Adam Smith Business School

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

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153

Biography

Dr Franziska Paul is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Economy. 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.

Franziska’s research explores issues of ownership and transformation (social, economic, and ecological), with a specific interest in processes of de-privatisation, democratisation, and alternative economic development. At College level, Franziska is on the leadership team of the interdisciplinary research initiative Political Economy Futures Forum (PEFF).

 Current research projects:

  • "Phasing in and phasing out: reworking labour in energy transition in the North Sea" (PHASE) (2024-2028), collaborative international research with Norwegian partners
  • Public Futures Database, a collaborative, knowledge exchange initiative and the first comprehensive survey of de-privatisation cases in the world

Affiliations and professional memberships:

Research interests

Franziska is a member of the School's Work, Organisation and Political Economy (WOPE) research cluster and on the leadership team of the college-wide Political Economy Futures Forum (PEFF) Interdisciplinary Research Theme.

Areas of expertise:

  • Critical political economy
  • Public and collective ownership
  • Economic democracy
  • Local and regional wealth building
  • Trade union environmentalism

Research groups

  • Political Economy Futures Forum

Publications

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Number of items: 36.

2026

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423 and Steinfort, Lavinia (2026) Remunicipalisation and the prospects for more equitable place-based development. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 19(2), pp. 307-319. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsag015)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2026) Privatisation as ‘counter-regional policy’: lessons from the past for a policy fit for the future. In: Martin, Ron (ed.) The Evolution of UK Regional Policy: Lessons from the Past for a Policy Fit for the Future. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY, pp. 168-183. ISBN 9781041098768 (doi: 10.4324/9781003652281-12)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2026) Tackling neoliberal common sense through the US municipal public banking movement. Studies in Political Economy, (Accepted for Publication)

Helmcke, C. et al. (2026) Inclusive and sustainable futures for Scotland. Project Report. University of St Andrews. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19387553).

Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2026) Crowdsourcing as a methodology for global movements: building counter-hegemonic knowledge of de-privatisation. Social Movement Studies, (doi: 10.1080/14742837.2026.2616459) (Early Online Publication)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Stegemann, Laura (2026) Remunicipalization, neoliberal mutation, and spatially varied deprivatization in the UK and Germany. In: Alexander, Alba, Bennett, Larry, McKenzie, Evan and Pagano, Michael A. (eds.) Unwinding Privatization: Cities and the Restoration of Public Power. Series: Urban and industrial environments. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262053389 (doi: 10.7551/mitpress/15898.003.0010)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Wishart, Lucy (2026) Economies: Dr Franziska Paul and Dr Lucy Wishart - Inclusive and Sustainable Futures for Scotland. St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities and Centre for Energy Ethics. [Audio]

2025

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2025) Organising for the energy transition: labour, energy democracy, and the climate emergency. In: Herod, Andrew (ed.) Handbook of Labour Geography. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 529-541. ISBN 9781785363405 (doi: 10.4337/9781785363405.00056)

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2025) Roundtable: public banking. A radically open future? The US public banking movement and the creation of economic alternatives. Just Money, 5 Mar.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2025) Demanding ownership: energy democracy and environmental labour geographies. Area, 57(1), e12987. (doi: 10.1111/area.12987)

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2025) Creating Public Alternatives: New Public Banks, Economic Democracy, and Neoliberal Urban Governance. 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG), Worcester, MA, USA, 4-8 June 2025.

2024

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2024) The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: The case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. Local Government Studies, 50(4), pp. 696-717. (doi: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2298292) (PMCID:PMC11295930)

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2024) Episode #211: The People's Bank - Dr Franziska Paul on Publicly-Owned Banking. [Audio]

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2024) From Frustrated Farmers, to Fuck Wallstreet, and Fairer Finance: The Public Banking Movement in the US. American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2024 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 16-20 Apr 2024.

2023

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Putri, Prathiwi (2023) Franziska Paul on the German trajectory of (neoliberal) governance, the locus of ‘local state’ and community movements. [Audio]

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) The People versus TINA: The Public Banking Movement in California, USA. International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) 13th Annual Conference In Political Economy: The Chronicles of Multiple Crises Foretold, Madrid, Spain, 06-08 Sep 2023.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Brown, Grace ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9805-3466 (2023) People Power: Movements for Public Ownership and Energy Transition in the US. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London, UK, 29 Aug - 01 Sep 2023.

