Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Unfortunately, yes. Especially for Senior Lecturer & Professor positions. 110
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I'm going to guess it's a Swedish university? 110
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We found that the mix of nostalgia and technofuturism in visions for timber skyscrapers risks reproducing unequal access to environmental amenities, greenwashing, and accelerating material churn. But we also identified potential for more progressive movements for climate restoration & repair.doi.orgAn urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city - Bregje van Veelen, Sarah Knuth, 2024What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central ci... 040
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Yesterday The Guardian published a long read on mass timber skyscrapers. Three years ago Sarah Knuth and I published an academic analysis of this trend, identifying the key characteristics of this trend, and what is obscured in visions for an urban timber future.theguardian.comThe flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the futureThe long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber? 152
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenAndrew Whitehouse @anthrobirder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Here's an AHRC-funded PhD project I'm involved with on 'Walking the Energy Transition'. Come and work with me, Jo Vergunst and Jen Clarke in Aberdeen and investigate walking, heritage, art and landscape on the North Sea coast. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comNHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - NHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com 2118
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenJasper Blom @jasprblom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Sounds like an interesting PhD project at Lund university: the role of finance in shaping (dis)orderly energy transitions. With @bvanveelen.bsky.social and @amyjanzwood.bsky.social. Fully funded! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...lu.varbi.comPhD in Sustainability scienceDepartment: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) The Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) is an institute hosting research and education to address sustaina 022
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/06/2026play the FT's chart game - how well do you know what happened since Brexit? as.ft.com/r/102554df-5...as.ft.comDraw your own chart game: how well do you know Brexit?Test your knowledge on what has happened in the 10 years since the UK voted to leave the EU 13615
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenJoeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6) 28670
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenTRAJECTS Climate Centre @trajects.bsky.social · 02/03/2026📣 Call for Applications — TRAJECTS PhD 2026 Do you have a research proposal aligned with Just Transition & Sustainability? This could be your opportunity 👇 102
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenGeo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 17/02/2026🛢️New in Geo🛢️ 'Mental oil spills: Visualising petroleumscapes to uncover petro-hegemony in Stavanger, Norway' by Bjørk Tørnqvist & @bvanveelen.bsky.social This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky 153
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenMelina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory 48761
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Great looking job and very useful application advice for those unfamiliar with Nordic academia! 010
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This also reminds me of the guardian article about Curtis Yarvin in December 031
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The full paper is available, open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0964... 121
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Altogether the paper shows that processes of coal phase out are not straightforward, linear processes, but struggles, and that time plays a key role in them, requiring us to come to grips with coal's unfinished histories and continued promise. 100
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I also discuss how coal companies were using 'temporal strategies' to counter the 2022 reinstatement of the coal mining ban, by calculating their financial losses not based on money spent, but on anticipated future returns. These lawsuits seem to play a part in the current reversal of the ban. 210
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025In it, I explore how decades after the closure of the last mine, coal continued to have a promissory power for some in the local community, embodying hope for a better future. 100
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The provincial government in Alberta has (once again) lifted the moratorium on coal mining . They previously did this in 2020, before reinstating it the following year. I discuss this in the second part of this recently published paper, exploring coal's lingering promise doi.org/10.1080/0964... 145
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025It feels somewhat frivolous to post this with everything going on in the world, but nonetheless I feel very fortunate to be back at @uvic.bsky.social, spending the next two months reading, writing, and connecting with some of my favourite Canadian energy scholars. 050
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Sorry, seems like we forgot to include our contact details 🤦♀️. If anyone would like to attend, please send you title+abstract to these email addresses: 040
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenAdam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.kth.seKTH | Assistant professor in Environmental History with a specialization in Anthropocene HistoryKTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se. 15336
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Workshop / Call for papers Green Jobs: Exploring labour within shifting energy regimes Lund University, June 3-5 2025 Deadlines: - Abstract submission: 25 January - Acceptance notification: early February - Paper submission (5-7000 words): 23 May We'll pay for your food and accommodation :). 33825
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenCommon Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024We can’t understand the geography of capitalism in our present moment without seeing how these old industries overlap with the new. "Two Towns" features an interactive map showing how ex-industrial towns were not “left behind” but actively made into havens for low-paid work. 817676
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024In one of my courses students read books about alternative economic ideas/models (e.g. @katearonoff.bsky.social, @kateraworth.bsky.social, @mazzucatom.bsky.social) and analyse how they can address sustainability challenges. I would love to include more non-European/N.American books. Any suggestions? 021
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Paper: An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city doi.org/10.1177/2514... 171
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024This news article exemplifies perfectly what Sarah Knuth and I wrote about in a paper earlier this year: How the push for timber relies on a mix of nostalgic and technofuturist visions while overly simplifying the supposed carbon benefits of these new developments.bbc.comA 'crazy town looking to go fossil free': Sweden's wooden city that was green before GretaNearly a decade before Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was even born, Växjö set itself on a path to a new vision of green urban living. 1103
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024A student forwarded this article to me yesterday. It looks very interesting and I can't wait to read it (when I find the time...)! 110
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Interested in energy & climate issues? Here are 9 starter packs to fill your feed with. 061
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 22/10/2024For the Swedish speakers: one of my research projects, Changing Places of Work, is featured in the latest Forte magasin. The report (and project) explores what the transition towards fossil-free steel making means for old industrial towns. forte.se/wp-content/u... 140
Reposted by Bregje van VeelenDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Come work with me and the amazing team at The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity at AU! We're hiring a postdoc to work on our project studying civic engagement and activism around climate in the US. The fellow will also help oversee our new DataCorps Program. for details:cece.american.eduOpportunities at CECE - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE)Full-Time CECE Postdoctoral Fellow The School of International Service at American University (AU) invites applications for an eighteen-month Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) Postdoc... 21715
Bregje van Veelen @bvanveelen.bsky.social · 14/12/2023We have a Call for Papers out on ‘Green capital landing' in the journal Finance and Space. The SI highlights how carbon finance actors and instruments enable, or impede, capital to land in specific (green) territories. The deadline for abstracts is 10 January. More info: bit.ly/RFAS1.bit.lyFinance and Space: Green capital landing and the distributional effects of carbon financeThis issue will enhance insights into studies of carbon finance by focusing on the landing of carbon finance and green investments from a bottom-up perspective. 050