Stefano Magariello

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Postdoctoral research fellow - Planetary Health
Faculty:
Faculty of Health, Education and Social Care
Location:
Cambridge

Stefano is an environmental sociologist currently working on Planetary Health with links to Education for Sustainability (Green Heron Audit), and a focus on making research at ARU more environmentally sustainable.

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Background

Stefano first joined Anglia Ruskin University in 2018 as a PhD researcher at the Global Sustainability Institute, working on completing a thesis about exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of municipal energy transition and related policy work practices.

Between 2023 and 2024 he worked on interdisciplinary Keep Britain Tidy-founded Delphi research project on smoking-related littering with the Applied Ecology Research Group in the School of Life Sciences at ARU.

He has recently co-led an exploratory study on public perception of climate change municipal policy in Cambridge (PLACE Transition) adopting a place-based approach. Overall, he enjoys exploring a diverse range of theoretical and methodological approaches and working towards transdisciplinarity to address pressing socioecological issues.

Spoken Languages
  • Italian (native)
  • Spanish
  • French
  • English
Research interests

Stefano is part of the Planetary and Population Health Research Group. His research interests are:

  • Planetary and population health
  • Sustainable research
  • Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy transitions
  • Energy transition policy-work practices
  • Public perceptions of climate change strategies

Areas of Expertise

  • Planetary Health
  • Environmental Sociology
Qualifications
  • PhD, Global Sustainability, Anglia Ruskin University
  • MSc Sociology, University of Turin (Italy)
  • BA Cross-Cultural Communication, University of Turin (Italy)
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange
  • Place-Based Urban Energy Transitions (PBUET) Symposium. Funded through: ARU Sustainable Futures Knowledge Exchange Funding Call 2023
  • Publics and Local Approaches to Cambridge’s Energy Transition (PLACE Transition). Funded through: ARU ‘Let’s Shape Research Together’ Participatory Research Funding 2023-2024
Recent presentations and conferences

Competing narratives of green transition: a comparative analysis of sociotechnical imaginaries of hydrogen in Italy, 15th Conference of Environmental Sociologists, University of Turin, 9th September 2025.

Public and Local Approaches to Cambridge’s Energy Transition (PLACE Transition), West Hub Research Café: Sustainability, University of Cambridge, 25th September 2024.

Expert recommendations to combat smoking-related littering. Insights from a Delphi perspective. AERG Mini plastics conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 13th March 2024.

Sociotechnical imaginaries for the energy transition, in Energy Communities. Perspectives, imaginaries, and reality, Sustainable Development Week – Solar Academy Graduate School at INES - Polytech Annecy Chambéry, UNITA Universitas Montium, 23rd September 2022.

Urban energy transition policy-making practices and imaginaries. The role of local policy workers towards sustainable futures, 5th Energy and Society conference in cooperation with ESA RN 12, ISA RN 24, and the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA), Online, 10th-12th February 2021.