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Anne Schiffer
Dr Anne Schiffer is a Reader in the School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. Her research explores how human-centred design collaborations can contribute to equitable and just futures. She is interested in the lived and gendered experience of energy, mobility and water scarcity. Her first book ‘Reframing Energy Access: Insights from The Gambia’ offers a uniquely long-term perspective on challenges and opportunities for more equitable energy access in the Global South.
Biography
Dr Schiffer grew up in rural Germany. She studied Design at Leeds Beckett University in the UK (2008) and holds a PhD from Queen's University Belfast (2016). Prior to joining Leeds Beckett, Dr Schiffer led the Scottish part of Community Power, a European funded project that aimed to improve policy and legislation to speed up the development of community-owned renewable energy. Dr Schiffer is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).Education
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PhD in Design, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
BA (Hons) Design, Leeds Beckett University, England
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Dr Schiffer’s research explores how human-centred design processes can help create socially just futures in the context of energy and water access challenges in the Global South.
Research collaborations include:
• Consultancy to coordinate Friends of the Earth International Renewables & Land Project with a focus on gender and justice in the Global South
• ‘Wise Women - Empowering women in the Leeds School of Arts to overcome career barriers’ , funded through Research England
• Innovate UK funded research on water scarcity in the West Bengal region of India that integrates qualitative human-centred and technical insights in order to adapt ‘Monitoring and ANalytics To Improve Service’ (MANTIS) technology into the rural Indian context
• ‘Gender equity and energy access in the Global South’, led by Anglia Ruskin University and funded through the Global Challenges Research Challenges Fund. This international collaboration brought together a range of partners based in Ghana, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, the Netherlands and the UK to investigates how ‘access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy’ is constructed by professional actors and with what implications for gender equity
Personal Interests
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She enjoys travel to experience different cultures and landscapes, nature walks and collecting edible mushrooms.
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