Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford

Elizabeth Harnett is a Research Associate with the Smith School's Sustainable Finance Programme.

Elizabeth recently completed her D.Phil thesis at the University of Oxford, analysing the mainstreaming of responsible investment knowledge and practice from an economic geography perspective. She holds an MPhil (with Distinction) and BA in Geography from the University of Oxford, and was a postgraduate fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). She was awarded the 2016 FIR-PRI Best Masters Thesis, a Europe-wide prize for sustainable finance research. Her research interests lie in examining cognition, behaviour and governance relating to sustainable finance, ESG integration and responsible investment.

Book Chapters

• Harnett, E. (2018) Stranded assets: an environmentally-driven framework of sunk costs　. In, Caldecott, B. (ed.) Stranded Assets and the Environment: Risk, Resilience and Opportunity. .
• Harnett, E.S. (2018) Social and asocial learning about climate change among institutional investors: lessons for stranded assets. Chapter 4 in, Caldecott, B. (ed.) Stranded Assets: , Developments in Finance and Investment. Routledge.