Tristam Barrett, Ph.D. (Cantab)

• sustainability transformations and transformative capacity
• systems thinking (social ecological systems and socio-technical systems)
• economic and political anthropology
• post-socialist societies
• energy transitions
• qualitative research methods

Since 2020

Research Associate, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)

2019

Consultant Anthropologist to United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Facility Kura II
Project: Advancing Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) across the Kura River Basin

2016-2019

Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Department 'Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia'
Project: Financialisation and Social Reproduction in Baku, Azerbaijan

2015-2016

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Reading
Project: Climate Change, Water Resources and Food Security in Kazakhstan

 

2016

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology
Thesis title: Political Economy and Social Transformation in Baku, Azerbaijan

2008

Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Social Anthropological Analysis
University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology
Thesis title: Civil Society Development in post-Dayton Bosnia-Hercegovina

2007

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in European Social and Political Studies
University College London & Université de Paris V (René Descartes)

 

ENTRANCES - ENergy TRANsitions from Coal and carbon: Effects on Societies (EU Horizon 2020)

2021

Gast-Dozent: Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung
Hochschule Zittau-Görlitz

2019

Dozent: Soviet and Post-Soviet Political Economy and Society
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

2015–2016

Teaching Assistant: Introduction to History, Law, Philosophy and Politics
University College London

2011–2013

Supervisor: Theory and Methods in Anthropology, Political Economy and Social Transformations, Anthropology of Cities and Space, Anthropology of Colonialism and Empire, Study Skills (for students with learning disabilities)
Various Colleges at University of Cambridge

 

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