The urgency, emergency, and necessity of low-carbon transitions is a given in most regions of the world. But low-carbon innovations, technologies, practices and policies can unintentionally exacerbate a series of inequities and inequalities with energy production and...
ETROD is back for the new year beginning Thursday 18th January 2024, 4:00 pm sharp, CET. with Stuart Kirsch’s talk: “Innovation, Adoption, and Resistance to New Technology and Materials: Concrete and the Postcarbon Transition”.
The Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus, invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral research fellow funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. The successful candidate will work...
The Research Fellow will be part of a vibrant and agile team and help coordinate activities and operations for the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Sustainability Transitions. The Fellow will be crucial in a research program that will partner with marginalized communities in Toronto and other cities globally to catalyze the development of community-engaged and context-relevant approaches to just and equitable sustainability transitions. Closing date: 20 January 2024
This open panel explores what is being called “the nuclear U-turn”: the recent move by states, activists, industry, and others towards backing nuclear energy as a mainstream solution to our current energy predicament. With some climate activists vocally supporting...
The Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina is recruiting for a funded graduate research assistantship position at the PhD level. The areas of interest of the prospective student should align with the fields of environmental justice, climate...
After several successful installments, the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen will host its yearly Winter School, aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate students and early-stage graduate students. Registration deadline: January 5th, 2024.
The Centre for Energy Policy is looking for an experienced and dynamic business development professional to join our rapidly expanding impact focused and policy-facing research centre. Closing date: 07 January 2024.
Marco Sonnberger, Maria Pfeiffer, Alenna Bleicher, and Matthias Gross invite submissions for their panel during STS Conference 2024, Graz, 6 - 8 May. You can find their panel description below. Modern societies are systematically exploiting renewable energy sources on...
Topic: Anthropology / Energy Reading Group Time: Dec 7, 2023 04:30 PM CET Grosse, C. (2022) Working Across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction. University of California Press. How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy...