Professor Stefan Bouzarovski

Personal statement:

I am an academic researcher and policy advocate focused on energy, cities, social inequality and sustainability transformations. I am driven by a commitment to confront infrastructural and environmental injustices across the world, particularly the drivers and impacts of energy inequities in the context of climate mitigation and low-carbon urban governance.

My work centres on co-produced, interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research. I have collaborated closely with the European Union, World Bank, United Nations and International Energy Agency. To this end, I co-established and chaired the ENGAGER COST Action (2017-2021): the largest global network of energy justice experts, with 200+ members.

Key topic areas of research or interest:

I have explored energy regulation, urban inequality, household vulnerability and housing provision challenges across various European, Asian and African states, as well as the UK. I am interested in uncovering processes and policies of socio-environmental change that normally receive limited mainstream recognition: e.g. socially reproductive infrastructural labour, energy demand and transit, inner-city socio-demographic transformations. I am keen to challenge structural inequalities in knowledge production and public policy dynamics. This was central to the European Energy Poverty Observatory that I co-established and chaired from 2016, subsequently recognised as an ‘Ordinary Hero’ in the 2019 EU ‘Together we Protect’ Campaign.