Ewan gibbs biography definition

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What do you research?

[.cdw-name]Ewan Gibbs[.cdw-name]

My name is Ewan Gibbs, I’m a lecturer in economic and social history at Glasgow University and my research is about labour, work, energy and industry.

My research is largely focused on workplace politics and protests in energy sectors, primarily looking at Scotland in the twentieth century, increasingly looking at Britain as a whole, and I'm also thinking about energy and workplace politics in the twenty-first century, including transition to renewable energy in my research as well.

My background was in researching deindustrialisation in the Scottish coalfields, so I have a long experience of the end of coal mining employment across the second half of the twentieth century. More recently, I’ve been working on a larger project on experiences of energy transition in light of the current discussion of the transition to green energy and have been thinking about Britain’s experiences of sev