Roya is a cultural analysis specialized in petroculture studies with a focus on Iran and the Persian Gulf. She received her first MA in postcolonial literature at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and her second MA in Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University,...
Dr Lethy K J is a UKRI-Future Leaders Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK. Currently, she is establishing the Energy Harvesting Research Group at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. While a Post-doctoral fellow at KAUST she expanded...
Andreas works as an industrial postdoc at the IT University of Copenhagen and Kvantify, where he is developing applications of quantum technology. Before this, he completed a binational PhD project at the University of St Andrews and the University of Luxembourg,...
Lorenzo is a doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews, affiliated with the Centre for Energy Ethics. He holds a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from La Sapienza University of Rome and has prior experience conducting ethnographic fieldwork...
Lydia is a Conservation Ecologist with a keen interest in how tropical ecosystems can be managed sustainably in the face of agricultural expansion and the other pervasive impacts of population growth and globalisation. She is particularly interested in peat-scapes, and how they can be responsibly managed through an understanding of their unique hydrological requirements. Her past projects include, spanning time in both academia and industry: creating a mapping and monitoring system for peatlands in the UK, Malaysia and Indonesia; reconstructing past vegetation change and assessing future prospects for the coastal peatlands of Malaysian Borneo; exploring the dynamics of human-wildlife interaction in northeast India; and training Government, research and NGO partners in Ghana, Indonesia and Malaysia on the use of a decision support tool for restoring connectivity in landscapes for biodiversity under climate change. She is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ecology on a two year Leverhulme Trust-funded project entitled: Valuing intact tropical peatlands – an interdisciplinary challenge. She is also the Chair of the Conservation Ecology Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society and coordinates the Expert Group on Peatlands and Biodiversity on the International Peatland Society’s Scientific Advisory Board.
Russell Fielding is an Assistant Professor in the HTC Honors College at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, USA. He received his Ph.D. in geography from Louisiana State University with a cognate focus in oceanography. Fielding’s scholarship investigates how...
Sean’s three-year post-doctoral research project aims to study how energy analysts, financial specialists, traders, portfolio managers and investment professionals conceptualize and value oil.
Sarah’s four-year doctoral research focuses on the local realities of an energy transition in the UK in the context of climate change. More particularly, she is interested in the knowledge put forward by grassroots activists campaigning against unconventional gas extraction.
Pauline’s three-year postdoctoral research project looks at the value of oil and alternative renewable energy sources in Ghana, a country that positions itself as an energy frontier for rethinking the relationship between hydrocarbon dependency and more sustainable energy futures in a context of environmental crisis.