Research
A single question runs through my work: how do values change under environmental and technological pressure, and what follows from that for design, policy and public life?
Climate ethics
Climate change distributes benefits and burdens across generations, borders and species, and it does so under deep uncertainty. I work on how moral claims can be made and contested in that setting — particularly on intergenerational conflict, and on what it means to take disagreement about climate values seriously rather than treating it as noise to be managed away.
Philosophy and ethics of technology
Technologies are not neutral instruments that arrive after the moral questions have been settled. They embed commitments, foreclose options and make some futures easier to reach than others. I study how ethical reasoning can enter technological design early enough to matter, and what design does to the values it claims to serve.
Values and value change
The core of my research. Drawing on Isaiah Berlin's value pluralism and Ronald Dworkin's interpretivism, I argue that value change is best understood interpretively — not as preferences drifting, but as communities reinterpreting what their commitments require under new conditions. This has consequences for how value change can be modelled, anticipated, and designed for.
Sustainability and energy transitions
Energy systems are where these questions become concrete. I work on energy democracy and community energy initiatives, on hydrogen governance and technological pluralism, and on the value dynamics that emerge when people organise their own energy provision rather than receiving it.
Technology, society and the environment
Beyond any single system, I am interested in how technological and societal transformation reshape the relationship between people and the environments they depend on — and in the ethical vocabulary we need to describe that well.
Transdisciplinary knowledge and engagement
Much of my work is collaborative, spanning philosophy, complex systems modelling, social science and practice. I am interested in the methodology of that collaboration itself: what is gained and lost when philosophical concepts are formalised, and how research can engage publics without flattening what it has to say.