Dr Jacob Nielsen

Biography	I have a broad interdisciplinary social science research background that I have made use of working in public, commercial, and non-profit organisations in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Before joining RGU I gained some teaching experience as a social science lecturer for the foundation year at York St John University and as a graduate teaching assistant, I also taught at the University of Liverpool whilst taking my PhD in sociology.
Research Interests	My research examines how people and communities respond to and are impacted by policies and market initiatives that seek to address globally interconnected challenges. In my PhD, I used ethnographic methods to explore what impact modern slavery and labour exploitation policies had on precarious workers and how the workers themselves creatively sought to carve out more hopeful futures. In my current position as a research fellow for ConsenCUS an H2020 project on Carbon Capture technologies, I explore these issues in relation to how climate policies and technological innovations play out within local communities. I am also concerned with what role more collaborative, diverse, and non-hierarchical ways of organising could have in addressing climate change, inequality and other global challenges.

Biography

I have a broad interdisciplinary social science research background that I have made use of working in public, commercial, and non-profit organisations in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Before joining RGU I gained some teaching experience as a social science lecturer for the foundation year at York St John University and as a graduate teaching assistant, I also taught at the University of Liverpool whilst taking my PhD in sociology.

Research Interests

My research examines how people and communities respond to and are impacted by policies and market initiatives that seek to address globally interconnected challenges. In my PhD, I used ethnographic methods to explore what impact modern slavery and labour exploitation policies had on precarious workers and how the workers themselves creatively sought to carve out more hopeful futures. In my current position as a research fellow for ConsenCUS an H2020 project on Carbon Capture technologies, I explore these issues in relation to how climate policies and technological innovations play out within local communities. I am also concerned with what role more collaborative, diverse, and non-hierarchical ways of organising could have in addressing climate change, inequality and other global challenges.