Nuclear Power in Stagnation: A Cultural Approach to Failed Expansion
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David Toke was a late starter in academia. Previously he has worked in journalism and school teaching. He studied for a PhD at the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS). He then became Research Fellow and then Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Sociology and POLSIS
He has had over 50 papers published in refereed journals in different disciplines, and has published five single-authored monograph books. His latest book, with Routledge, (with other co-authors) is entitled 'Nuclear Power in Stagnation: A Cultural Approach to Failed Expansion'. Countries studied include USA, UK, France, China, South Korea and Russia. This will be published in 2021. He has had over 2400 citations according to ResearchGate.
He has engaged in a number of research programmes funded by the ESRC, the EU, the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy.
Besides the academic publications mentioned above he has published two widely read public interest books on energy policy. He has written numerous influential reports for different NGOs. His work, including a report published by the World Future Council, proved to be a prime early influence (in 2007-2008) leading to the adoption of a system of feed-in tariffs for smaller renewable energy projects in the UK. He also has produced reports published by Freinds of the Earth, The Green Parties of England and Wales and Scotland and written a number of articles for newspapers and magazines ranging from The Guardian to Energy Economist.
His 'green energy blog' has been highly regarded since 2010. Most recently he has led the formation and campaigns associated with 100percentrenewableuk, see https://100percentrenewableuk.org/. Initiatives have included a report on the extent to which nuclear power in the UK conflicts with generation by renewable energy sources and also a campaign for the Scottish Government to establish a target of deriving 100 per cent of ALL energy (not just electricity) from renewables
He is the Programme Manager of the MSc in Energy Politics and Law. He is also Director for Post Graduate Research for the School of Social Science.
He is currently researching and writing about:
a) The politics of advocacy for and narratives for solar power. This involves a comparison between the USA (especially the southern USA) and the UK. This is being done in collaboration with academics at Oregon State University.
b) 'Low carbon politics' in a range of countries and how cultruasl politics affects deployment of different technologies (forthcoming book with Routledge).
d) The possibilities for China helping to meet the Paris targets on climate abatement, and the relationship of ecological modernisation theory to the case of China and carbon abatement (forthcoming book with Routledge).
c) Follow-up from the ESRC funded project 'Delivering Renewable Energy Under Devolution' - featuring a paper on the impact of the case study on federalist theory
d) Renewable energy policies in different countries, including a study of the emergence of renewable energy policies in South Africa
e) Research into factors associated with success in organising community renewable energy schemes. Dr Toke organised a conference to that effect hosted by the School of Social Science in November 2013. A report of this conference was posted at http://blogs.scotland.gov.uk/coastal-monitoring/2013/12/19/community-renewable-energy-schemes-in-scotland/
there were His most recent collaborations are:
a) He worked with academics form various universities to produce a Special Issue of the journal 'Environmental Politics' on the subject of the interaction of climate change and energy security. He has co-edited this Special Issue with Sevasti-Eleni Vezirgiannidou of the University of Birmingham. The Special Issue appeared in the July edition of 'Environmental Politics', and includes two papers where he is an author. See http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fenp20/22/4#.UuzoktGPO1s
b) As mentioned earlier (see biography), he has also been collaborating with academics from Cardiff University, Queens University Belfast and Robert Gordon University on the ESRC funded project 'Delivering Renewable Energy Under Devolution' (DREUD). He is the lead author of the first output published in a journal, in the Political Quarterly. This is about renewable energy and the Scottish independence debate. See http://realfeed-intariffs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/scottish-renewable-energy-targets-may.html This paper received considerable press attention. However, after this significant developments occurred in the UK energy policies, especially decisions taken by the UK Government concerning Electricity Market Reform, and this prompted a re-think of these conclusions. This re-think can be seen at http://issuu.com/therobertgordonuniversity/docs/the_dreud_report_2013
c) As mentioned above he is collaborating with political scientists from Oregon State Univeristy in the USA to research the politics of advocacy of solar power.
Dr Toke's major teaching responsibilities include:
He is Programme Manager for the MSc in Energy Politics and Law. He teaches the courses 'Energy Politics' and 'International Energy Security' which form part of this Programme. He aslo supervises projects which students do for this programme. You can hear and see more about the Energy Politics and Law Programme at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJRrZfTbJT8&feature=youtu.be
An event called the 'Future of Energy Conference' was held to promote the MSC Programme on 28th March 2018. Some of the recordings and also recordings of the presentations can be seen at: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/energy/events/the-future-of-energy-222.php
He convenes and teaches the final year undergraduate course 'Energy and Climate Politics'.
He is also principal PhD supervisor for a) Kathryn Wolfley, who is researching into shale gas in the USA and comparisons with elsewhere, and b) Wei See Chan who is researching into environmental issues in Malaysia and how they interact with governance c) Han Zhang who is researching environmental politics in China d) Robert Cummins who is studying the environmental and transitions implications surrounding biorefining industrial techniques. This is funded under a Leverhulme Scholarship led by Chemical Engineering.
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