Canay Özden-Schilling is an anthropologist of technology and capitalism. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her first book, The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics, was...
Dr. Martin J. Pasqualetti is Co-Director of the Energy Policy Innovation (EPIC) at Arizona State University. He also holds positions as Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and Professor in the School of...
Michael Simpson completed his PhD in 2018 at the University of British Columbia. Prior to coming to St Andrews, he held concurrent postdoctoral positions at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. He has also held previous positions as...
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,...
Leyla’s two-year postdoctoral research project will explore the construction of ‘oil city’ narratives in Baku, Azerbaijan. The main research objectives are to examine the official and unofficial narratives of urban continuity based on oil production in their socio-cultural context; to explore the practices of collective remembering and forgetting in constructing the narratives of Baku as a historical center of oil production; and to explore how an urban identity based on oil affects the imagination of a post-oil future among these groups.
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.