About
I am a researcher and philosopher working at the intersections of technology, society and the environment.
My research asks a deceptively simple question: what happens to our values when the world we built them for starts to change? Climate change and the energy transition do not only demand new infrastructure — they unsettle what people take to be important, fair, and worth protecting. I study that unsettling: how values shift over time, how they come into conflict between generations and communities, and how those conflicts show up in the design of technologies and the institutions that govern them.
Methodologically I work between traditions. Philosophical analysis sits at the centre — value pluralism, interpretivism, and the ethics of technology — but I also work with agent-based modelling, empirical case studies of community energy, and transdisciplinary collaboration with engineers, social scientists and practitioners. I am interested in what each of these ways of knowing can and cannot say about value change, and in the work of holding them together honestly.
Background
My doctoral dissertation, Value Change, Energy, and the Environment, was carried out within the ERC-funded research programme Design for Changing Values in Socio-Technical Systems. Earlier work in the philosophy of technology examined the role of technomoral virtues in cyberwarfare.