Dr Franziska Paul
- Lecturer in Political Economy (Management)
email:
Franziska.Paul@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 316, Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY
Biography
Dr Franziska Paul is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School. Franziska holds a PhD in Geography along with an MRes in Human Geography, both from the University of Glasgow, and an MA (Hons) in Geography-Sociology from the University of Aberdeen.
After completing her PhD on trade union movement building towards a new, radical labour environmentalism focussed on energy democracy, Franziska worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded Global Remunicipalisation project. Franziska’s postdoctoral work focussed on public ownership, de-privatisation and democratisation of key services and infrastructures, including banking, energy, waste, local government and transport, in the US and Germany.
Franziska is also involved with the Public Futures database, a collaborative initiative and the first comprehensive collection of de-privatisation cases in the world.
Research interests
Franziska is a member of the School's Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Critical political economy
- Economic democracy
- Local and regional wealth building
- Public and collective ownership
- Trade union environmentalism
Grants
- Knowledge Exchange Grant for ‘Public Futures’ Database Construction, Knowledge Exchange Flexible Fund, University of Glasgow, 2020, £12,600
Supervision
Franziska is interested in supervising doctoral research that relates to alternative economic approaches as well as research into contemporary labour issues. Specific areas of interest include:
- local or community wealth building
- cooperative, public and/or collective ownership
- the social economy
- questions of wealth
- trade union environmentalism
- just transition
- and decent work.