Patience Mususa is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. She is anthropologist with a background in architecture. Her research covers mining, welfare and urbanisation, the role of critical minerals for the energy transition, and urban climate politics with a regional focus on southern central Africa. PhD in Social Anthropology, 2014 University of Cape Town MSc. Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 2004 University of Oxford MSc. Development Practice, 2002 Oxford Brookes University Bachelor in Architecture, 2001 Copperbelt University