying unsold stock – would better accounting practices help?
An article written by Centre Member, Dr Lucy Wishart from the School of Management, following an investigation on an Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline, Scotland, where it was reported that more than 130,000 new and unused items were destroyed.
3MPlanet winners announced
We received a high number of excellent entries for the 3MPlanet Competition and were impressed with the quality of research done by our students, and their ability to communicate the importance of their topics to the general public.
‘The Anthropology of Energy’ Module awarded ‘Golden Dandelion’ Prize
A new Honours-level module curated and taught by a Centre for Energy Ethics team has been awarded a ‘Golden Dandelion’ prize for excellence in education for sustainable development.