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I work at the intersection of social and behavioural determinants of environmental exposures and associated health risks.

I am an assistant professor in the Economics Department at Colorado State University, where I teach courses in microeconomics, environmental economics, and political economy. My research focuses on the political economy of the environment, especially the sharing economy and the climate crisis. I have used carbon footprint data to study household and urban economies in carbon emissions, the potential of work hours reductions to address climate change, and the distributional impact of carbon pricing policies.

Dr Harriet Thomson is an award-winning interdisciplinary academic with world leading expertise in energy poverty. Her research interests broadly concern the role of public policy and policymaking processes, structural inequalities in the distribution of housing and access to affordable and clean forms of energy, health and wellbeing outcomes, and indicators for measuring the complex realities of energy poverty. Conducting transformative policy-relevant research and doing so in a participatory and holistic manner are core elements of Harriet's research ethos. To achieve this, she has consistently worked across disciplines and sectors to forge collaborations and international networks, comprising policymakers, regulators, local communities, and other key stakeholders. These efforts have resulted in several active international consortium projects in Europe and across Latin America, and to date Harriet has been awarded in excess of £2.9 million in research funding from the European Commission, British Council, GCRF, and other sources. Harriet's research outputs have been used to influence the framing of policy approaches to address energy poverty worldwide, including the European Commission’s Clean Energy for all Europeans package, and more recently, the launch of a monitoring observatory in Mexico.