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), pp. 165-183. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X211050407)

2022

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Exploring the Multifaceted Motivations Behind Remunicipalisation: The Case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. IGU Commission Geography of Governance International Conference: Local Governance in a Time of Global Emergencies, Mexico City, Mexico, 29-31 Aug 2022.

Weghmann, Vera, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2022) Struggles for Democratic Participation in the German Post-Remunicipalisation Process. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 Jul 2022.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Nation-building and Local Government in Germany: Daseinsvorsorge. Shifting Narratives: The Political Economy Of Public Spending, Services, and Production (PSSP) Conference, Online, 27-30 Jun 2022.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2022) The Return of the Local State? Failing Neoliberalism, Remunicipalisation, and the Role of the State in Advanced Capitalism. 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG): Territorial Development: Evolution, Innovation, Disruption and Marginalisation under the Anthropocene and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dublin, Ireland, 07-10 Jun 2022.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Stegemann, Laura and Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global Deprivatisation Process. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Remunicipalisation, mutating neoliberalism, and the conjuncture. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(1), pp. 197-217. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12761)

2021

Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Stegemann, Laura (2021) Public Futures Database Report. Technical Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2021) Das globale phänomen der rekommunalisierung: zwischen mutierendem neoliberalismus und der politisierung öffentlicher güter. Kurswechsel, 2021(4),

2020

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2020) Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'actually existing municipalisms'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 74, pp. 40-53. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.74.03.2020)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2020) Exploring the role of ‘the public’ in social economics: public ownership and the solidarity city? Space and Polity, 24(3), pp. 314-316. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787138)

2019

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2019) Democratisation by Design or Default? Global Remunicipalisation and the Post-Neoliberal Turn. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, UK, 27-30 Aug 2019.

2018

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) “No jobs on a dead planet”: energy democracy, public ownership and union opposition to mega-energy projects. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 26(3), pp. 21-29.

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) Deep entanglements: history, space and (energy) struggle in the German Energiewende. Geoforum, 91, pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.017)

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) Power to the People: Energy Democracy, Labour Environmentalism, and the Struggle for Public Ownership. American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 10-14 Apr 2018.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) Calling for Just Transition: Trade Unions and the Fight for Energy Democracy. The Just Transition 2018 Conference: The Just Transition towards a Low-Carbon Economy – Integrating Climate, Energy and Environmental Justice, Edinburgh, UK, 01-02 Mar 2018.

2017

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2017) “Resist! Reclaim! Restructure!”: Labour’s Involvement in Energy Democracy Struggles. Beyond Oil Conference 2017: Mobilizing alternative futures, Bergen, Norway, 24-27 Oct 2017.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2017) From Global Kinds of Knowledge to Frontline Struggles: Labour Environmentalism and the Fight for Energy Democracy. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference 2017, London, UK, 29 Aug- 01 Sep 2017.

2016

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2016) The State and Its Others: Proposing Energy Democracy as a Framework for Relational Energy Politics in the German Energiewende. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference 2016, London, UK, 30 Aug- 02 Sep 2016.

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Articles

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423 and Steinfort, Lavinia (2026) Remunicipalisation and the prospects for more equitable place-based development. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 19(2), pp. 307-319. (doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsag015)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2026) Tackling neoliberal common sense through the US municipal public banking movement. Studies in Political Economy, (Accepted for Publication)

Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2026) Crowdsourcing as a methodology for global movements: building counter-hegemonic knowledge of de-privatisation. Social Movement Studies, (doi: 10.1080/14742837.2026.2616459) (Early Online Publication)

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2025) Roundtable: public banking. A radically open future? The US public banking movement and the creation of economic alternatives. Just Money, 5 Mar.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2025) Demanding ownership: energy democracy and environmental labour geographies. Area, 57(1), e12987. (doi: 10.1111/area.12987)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2024) The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: The case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. Local Government Studies, 50(4), pp. 696-717. (doi: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2298292) (PMCID:PMC11295930)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), pp. 165-183. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X211050407)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Remunicipalisation, mutating neoliberalism, and the conjuncture. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(1), pp. 197-217. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12761)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2021) Das globale phänomen der rekommunalisierung: zwischen mutierendem neoliberalismus und der politisierung öffentlicher güter. Kurswechsel, 2021(4),

