Dr Helen Traill
- Lecturer in Political Economy and Sustainability (Management)
- Affiliate (Adam Smith Business School)
email:
Helen.Traill@glasgow.ac.uk
Main Building, Room 613, University Avenue, Glasgow, G20 8QQ
Biography
Dr Helen Traill is a Lecturer in Political Economy and Sustainability at the Adam Smith Business School. Her research interests span the urban everyday life, community organisations and social networks, (classed) practices of sustainability, sustainability transitions and social change, and the politics of urban land use.
She holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, which focused on practices of communality in community growing projects and their relation to urban land politics. That project is now written up in a monograph from Bristol University Press, under the title The Practice of Collective Escape.
Helen previously held post-doctoral roles in the school on sustainability projects. That work included exploring the ethics of sustainability in areas of urban deprivation, working alongside and learning from a community food hub in the East End of Glasgow. It also included two years on a Horizon2020 project on municipal action towards energy transition, working with NGOs across Europe to identify common challenges and blockages to local action for change.
Research interests
Helen is as member of the School's Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Community organisations
- Qualitative methodologies
- Urban land politics
- Urban food systems
- Sustainability transitions
Grants
Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Flexible Fund (£14,918), (Co-I with Stephanie Anderson, Robert McMaster, Andrew Cumbers, Deirdre Shaw) ‘Creating a Toolkit and Collaborative Methodology for Evaluating the Glasgow City Food Plan’, 2023
Research Pump-Priming Fund 2022/23 (£2050), (Co-I with Robert McMaster) Adam Smith Business School, university of Glasgow, 2022
Research reinvigoration funding (£2,980.80), (Co-I with PI Dr Stephanie Anderson) Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, 2022
Strategic Research Fund (£1,818), (Co-I with PI Dr Stephanie Anderson) College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2022
Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Flexible Fund (£9650), ‘Community Food Hubs and the Promotion of Sustainable Urban Food Systems’, University of Glasgow (Co-Investigator), 2020
Teaching
Helen currently course coordinates Management Research Methods and Management Research Methods online. She also contributes to the postgraduate course, Research Masterclass, and to the honours elective, Social and Community Entrepreneurship.
Additional information
Member of the Community Food working group of the Glasgow City Food Plan.
Winner: Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2020, in category: Making a Difference.
Winner: University of Glasgow Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement Awards 2020, in category: Best Community or Public Engagement Initiative.
