Research assistants
Tara Nair van Ryneveld
I am a recent graduate from the Lund University masters program in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, where my research was on the barriers within discourse that delay climate action and the shift away from coal based energy systems, with a focus on South Africa. Previously I have also worked in the field of international climate finance, with a focus on implementing community-based climate change adaptation projects. My research interests are in energy transitions and climate delay. In particular, I am interested in the impact of colonial history on our ability to imagine diverse alternative futures, and in decolonial, ecofeminist and degrowth perspectives on development and just energy transitions.
Ellen Lycke
I hold a master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Management from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp and have a former academic background in Architecture and Gender studies from Lund University. Main focus during my studies has been on transport issues and the role of mobility in creating fair and sustainable societies. I also nurture a special interest in discursive power and its connection to social inequalities in relation to the climate transition. Consequently, I find discourse analysis a good starting point for understanding today's societies and for figuring out how these can be changed.
Krisjanis Rudus
Krisjanis Rudus is a recent graduate from Lund University’s Master’s program in Human Ecology. He is mainly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to ensure just energy transition. His current research focuses on the investigation of public attitudes towards regulated solar technologies to further the knowledge of the potential gaps in energy justice among different household groups. He is also interested in using mixed methods (qualitative, quantitative) and tools, such as GIS, in fostering more sound and robust energy governance research. In 2021 Krisjanis begins doctoral studies in Norway on energy transitions at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (CULT), Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies, under NTNU.
Dominique Arsenault
I am a masters student in the Human Ecology: Culture, Power, and Sustainability program at Lund University, currently doing research on energy justice and the development of hydrogen-based fuels. Outside the academy, I am also a activist and organizer, which informs my approach to research. My interests lie in ecological Marxism and the possibilities of eco-social transformation, and the general focus of my work is the inequities and ecological harm produced by global systems of production and exchange. I am most interested in developing and working with understandings capitalism that are grounded in analyses of coloniality, gender, race, and ecology.