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2020) Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'actually existing municipalisms'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 74, pp. 40-53. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.74.03.2020)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2020) Exploring the role of ‘the public’ in social economics: public ownership and the solidarity city? Space and Polity, 24(3), pp. 314-316. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787138)

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) “No jobs on a dead planet”: energy democracy, public ownership and union opposition to mega-energy projects. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 26(3), pp. 21-29.

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) Deep entanglements: history, space and (energy) struggle in the German Energiewende. Geoforum, 91, pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.017)

Book Sections

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2026) Privatisation as ‘counter-regional policy’: lessons from the past for a policy fit for the future. In: Martin, Ron (ed.) The Evolution of UK Regional Policy: Lessons from the Past for a Policy Fit for the Future. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY, pp. 168-183. ISBN 9781041098768 (doi: 10.4324/9781003652281-12)

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Stegemann, Laura (2026) Remunicipalization, neoliberal mutation, and spatially varied deprivatization in the UK and Germany. In: Alexander, Alba, Bennett, Larry, McKenzie, Evan and Pagano, Michael A. (eds.) Unwinding Privatization: Cities and the Restoration of Public Power. Series: Urban and industrial environments. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262053389 (doi: 10.7551/mitpress/15898.003.0010)

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2025) Organising for the energy transition: labour, energy democracy, and the climate emergency. In: Herod, Andrew (ed.) Handbook of Labour Geography. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 529-541. ISBN 9781785363405 (doi: 10.4337/9781785363405.00056)

Research Reports or Papers

Helmcke, C. et al. (2026) Inclusive and sustainable futures for Scotland. Project Report. University of St Andrews. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19387553).

Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241, Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Stegemann, Laura and Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global Deprivatisation Process. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Pearson, Bethia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-8423, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Stegemann, Laura (2021) Public Futures Database Report. Technical Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2025) Creating Public Alternatives: New Public Banks, Economic Democracy, and Neoliberal Urban Governance. 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG), Worcester, MA, USA, 4-8 June 2025.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2024) From Frustrated Farmers, to Fuck Wallstreet, and Fairer Finance: The Public Banking Movement in the US. American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2024 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 16-20 Apr 2024.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2023) The People versus TINA: The Public Banking Movement in California, USA. International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) 13th Annual Conference In Political Economy: The Chronicles of Multiple Crises Foretold, Madrid, Spain, 06-08 Sep 2023.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153, Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 and Brown, Grace ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9805-3466 (2023) People Power: Movements for Public Ownership and Energy Transition in the US. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London, UK, 29 Aug - 01 Sep 2023.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Exploring the Multifaceted Motivations Behind Remunicipalisation: The Case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. IGU Commission Geography of Governance International Conference: Local Governance in a Time of Global Emergencies, Mexico City, Mexico, 29-31 Aug 2022.

Weghmann, Vera, Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2022) Struggles for Democratic Participation in the German Post-Remunicipalisation Process. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 Jul 2022.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2022) Nation-building and Local Government in Germany: Daseinsvorsorge. Shifting Narratives: The Political Economy Of Public Spending, Services, and Production (PSSP) Conference, Online, 27-30 Jun 2022.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2022) The Return of the Local State? Failing Neoliberalism, Remunicipalisation, and the Role of the State in Advanced Capitalism. 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG): Territorial Development: Evolution, Innovation, Disruption and Marginalisation under the Anthropocene and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dublin, Ireland, 07-10 Jun 2022.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Cumbers, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5241 (2019) Democratisation by Design or Default? Global Remunicipalisation and the Post-Neoliberal Turn. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, UK, 27-30 Aug 2019.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) Power to the People: Energy Democracy, Labour Environmentalism, and the Struggle for Public Ownership. American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 10-14 Apr 2018.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2018) Calling for Just Transition: Trade Unions and the Fight for Energy Democracy. The Just Transition 2018 Conference: The Just Transition towards a Low-Carbon Economy – Integrating Climate, Energy and Environmental Justice, Edinburgh, UK, 01-02 Mar 2018.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2017) “Resist! Reclaim! Restructure!”: Labour’s Involvement in Energy Democracy Struggles. Beyond Oil Conference 2017: Mobilizing alternative futures, Bergen, Norway, 24-27 Oct 2017.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2017) From Global Kinds of Knowledge to Frontline Struggles: Labour Environmentalism and the Fight for Energy Democracy. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference 2017, London, UK, 29 Aug- 01 Sep 2017.

