CLaSP with the LSE Sociology department is hosting an Early Career Workshop titled ‘Critical Perspectives on Carbon Removal and Biodiversity Protection Across Forest, Ocean, Agricultural and Industrial Ecologies’.
This workshop will bring together early career researchers from various social sciences institutions across Europe to explore critical perspectives on carbon and biodiversity governance. This event will be hosted by CLaSP and LSE Sociology on the 29th and 30th of April 2026 at Queen Mary University of London.
NOTE: This is a closed working group event, and results will be reported through a CLaSP Blog entry.
About the event: Our research spans various mechanisms across the global decarbonization regime, including but not limited to carbon markets, carbon border adjustment and debt-for-nature swaps. Over two days, we will discuss each other’s research in the form of one collaborative brainstorming session and four topic-specific panels. Ahead of the workshop, each participant will share a maximum ten thousand words contribution that will serve as the basis for discussion. This may be a paper, a chapter, a new idea or a reflective document on a point at which participants got stuck with their research. Each panel convenes the contributions of two to three researchers to assure space for in-depth reflections. Being an interdisciplinary working group, we will draw from a wide range of social sciences disciplines, including political economy, anthropology, human geography, political science, sociology and business studies.
We work to create a welcoming atmosphere for collegial feedback on the progress of our respective research projects. This is the first in-person meeting of our early career research network and is aimed at consolidating research relationships across our disciplines and institutions.
QMUL’s Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production and LSE Sociology have generously sponsored lunch, dinner, hot drinks and funding going towards accommodation and travel.
Researchers attending:
Andrea Rizzi (University of Bologna) https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/andrea.rizzi9/publications
Lisa Claussmann (Mines Paris-PSL University) https://www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/people/post-doc-en/lisa-claussmann/
Florian Skelton (Goethe University of Frankfurt) https://fixingfutures.eu/florian-skelton/
Laura Maghețiu (Queen Mary University of London) https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/staff/phd/profiles/laura-magheiu-.html
Kiri Santer (University of Bern) https://www.anthro.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/dr_des_santer_kiri/index_ger.html
Jan Gilles (The London School of Economics and Political Science) https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jan-gilles
Felix Krawczyk (University of Kassel) https://www.forum.kit.edu/kollegium_16706.php
Aakash Patel (Queen Mary University of London) https://www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/staff/phdstudents/profiles/apatel.html
Laure Manach (Mines Paris-PSL University) https://www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/people/post-doc-en/laure-manach/
Justine Leret (Goethe University of Frankfurt) https://fixingfutures.eu/members/justine-leret/
David Ilkiw (The London School of Economics and Political Science) https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/david-ilkiw
Caterina Rossi (Queen Mary University of London) https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/staff/phd/profiles/caterina-rossi.html