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Clean and Just Transitions

Our research is focused on delivering a clean, just and socially inclusive energy transition. We take an integrated approach to the social and material conditions for changing energy practices, continually striving to understand how energy system transitions affect different groups to ensure that no one is left behind. 

Current Projects:

  • Inclusive Decarbonisation and Energy Transition
  • EDI+ Research and Innovation Network+ for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Energy Research Community
  • Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique (CESET)
  • Coordinating Global Coal Transitions Research

Completed Projects:

  • Modern Energy Cooking Services Programme
  • Interdisciplinary Cluster on Energy Systems, Equity and Vulnerability (InCluESEV)
  • Pathways to Sustainability in Postindustrial Cities of the Global South
  • Addressing Energy Vulnerability in Haringey Borough Council
  • WindAfrica

Just Transition Researchers 

Staff Research Expertise
Simone Abram Energy futures and infrastructures, energy systems integration, socially inclusive energy transitions
Chima Anyadike-Danes Anthropology of energy and technology, social aspects of energy transitions and decarbonisation, post coal communities, cultural anthropology
Smith Azubuike Energy justice and transition, energy law and sustainability, risk allocation in the energy sector
Kim Bouwer Energy and climate law, climate litigation and activism, climate litigation and justice in Africa
Ben Campbell Conservation and social justice, low carbon energy for development, environmental anthropology and low carbon transitions
Pauline Destree Energy politics, cultures and practices, energy transitions and decarbonisation, international development 
Sarah Knuth Clean energy transition, critical geographies of climate change, finance and the green economy
Jessica Lehmann International environmental politics, geographies of the ocean, cultural economy of unconventional resource extraction, social science and humanistic theories of environmental change
Marcus Power Energy geographies and low carbon transitions, energy statecraft, resource diplomacy and infrastructural geographies
Felix Ringel Socio-cultural reproductions of changes in energy regimes, urban sustainability, post industrial urban regeneration