Biography
Darren was previously Chair in the Management of International Social Challenges and maintains a visiting professor role at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He holds a full Professorship in Environmental & Social Justice at Newcastle University. His mixed methods research agenda focuses on investigating what a just transition to a low carbon future looks like from a global perspective. This has involved funded empircal research in the Arctic, Sub Saharan Africa, South East Asia, Europe and the US. He works closely with international organisations to co-develop research and ensure maximum impact from his work. This has been made possible by a wide range of external sponsors including (among others) British Academy, ESRC, EPSRC (now RCUK), GCRF, H2020 and Horizon Europe funding programmes, Leverhulme, Dutch Council NWO, UK Energy Research Centre, the Carnegie Trust and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He holds a number of external expert positions, including on the Arctic project EU Polarnet. He is retains an active role on Horizon projects JUSTNORTH (6.2 million euros) 2020-2024 and PROBONO (26.4 million euros) 2022-2026.
For more information on Prof. McCauley, please see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3951-1129
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- mccauley@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Darren McCauley, Alberto Quintavalla, Kostina Prifti, Constanze Binder, Felicia Broddén & Hannah van den Brink (2024) - Sustainability Justice: A systematic review of emergent trends and themes - Sustainability Science, 19 (6), 2085-2099 - doi: 10.1007/s11625-024-01565-8 - [link]
- Darren McCauley, Tracy Lynn Field, Iain Todd & Raphael Heffron (2024) - A manifesto for a global just transition - doi: 10.4337/9781802208757.00017 - [link]
- Kerry Pettigrew & Darreny McCauley (2024) - Quantifying just transition for data analysis - doi: 10.4337/9781802208757.00011 - [link]
- Darren McCauley, Tracy-Lynn Field, Raphael J.A. Heffron & Iain Todd (2024) - The Future of Just Transitions: Theory and Implementation - [link]
- Darren McCauley, Tracy Lynn Field & Iain Todd (2024) - What is a Just Transition? - doi: 10.4337/9781802208757.00005 - [link]
- Joe F. Bozeman, Catharina Hollauer, Arjun Thangaraj Ramshankar, Shalini Nakkasunchi, Jenna Jambeck, Andrea Hicks, Melissa Bilec, Darren McCauley & Oliver Heidrich (2024) - Embed systemic equity throughout industrial ecology applications: How to address machine learning unfairness and bias - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 28 (6), 1362-1376 - doi: 10.1111/jiec.13509 - [link]
- Darren McCauley & Kerry Pettigrew (2023) - Building a just transition in asia-pacific: Four strategies for reducing fossil fuel dependence and investing in clean energy - Energy Policy, 183 - doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113808 - [link]
- Roman Sidortsov & Darren McCauley (2023) - Energy Justice - doi: 10.51952/9781529232233.ch011
- Darren McCauley (2023) - Just Transitions - doi: 10.51952/9781529232233.ch015
- Corine Wood-Donnelly, Darren McCauley & Stephen Przybylinski (2023) - Libertarian Theories of Justice - doi: 10.51952/9781529232233.ch002
- Raphael J. Heffron, Louis De Fontenelle, Chioma Basil, Inigo Del Guayo Castiella, Sufyan Droubi, Mohammad Hazrati, Halima I. Hussein, Diane Kraal, Darren McCauley, Alicia Phillips, Emmanuelle Santoire & Xavier Arnauld de Sartre (2023) - Pathways of scholarship for energy justice and the social contract - Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, 41 (2), 211-232 - doi: 10.1080/02646811.2023.2190689 - [link]
- Darren McCauley, Kerry A. Pettigrew, Iain Todd & Christine Milchram (2023) - Leaders and laggards in the pursuit of an EU just transition - Ecological Economics, 205 - doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107699 - [link]
- Darren McCauley, Kerry A. Pettigrew, Raphael J. Heffron & Sufyan Droubi (2023) - Identifying, improving, and investing in national commitments to just transition: Reflections from Latin America and the Caribbean - Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 17 - doi: 10.1016/j.indic.2023.100225 - [link]
- Cas Bulder, Iain Todd, Darren McCauley & Mary Kate Burns (2022) - The influence of COVID-19 on modes of governance for climate change—Expert views from the Netherlands and the UK - Environmental Policy and Governance, 33 (4), 1-13 - doi: 10.1002/eet.2042 - [link]
- Thomas L. Muinzer, Kirsten E.H. Jenkins, Darren A. McCauley & Gavin Mac Leod Little (2022) - Energy justice beyond borders? Exploring the impact of Brexit on Ireland's all-island energy market - Electricity Journal, 35 (10) - doi: 10.1016/j.tej.2022.107218 - [link]
- Jessica L. Hogan, Charles R. Warren, Michael Simpson & Darren McCauley (2022) - What makes local energy projects acceptable?: Probing the connection between ownership structures and community acceptance - Energy Policy, 171 - doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113257 - [link]
- Raphael Heffron & Darren McCauley (2022) - The ‘just transition’ threat to our Energy and Climate 2030 targets - Energy Policy, 165, 1-12 - doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112949 - [link]
- Raphael Heffron, Madeline Taylor, DA (Darren) McCauley, Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa, Yinka Omorogbe & Indah Qurbani (2022) - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Darren McCauley, V Ramasar, R Heffron, D Mebratu, L Mundaca & B Sovacool (2017) - Applied Energy (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Darren McCauley, KEH Jenkins & A Foreman (2016) - Energy Policy (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic
