GD5111 Energy Inequalities and Climate Responsibilities
Academic year
2024 to 2025 Semester 1
Curricular information may be subject to change
Further information on which modules are specific to your programme.
Key module information
SCOTCAT credits
30
SCQF level
SCQF level 11
Availability restrictions
Available only to students enrolled in the MSc in Energy Ethics
Planned timetable
To be confirmed
Module coordinator
Dr E E Skrzypek
Module Staff
Emilka Skrzypek
Module description
This module will provide students with a nuanced, empirically grounded, and geographically attuned understandings of energy inequities and climate responsibilities. Its aim is to provide the students with knowledge, insights, and analytical skills to understand and address the most pressing energy challenges facing global as well as local communities. The module will guide students through the complex relationship between energy, infrastructure, geopolitics, justice, ethics and extractivism. Taken together, these topics will help us make sense of the expansive and conflicting world within which people live with energy; and address the big societal questions about how to create a better energy future for us all.
Assessment pattern
100% Coursework
Re-assessment
100% Coursework
Learning and teaching methods and delivery
Weekly contact
1 hour lecture and 1 hour seminar per week
Scheduled learning hours
30
Guided independent study hours
266
Intended learning outcomes
- draw on a deeper and broader understanding of key issues relating to energy inequalities and climate responsibilities
- deploy the knowledge and analytical skills needed to creatively engage, confidently analyse, and critically grapple with energy challenges inside and outside the classroom
- display critical awareness of the ethics and politics of energy around the world, in relation to questions of responsibility, inequality, identity, values, and representation
- engage effectively with a range of sources and disciplinary perspectives to build and present well-evidenced and clearly articulated arguments
- apply skills in systemic approaches to problem solving in the field of energy policy and finance
GD5111 Energy Inequalities and Climate Responsibilities
Academic year
2025 to 2026 Semester 1
Curricular information may be subject to change
Further information on which modules are specific to your programme.
Key module information
SCOTCAT credits
30
SCQF level
SCQF level 11
Availability restrictions
Enrolment into the module is subject to approval by module coordinator
Planned timetable
To be confirmed
Module coordinator
Dr E E Skrzypek
Module Staff
Emilka Skrzypek
Module description
The aim of this module is to introduce students to energy ethics, an analytical approach that investigates how energy practices are informed by our individual and collective understandings of ethics. What each of us deems to be right and wrong is central to how we evaluate our own and others’ energy lives and predicaments. It is thus an approach that is well-suited to nuanced, empirically grounded, and geographically attuned understandings of energy inequity and climate responsibility. This module will provide a historical thread to the most important topics in energy ethics. It will start by addressing the colonial legacies that continue to inform how we produce, distribute, and consume energy as well as manage maintenance and waste materials. Introducing the geopolitics of energy, it will explore energy access in displacement settings where refugees, host communities and aid organisations are challenged to integrate sustainable energy solutions into the humanitarian programme cycle.
Assessment pattern
100% Coursework
Re-assessment
100% Coursework
Learning and teaching methods and delivery
Weekly contact
1 hour lecture and 1 hour seminar per week
Scheduled learning hours
30
Guided independent study hours
266
Intended learning outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of key concepts in the field of energy ethics and in-depth understanding of key issues relating to energy inequalities, climate responsibilities, and energy challenges
- Engage critically with a range of academic and non-academic sources to build and present well-evidenced and clearly articulated arguments
- Develop energy scenarios suitable for submission within industry and policy frameworks
- Apply skills in systemic approaches to problem-solving
- Work effectively and collaboratively in a team to co-create outputs