- Location
- Zoom
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event
- Dates
- February 11, 2022 from 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Transitioning and transforming our energy systems to meet ‘net-zero’ carbon emissions targets presents a variety of challenges for public health. Among them are energy (in)security and the health and environmental effects of new energy technologies. Governing, too, presents a challenge. In our uneven, ‘post-truth’ world, marked by growing distrust in public institutions, datafication, and demands for more openness, transparency and participation, how do consequential decisions get made? And with what effects? I explore these questions in the context of an ongoing ethnographic study of shale gas extraction and energy transitions in England.
Bio: Lisa Sanders is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social & Behavioural Health Sciences, DLSPH. She trained as a public health physician in the UK and holds a MSc and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her current research is situated in Anthropology and is broadly concerned with energy transitions, science, expertise and public policy.
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