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Jamie Cross joined the University of Glasgow as a Professor in the School of Social and Political Science in 2024. He serves as the Academic Director for the Glasgow Changing Futures initiative, which focuses on developing new knowledge-based mechanisms to address global challenges. His research interests as a social anthropologist center on climate change adaptation and mitigation. Cross has conducted projects that explore market-based approaches to socio-economic transformation and the material politics of green entrepreneurship and sustainable technologies. He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary collaborations with engineers, geoscientists, and urban planners, as well as partnerships with visual artists and filmmakers. His prominent research has taken him to various countries, including India, Nepal, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania, supported by UK research councils and philanthropic trusts. Recently, he has worked on 'Cool Infrastructures', a multi-country research project addressing social-technical infrastructures for cooling in various contexts. Cross has published extensively in the fields of energy ethics and technology, investigating issues of power in impoverished regions and leading research programs on solar energy technologies. His teaching includes supervising PhD students in areas relevant to his research.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh, Scotland
Led the Social Economic Anthropology unit focusing on integrative research and teaching in the field.