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Speakers:

Dr Franziska Paul, Adam Smith Business School

‘Questions of Power and Ownership: The Political Economy of Sustainable Energy’

I am interested in questions of ownership and transformation (social, economic, political, environmental), with a focus on processes of de-privatisation and democratisation, and increasingly also climate/ transition finance. I am a qualitative social scientist with a background in human geography and have worked on topics of labour environmentalism, the politics of energy transition, community energy projects, and public, collective and worker ownership across a wide range of sectors and with a number of stakeholders, including workers, trade unions, local governments, and activist groups. Academically, I already share an interest in just transition with colleagues in law but am also interested to work with colleagues across the sciences and engineering going forward, e.g. on worker and community attitudes to new systems and technologies, alternative energy ownership models, skills development, and industrial strategy. 

 

Prof. Matt Brennan, School of Culture & Creative Arts

‘Dear Green Music Scene’

The Dear Green Music Scene project aims to music – as an industry, sector, and cultural scene - as a catalyst to research, communicate, and mobilize low-carbon behaviours - not simply for participants in the music sector, but for its related and higher-emitting infrastructures (e.g. transport, energy, manufacturing). The music sector may be a small overall contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (just 0.2% of overall UK emissions in 2019, ONS), yet it has an exponentially large influencing role, which we use to drive interdisciplinary impact for the city’s wider green transition ambitions. The project employs social research methods to better understand the perceptions of a range of music stakeholders (audiences, performers, businesses, charities, policymakers, and ancillary industries) concerning just and green transition. The anticipated benefits of this research include enhanced understanding of (a) the music listening behaviours of audiences with regard to material and energy consumption; and (b) music culture as a tool for public engagement on just and green transition projects.

 

First published: 18 September 2024

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