Hebin Qi

Email: h.qi.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Address: Adam Smith PGR Hub, Level 4, Adam Smith Buliding, 28 Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RS

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0673-215X

Research title: The Political Economy of Energy Transition in the Germany and the United Kingdom, from 1990 to the Present

Research Summary

Hebin Qi’s research will examine the policy, practice, and performance of the energy transition in the UK from 1990 to the present, adopting a multi-level perspective. 

Research Interest:

  • Global Political Economy
  • Climate Change and Energy Transition
  • Business, Environment, and Sustainability 
  • Technology Transfer

Supervisors

Grants

  • China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarship, 2023-2026

Conference

  • European Business History Association (EBHA) Doctoral Summer School, Institute for Mediterranean Studies-Foundation of Research and Technology, Rethymno, September 2024
  • Business History Beyond Boundaries: Fourth International PhD Summer School, University of Glasgow & University of Tübingen, Glasgow, July 2024
  • Summer Institute on the History of Economics, Duke University, Durham NC, June 2024
  • International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing, September 2023
  • Computational Social Science Summer Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, August 2023
  • European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) Policy Conference, European Commission, Brussels, June 2023
  • Royal Economic Society (RES) PhD Conference, Glasgow, June 2023
  • Text & Data Analysis Summer Institute, University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh, June 2023
  • All-Energy and Decarbonise Conference, Glasgow, May 2023

Additional Information

Hebin Qi is a Ph.D. candidate in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the Political Economy of Energy Transition in the UK and Germany from 1990 to the present. Hebin concurrently serves as a Research Assistant at Tsinghua University's Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy, where he analyzes the policies and practices of UK offshore wind and hydrogen.