All good things come to an end. After three years, it is finally time for me to step down as chair of the Energy Geographies Research Group. It has been an exciting ride - we have achieved a lot in these three years. We have relaunched our website, started a YouTube channel and a LinkedIn group, developed regular cross-research-group webinar series, held annual undergraduate dissertation awards, and launched a new postgraduate writing award. We have also organised mentoring sessions, facilitated skills development seminars, hosted many paper sessions at the RGS-IBG's annual and mid-term conferences, and put on workshops for sharing research findings and approaches. In short, we have become an active and exciting home for geographical energy scholarship.
These events have all been thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers who have worked incredibly hard (on top of full-time jobs) to create supportive and creative spaces for promoting geographical approaches to energy research, sharing and platforming research, and supporting scholars to develop new skills and opportunities. Thanks should go in particular to Rosie Robison, Imogen Rattle, Alice Garvey, Kate Scott, Joe Lawley, Ami Crowther, Pip Winship, Helena Hastie, Jess Britton, Sarah Knuth, Komali Yenneti, Raihana Ferdous, Elspeth Opperman, Yue Guo, Jozsef Kadar, Pascale Blythe, Chang Wang, Josh Lait, Yuan Feng, Kene Onukwube, and Gabriel Bonnamy. You have all been great.
Our next steps look set to be exciting too. A new, larger, and more diverse executive committee for 2023/24 will enable us to establish new events and activities, reach wider audiences, and maintain all of our existing initiatives. More news on on these activities will shortly come from our new chair, Catherine Butler. We do hope to continue to reach beyond epistemic confines though; to create new opportunities for conversation within and beyond the academy, and to find ways to better speak across linguistic and cultural divides. I look forward to participating in these conversations with you.
Peter Forman (Chair 2020 - 2023)
Executive Committee 2023/24
Position | Name | Term Duration |
Chair | Dr. Catherine Butler (Exeter University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2026 |
Secretary | Dr. Rachel Macrorie (Sheffield University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2026 |
Treasurer | Dr. Ami Crowther (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2026 |
Communications Officer (Website) | Joshua Lait (Exeter University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Communications Officer (Social Media) | Chang Wang (Fudan University, China) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Communications Officer (Mailing List) | Kene Onukwube (Solidaridad West Africa, Nigeria) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Awards Co-ordinator (Undergraduate) | Helena Hastie (Exeter University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Awards Co-ordinator (Postgraduate) | Dr. Jess Britton (Edinburgh University, UK) | Sept. 2021 - 2024 |
Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity Officer | Dr. Raihana Ferdous (Nottingham Trent University, UK) | Sept. 2021 - 2024 |
Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity Officer | Yue Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity Officer | Jozsef Kadar | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Early Career Researcher Representative | Dr. Pascale Blythe (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) | Sept. 2021 - 2024 |
Early Career Researcher Representative | Dr. Kurtulus Deger (Agricultural and Rural Development Support Institution, Turkey) | Sept. 2023 - 2026 |
Postgraduate Researcher Representative | Yuan Feng (Aston University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Postgraduate Researcher Representative | Nivedita Singh (University of Delhi, India) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Postgraduate Researcher Representative | Leonard Schliesser (Durham University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Postgraduate Researcher Representative | Katharina Oemmelen (UCL, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
Postgraduate Researcher Representative | Penlope Yaguma (Edinburgh University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
General Committee Member | Laure-Anne Pluhmans (Centre for Social Innovation, Belgium) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
General Committee Member | Prof. Rosie Robison (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
General Committee Member | Dr. Peter Forman (Northumbria University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
General Committee Member | Dr. Elspeth Oppermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
General Committee Member | Dr. Ankit Kumar (Sheffield University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
General Committee Member | Dr. Lise Desvallees (École des Ponts ParisTech, France) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |
General Committee Member | Dr. Mengyao Han (Cambridge University, UK) | Sept. 2023 - 2024 |