Harry Ewart-Biggs
- Email: bddh0269@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Investigating ownership and governance of essential provisioning systems for an environmentally sustainable future
- Supervisors: Dr Richard Bärnthaler, Professor Milena Büchs, Dr Diana Ivanova
Profile
I am a first-year ESRC WRDTP-funded PhD researcher, with a background in third sector and parliamentary research and campaigning, and tenant organising.
My research explores how ownership and governance structures of essential provisioning systems in the Global North can support efforts towards a truly just transition. While there is strong cross-sector evidence on the socio-economic impacts of different patterns of ownership and control, this project examines environmental outcomes. It will compare how ranging collective, private and regulatory models influence greenhouse gas emissions, resource use and environmentally sustainable practice in care and utility sectors, and analyse factors such as state involvement and democratisation.
Research interests
eco-social policy; universal basic services; sustainable welfare; ecological economics; political economy; global climate justice
Qualifications
- MSc Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
- BSc Zoology
Research groups and institutes
- Sustainability Research Institute
- Economics and Policy for Sustainability