PhD Researcher, UHI Shetland, Sustainability (SILK), University of the Highlands and Islands
Biography
Erin Rizzato Devlin is a researcher and investigative journalist based in Scotland and Sweden. She is Co-founder and Associate of Equitable Energy Research CIC, a not-for-profit created to help local communities in Scotland and beyond navigate the renewable energy sector with confidence.
She has earned an MA degree with Honours in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Glasgow with the final thesis ‘Powering Change: Sketches for a New Ethos in Energy Policy’, and a MSc in Investigative Journalism at the University of Gothenburg. She is currently engaged in a PhD in Sustainability (SILK) at UHI and member of Empowered Futures at NMBU.
Her current research focuses on the tensions between global and local understandings of sustainability in the Shetland Islands, with a focus on the role of local communities in the development of sustainable policy in ocean conservation and marine renewable energy.
Selected publications
1. Democratising and Judicialising: The Judicialisation of Politics.
Democracy & Society, on Truth and Information. Vol. 18 – 2021-2022, pp. 23-25.
2. Energy and Episteme: towards an ecology of knowledges.
Saperi Territorializzati, CISAV. Paesi in transizione e transizioni in paese, June 2023, pp. 52-55.
3. Powering Change: Sketches For A New Ethos in Energy Policy.
Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy and the Arts, vol. 4: eco-justice, 2024, pp. 1-32.
4. Many Worlds, One Earth: towards a diverse ethics of the commons.
Ethics and the Commons, Book chapter forthcoming in 2025
