About

I am a social anthropologist whose work focuses on human-environment relations, climate change, resource extraction, and the energy transition. My research is grounded in long-term ethnographic engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration, and focuses in particular on Arctic regions, post-industrial landscapes in the UK, and the emerging infrastructures of decarbonisation in the UK and Europe.

I read sociology and social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and did my PhD at the University of Cambridge. I am Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Previously I held a Personal Chair in social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and have served as Finland Distinguished Professor at the Thule Institute, University of Oulu, and Professor of Climate and Society at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland and Greenland Climate Research Centre in Nuuk. I am a Senior Associate Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland, a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, and member of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. I was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008.