Magdalini (Madeleine) Kechagia

Madeleine is a social researcher with an interdisciplinary background that combines business, environment, and geography studies. She joined GSI in May 2024 as Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the EU-funded PUSH-IT project.

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Background

Madeleine is an interdisciplinary social researcher with experience in utilising quantitative and qualitative methods.  Her PhD in Geographies of Energy Transitions and Justice at the University of Plymouth focused on exploring the underlying reasons for support/opposition towards shale-gas fracking in English host communities through an integrated approach that combined perceptions of risks and benefits, justice, place, and broader worldviews. She holds a bachelor’s in business administration and a MSc in Sustainable Environmental Management. Her MSc dissertation focused on policy learning and international carbon markets.

Before joining the GSI, she was a Research Associate for the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation, at the University of Bath (Psychology Department). Prior to that, she held other research assistant and project administration positions within the academic and industry sectors. Based on her teaching and research experience, Madeleine also has a Visiting Specialist position at the University of Plymouth (School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences).

Spoken Languages

English, Greek

Research interests

• Social acceptability of energy technologies
• Environmental/climate change governance
• Sense of place
• Environmental/Energy/Climate change Justice

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Greece (2012)
• MSc in Sustainable Environmental management, University of Plymouth, UK (2013)
• PhD in in Geographies of Energy Transitions and Justice, University of Plymouth, UK  (TBC)

Memberships, editorial boards

Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society

Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education

Selected recent publications

Kechagia, M., Bailey, I., and Harmer, N. ‘Perceptions of shale gas fracking in host communities in the UK: towards an integrated approach.’ Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). August 2018. 

Kechagia, M., Bailey, I., and Harmer, N. ‘National Interests and local inconveniences: Experiences of (In)justice in UK shale-gas fracking.’ Nordic Geographic Annual Meeting. June 2017 

Kechagia, M., Bailey, I., and Harmer, N. ‘National Interests and local inconveniences: Experiences of (In)justice in UK shale-gas fracking.’ Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Postgraduate Mid-term Conference. April 2017 

Bailey, I., Kechagia, M., and Harmer, N. ‘When worlds collide: nexuses and fractures in rural engagements in energy science, governance and place impacts.’ Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). September 2016