Abigail Martin

Dr. Abigail Martin is an interdisciplinary social scientist and Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School. She earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of California—Berkeley, with a certificate in Science & Technology Studies (STS) from the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society.

She works at the interface of political ecology, STS and economic geography and sociology. Her research centers on questions of state-society conflicts and controversies surrounding emerging "green" technologies and markets. Research interests focus on agricultural, chemical and energy production networks, including over: green chemistry innovations and supply chain implications; low-carbon biofuel development in the US and Brazil; sustainability standards for low-carbon fuel, including the growing use of LCA in regulatory science; advancing environmental justice and economic equity in climate policy; cooperative and commons-based deployment of solar PV; fracking and natural gas production in the US, UK and Argentina; and most recently, on the social and environmental impacts of industrial decarbonization in the UK, Norway, the Netherlands and India.

She is also visiting assistant professor at the University of Stavanger, Faculty of Social Sciences, and has held past visiting professor appointments in Environmental Health and Development at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and San Francisco State University; Community and Regional Development at the University of California—Davis; and Environmental Policy at the Mills College Lokey School of Business and Public Policy. As a Chancellor's Public Fellow in Community-Engaged Scholarship at UC Berkeley, she developed new curriculum in partnership with environmental justice organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, and subsequently as Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Green Economy Center worked with EJ and labor groups to outline a shared just transition agenda by the Energy Foundation

She is a member of the Sussex Energy Group, the American Association of Geographers and the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

Companies

• Faculty Research Fellow, Just Transitions University of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) (2019)
• Visiting Scholar, Sustainability Transitions University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources (2018 — 2019)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Health San Francisco State University (2018 — 2018)
• Lecturer, Environmental Health & Development UC Berkeley School of Public Health (2018 — 2018)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Policy Mills College, Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business (2018 — 2018)
• Lecturer, Urban & Regional Development University of California, Davis, Department of Human Ecology (2017 — 2017)
• Research Scholar, Green Economy Program UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education (2015 — 2016)
• Chancellor's Public Fellow in Engaged Scholarship UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science (2013 — 2014)
• Researcher & Co-Instructor, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2013 — 2014)

Education

• Barnard College, BA Columbia University in the City of New York
• PhD University of California, Berkeley