Dr David Ockwell is Reader in Geography at the University of Sussex and Deputy Director of Research in the ESRC STEPS Centre (where he also co-convenes the Centre’s climate and energy research domain and its Africa Sustainability Hub). He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Sussex Energy Group and a Fellow of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. David sits on the board of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network.

LATEST BOOK: Sustainable Energy for All: Innovation, technology and pro-poor green transformations
Chapters 1 and 6 free (open access) here: http://steps-centre.org/publication/sustainable-energy-for-all-innovation-technology-and-pro-poor-green-transformations/

LATEST PAPER (open access): Beyond technology and finance: pay-as-you-go sustainable energy access and theories of social change http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X15615368

Experience

  • –present
    Reader in Geography, The Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex

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