Adrian Finch specialises in critical element deposits in rift-related magmatism; how to find them, how they form and how they are modified by late-stage fluids. He is particularly involved in reconstructing the three-dimensional shape of the ore body and determining...
Ewan Gibbs lectures in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. He is a scholar of work and labour with a focus on historical political economy and energy sectors. From 2022-2024, Ewan will be completing a BA-Wolfson fellowship, ‘Decarbonising the...
Valeriya Klementyeva is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Valeriya holds a BA in European Studies and an MSc in Globalisation and Sustainable Development as well as an MA in Linguistics and Translation.
Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and former Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne. Before moving to Switzerland in 2014, he held teaching positions at George Mason University,...
Dr Itay Noy is a social anthropologist interested in the interaction between energy extractive projects and local rural populations. Based on long-term fieldwork, his research is concerned with the variegated impact of coal mining operations on Adivasi (tribal)...
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...
Shona Russell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests are three-fold: the contribution of accounting to sustainability, accountability in water governance, and more recently, science-business...
Anna-Sophie is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) since September 2020. Her research focuses on the emerging lithium-ion battery industry and its role in creating futures in Norway. Ethnographic fieldwork in places where battery...
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...
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.