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Bregje van Veelen is a Visiting Researcher from the Lund University Centre of Sustainability Studies in Sweden, where she is employed as an Assistant Professor. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and prior to moving to Sweden she also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the geography department at Durham University in the UK.

Her research falls within the broad area of Climate Change and Society, with a focus on how social dynamics shape the outcomes of low-carbon transitions. This means she is interested in how social interactions (such as participatory processes, culture and norms) and forms of organising influence in the implementation of low-carbon transitions. Additionally, she is interested in the social impact of transitions and how low-carbon transitions can contribute to the kind of society we want to be. Underpinning all this is the understanding that there is more than one way to a low-carbon society, and she therefore asks how different pathways emerge, evolve, and to what effect. Her current research projects focus on what a ’just transition’ could look like in regions that have already phased out fossil fuel extraction and/or other high-carbon industries, or are expected do so in the future.