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2016) The State and Its Others: Proposing Energy Democracy as a Framework for Relational Energy Politics in the German Energiewende. Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference 2016, London, UK, 30 Aug- 02 Sep 2016.

Audio

Paul, Franziska Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Wishart, Lucy (2026) Economies: Dr Franziska Paul and Dr Lucy Wishart - Inclusive and Sustainable Futures for Scotland. St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities and Centre for Energy Ethics. [Audio]

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 (2024) Episode #211: The People's Bank - Dr Franziska Paul on Publicly-Owned Banking. [Audio]

Paul, Franziska ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153 and Putri, Prathiwi (2023) Franziska Paul on the German trajectory of (neoliberal) governance, the locus of ‘local state’ and community movements. [Audio]

This list was generated on Tue Aug 25 23:17:20 2026 BST.

Grants

  • Scotland Beyond Net Zero (SBNZ) Seed Fund (£14,150): "Complex Circles: Navigating Share and Repair Ecosystems in Scotland through Game Based Learning". Co-Lead, 2026-2027
  • ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant, University of Edinburgh (£10,000): "Making Transition Finance Work: A Technical Assistance Guide for Scotland". Co-I/ academic partner. Project Lead: Dr Karishma Ansaram, University of Edinburgh, 2026-2027
  • Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences (SGSSS) Open Collaborative Competition ('Supervisor-led' PhD studentship award): "Public Futures, Deprivatisation and Municipalisation: Addressing Inequalities of Local Public Provision" with collaborative partner Transnational Institute (Netherlands). Lead supervisor, project timeframe: 2025-2028
  • Norges Forskningsråd/ Research Council of Norway (£46,000 for Glasgow team; full award: £883,000): “Phasing in and phasing out: Reworking labour in energy transitions in the North Sea” (PHASE). Co-I (/PI Glasgow team). Project Lead: Dr Camilla Houeland at Fafo, Norway, 2024-2028
  • New Interdisciplinary Research Theme, College of Social Sciences (£30,000): “Political Economy Futures Forum” (PEFF), Co-Lead/ IRT Leadership Team, 2024-2027
  • International Partnership Development Fund (£4,710): “Establishing a Transnational Research Network on Public Banking”, PI, 2023-2024
  • Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Flexible Fund (£12,600): “Building a Global Database on Remunicipalisation”, Co-I with Prof Andrew Cumbers, 2020-2021

Supervision

Franziska is interested in supervising doctoral research that relates to alternative economic approaches as well as research into contemporary labour issues.

Current supervision:

  • Cutroneo, Erin Elizabeth
    Public Futures, Deprivatisation and Municipalisation: Addressing Inequalities of Local Public Provision
  • Kalemba, Martin
    African Kingdoms as Resourceful Corporations: The Royal Bafokeng Nation and Community Wealth Building in Africa
  • Osborn, Claire
    Negotiating the future of work: a comparative study of changing worker voice

Teaching

2025-26

  • Democratising the Economy (MGT4116)
  • Economic Crisis and Depressions (MGT4063)

Franziska also supervises undergraduate, postgraduate taught, and MBA dissertation projects.

 

Additional information

Awards and recognition

  • People Make Research (2025), category: Collaboration
  • Winner of Engagement Through Research Award (2024), category: ‘Outstanding Community Engagement’ for work on the Public Futures Database.
  • Top Cited Article Award (2022-2023), Wiley. For: Antipode paper (Cumbers and Paul 2022) 

Guest speaking and lecturing (recent, selection)

 


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