Department of Economics
Julia Taylor
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Economics PhD student on the joint SOAS-Wits Programme in Applied Development Economics.
- Department
- Department of Economics
- Qualifications
- BCom PPE (University of Cape Town); MSc Environment and Development (University of Edinburgh); MCom Applied Development Economics (University of the Witwatersrand)
- Email address
- 714935@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Gendered labour in the ‘just’ energy transition: An analysis of social reproduction in South Africa during the low-carbon energy transition.
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Hannah Bargawi
Biography
Julia Taylor is a PhD student on the joint Wits-SOAS programme in Applied Development Economics.
She is also a Researcher on Climate Change and Inequality at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, she was Researcher and Climate Policy Lead at the Institute for Economic Justice where she worked with labour unions on priorities for a just transition.
Prior to moving into research, she worked with NGOs in South Africa on issues of youth unemployment and ecological education, as well as sustainability consulting.
Research interests
- Climate justice
- Energy transition
- Social reproduction
- Feminist economics
- Inequality
