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Dr Jonathan C. Cooper Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Technology and Geography

Research Background

• PhD thesis:

– Nuclear energy and the low carbon transition – Methods: questionnaires and interviews

• Post-doctoral research:

– Place attachment and energy infrastructure development on Anglesey (Wales) – Socio-economic impacts of unconventional gas development (England) – Methods: questionnaires and focus groups

Current/Future Research

• On-farm energy developments in Nova

Scotia (Canada):

– COMFIT (Community Feed-In Tariff) – Funded by the Farmers Club Charitable Trust – Visiting: Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University

• Interests for potential future collaboration:

– Waste-to-energy – Rural supply chains – Social/cultural/policy studies – Farmer surveys

Dr Jonathan C. Cooper jccooper@harper-adams.ac.uk