Calling All Geography Enthusiasts to Join Us at the RGS-IBG Energy Geography Research Group Webinar Series 2026 !
- engrgrgs
- 6 days ago
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We’re thrilled to announce our 2026 webinar series titled “Energy (in)justice”.
Date and Location: The webinar series will take place online across April and May 2026, featuring a total of six wonderful academics and researchers from across continents.
About the Webinar series: This webinar series provides a platform for academic exchange and dialogue between scholarship and practice. It aims to foster critical engagement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the co-production of knowledge to address contemporary energy challenges. The webinar series aims to make a significant contribution to cross-cutting energy geography research on the inequalities and injustices associated with energy infrastructures and energy practices. We focus on broad definitions of inequalities, injustice, energy infrastructures and energy practices, to open up opportunities to engage with a wider range of perspectives on these topics.
Impact and Engagement of the Webinar: Since energy geography research is an evolving area of research, it connects to wider Geographical topics and approaches. This includes concepts such as space, place, scale alongside other theoretical underpinnings ranging from energy justice scholarship, political ecology, capability approach, energy governance in different regional contexts, decolonising knowledge and advancing justice dimensions in different geographical contexts.
Some of the debates /key themes that we would like to bring forward, but not limited to are:
How do power dynamics inform energy injustices? What relationships and structures inform, contribute towards, and perpetuate injustices and inequalities within the energy space? How power and politics form a narrative of energy developments across geographies of place?
What impact does language have on energy injustices? How does terminology and its use by different stakeholders impact experiences and practices?
In what ways do energy injustices differ spatially? And in what way do terminologies and understandings of concepts such as inequality and injustice vary spatially? What factors influence the nature of how energy injustices and inequalities present?
How can we conceptualise and think about (in)justice? Where do calls for (in)justice originate from (and how can geographers draw on different approaches to thinking about (in)justice - from pragmatist to idealist approaches)?
This is your chance to share your ideas, meet like-minded researchers or hear from different perspectives, and become part of the Energy Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG community, shaping the future of geography.
Our speakers
Wednesday 15th April,10-11am
Energy justice of sociotechnical imaginaries of light and life in the bush
Anna Cain, UNSW Sydney
Register to attend here: Anna Cain Webinar
Wednesday 29th April, 1-2pm
Energy justice and democratic deficits: The energy transition under far-right governance
Dr Noemi Gonda, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Register to attend here: Noemi Gonda Webinar
Thursday 7th May, 1-2pm
Exploring the impacts of non-energy spheres of governance upon energy deprivation outcomes for refugees living in England
Manon Burbidge, The University of Manchester
Register to attend here: Manon Burbidge Webinar
Monday 11th May, 1-2pm
Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
Dr Joanna Allan, Northumbria University
Register to attend here: Joanna Allan Webinar
Monday 18th May
'Backcasting', intergenerational justice and place-based transitions
Prof Matthew Cotton, Teeside University
Register to attend here: Matthew Cotton Webinar
Tuesday 26th May
A human-centric approach to energy justice: Embedding agency and capabilities in transitions discourse
Dr Stuti Haldar, Lund University
Register to attend here: Stuti Haldar Webinar
