PhD Student, Department of Management, Business School
Biography
Heather Cameron is a doctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews Business School, specialising in ethnographic research and working at the intersection of the interdisciplinary research fields of circular economy and discard studies. She will conduct original ethnographic research with reuse and repair organisations in Scotland to examine how they practice circularity, the challenges they face and how they overcome them, and to what extent their practices are ‘place-based’. She understands reuse and repair organisations in Scotland as critical to the delivery of a just transition to a circular economy and implicated in systems of care critical to resilient and sustainable communities.
Heather holds an MRes in Social Anthropology (Distinction) from the University of St Andrews, where her ethnographic research examined professionals’ experiences working within Scotland’s Net Zero transition. She gained her BA in Social Anthropology (Double First Class Honours) from the University of Cambridge, where her ethnographic research examined a Scottish community garden’s cultivation of community, biodiversity, and wellbeing. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges management and anthropology, focusing on how local, everyday actions contribute to large-scale environmental transitions.
Heather is committed to learn how to design and translate her research to have an impact beyond the academy. She has completed engagement training with the Scottish Policy and Research Exchange (SPRE) and the Centre for Energy Ethics. She seeks opportunities to participate in international academic knowledge exchange, including as a co-convener of the 23rd International Studying Leadership Conference and the Europaeum Spring School in Madrid.
