I am a sociocultural, ethnographic anthropologist, and hold a Ph.D. in applied anthropology from Columbia University in New York City. I study politics, economics, and value in the United States, and have done extensive field work on Catholic hermit monks,...
Aneil Tripathy is the Executive Projects Coordinator at CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center). He is also a research affiliate at MIT, a research associate at the University of Bologna, and a member of the Energy and Climate Finance network at University of St Andrews....
Eleonora graduated from a Social Anthropology Master’s of Research from St Andrews University in 2020, after taking an undergraduate degree in Clinical-Cognitive Psychology in Italy. She has always been interested in social dilemmas and issues, conducting...
Hannah’s research explores efforts to create ethical and ontological change in response to environmental breakdown, within the transnational Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement. Through fieldwork with XR activists in London and Madrid she focuses on the movement’s...
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...
Bridget Bradley is a social anthropologist whose research covers topics of mental health, kinship and community activism. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Britain; the United States; with online communities; health professionals and within support group...
Dr Patrick O'Hare is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (FLF) in the Department of Social Anthropology. His research interests centre on recycling economies in Latin America and include the themes of labour, waste, recycling, infrastructure, and plastics. He has conducted...
Dr Daniel M. Knight is Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has held positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Durham University...
Lorenzo Sapochetti is a Junior Associate at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), where he works on energy policy across Europe and globally, focusing on heat decarbonisation and energy affordability. His work connects social science research with policy...
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.