Rate My Professor Simone Abram

Abram was Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen in 2017 and at the University of Paris 8 (Saint Denis) and LAVUE in 2013. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2017. Notable publications include 'Problem solving as selective blindness' in Critique of Anthropology (2024); 'Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation' in Climate Policy (2022); 'Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorising and Research' (2022); 'Promises of the past: transformations, transitions and traditions' (2023); and the co-edited Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Current projects encompass INCLUDE for socially-inclusive energy transitions, GEMS on geothermal energy from mines, ICHP on zero-carbon networks, REHIP for Teesside’s hydrogen economy, and ELEXIA for digitised energy integration. She served as Secretary to the organising committee of the World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Societies (2013) and Honorary Secretary of the Association of Social Anthropologists (2005-2010), and is a founding editor of ASAonline.