About this speaker
Marie Claire Brisbois is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at SPRU, Co-Director of the Sussex Energy Group, and a Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project. Her work examines questions of power, politics and influence in energy, water and climate governance contexts. She also works on broader issues of social change and public participation in low carbon transitions. Marie Claire is a Co-Investigator on the Governance theme for the UK Energy Demand Research Centre (2023-2028). She also is the Sussex lead on the H2020 CINTRAN (Carbon Intensive Regions in Transition - Unravelling the Challenges of Structural Change) project examining the coping strategies of people experiencing direct impacts of coal phase outs, and how elite power plays out in these contexts (2020-2024).