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Dr Aoife Brophy

Departmental Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise

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Aoife holds a joint appointment between the Smith School and the Saïd Business School. This appointment is a unique collaboration between the two schools, offering current and future opportunities for joint research, teaching and executive education. Aoife's research focuses on what systemic environmental challenges such as the climate crisis, and associated system transitions, mean for business. She focuses on understanding the new business models and forms of collaboration between different organizations (public, private and non-profit) that are required to support sustainable system transformations. Her work spans a range of contexts including research on utilities in the energy transition, sustainable districts, circular economy, and energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. She co-directs the Global Opportunities and Threats Oxford (GOTO) programme for the MBAs in Oxford, and she is developing several executive education initiatives on climate action as integrated components of her research. Aoife was previously a senior researcher at the Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec) at ETH in Zurich. She received her PhD from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and her MA from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

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Journal (13)

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Foster V, Trotter P, Werner S, and others, ‘Development Transitions for Fossil Fuel-Producing Low and lower–middle Income Countries in a Carbon-Constrained World’ [2024] Nature Energy

Brophy A, ‘Policy Mixes for Business Model Innovation: The Case of off-Grid Energy for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’ (2022) 51 Research Policy 104528

Trotter P, Mannan I, Brophy A, and others, ‘How Climate Policies Can Translate to Tangible Change: Evidence from Eleven Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries’ (2022) 346 Journal of Cleaner Production

Batidzirai B, Trotter P, Brophy A, and others, ‘Towards People-Private-Public Partnerships: An Integrated Community Engagement Model for Capturing Energy Access Needs’ (2021) 74 Energy Research and Social Science

Haney A, Pope J and Arden Z, ‘Making It Personal: Developing Sustainability Leaders in Business’ (2018) 33 Organization and Environment 155

Haney A, ‘Threat Interpretation and Innovation in the Context of Climate Change: An Ethical Perspective’ (2017) 143 Journal of Business Ethics 261

Balakrishnan D, Haney A and Meuer J, ‘What a MES(s)! A Bibliometric Analysis of the Evolution of Research on Multi-Energy Systems’ (2016) 98 Electrical Engineering 369

Pollitt M and Haney A, ‘Dismantling a Competitive Retail Electricity Market: Residential Market Reforms in Great Britain’ (2014) 27 The Electricity Journal 66

Pollitt M and Haney A, ‘Dismantling a Competitive Electricity Sector: The U.K.’s Electricity Market Reform’ (2013) 26 The Electricity Journal 8

Haney A and Pollitt M, ‘New Models of Public Ownership in Energy’ (2013) 27 International Review of Applied Economics 174

Haney A and Pollitt M, ‘Exploring the Determinants of "best Practice" Benchmarking in Electricity Network Regulation’ (2011) 39 ENERGY POLICY 7739

Haney A and Pollitt M, ‘Efficiency Analysis of Energy Networks: An International Survey of Regulators’ (2009) 37 Energy Policy 5814

Haney A, Grubb M and Wilde J, ‘Plugging the Gap in Energy Efficiency Policies: The Emergence of the UK ’Carbon Reduction Commitment’ (2009) 3 European Review of Energy Markets 33

Book (1)

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Haney A and Daly I, 53 Interesting Ways to Communicate Your Research (The Professional and Higher Partnership 2014)

c-report (1)

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Haney A, Jones I and Pollitt M, ‘UK Retailers and Climate Change: The Role of Partnership in Climate Strategies’ (Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Electricity Policy Research Group 2009)

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Haney A, Jamasb T and Pollitt M, ‘Smart Metering: Technology, Economics and International Experience’, The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens and Loads (2012)

Akcura E, Haney A, Jamasb T, and others, ‘From Citizen to Consumer: Energy Policy and Public Attitudes in the Uk’, The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens and Loads (2012)

Haney A, Jamasb T, Platchkov L, and others, ‘Demand-Side Management Strategies and the Residential Sector: Lessons from the International Experience’, The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens and Loads (2012)