Dr Riyoko Shibe
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5994-5235Biography
I am an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow exploring an environmental, labour, and political history of oil and petrochemicals through case study of Grangemouth, a settlement in central Scotland. This is based on an extensive oral history and archival project undertaken during my PhD at the University of Glasgow (2022-2026).
I have worked with the Scottish Just Transition Commission to research on industrial closure and just transition policy. I wrote the report, Just Transition Conditionalities: Building a Toolkit for Scotland. With Ewan Gibbs, I co-authored the report The Grangemouth Oil Refinery Closure: Workers' Perspectives.
Publications
2025
Shibe, Riyoko 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5994-5235 and Gibbs, Ewan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241
(2025)
Workers' perspectives on an unjust transition: place, history, and workplace closure at Grangemouth oil refinery, Scotland.
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 57(4),
pp. 1576-1597.
(doi: 10.1111/anti.70025)
Shibe, Riyoko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5994-5235 and Gibbs, Ewan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241
(2025)
The Grangemouth oil refinery closure: lessons for ‘just transition’ governance.
Journal of the British Academy, 13(1),
a11.
(doi: 10.5871/jba/013.a11)
Shibe, Riyoko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5994-5235
(2025)
Petrochemicals, pollution, and the moral economy of noxious industry: Grangemouth, Scotland, from 1951 to 1989.
Enterprise and Society,
(doi: 10.1017/eso.2024.41)
(Early Online Publication)
Articles
Shibe, Riyoko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5994-5235 and Gibbs, Ewan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241
(2025)
Workers' perspectives on an unjust transition: place, history, and workplace closure at Grangemouth oil refinery, Scotland.
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 57(4),
pp. 1576-1597.
(doi: 10.1111/anti.70025)
Shibe, Riyoko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5994-5235 and Gibbs, Ewan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241
(2025)
The Grangemouth oil refinery closure: lessons for ‘just transition’ governance.
Journal of the British Academy, 13(1),
a11.
(doi: 10.5871/jba/013.a11)
Shibe, Riyoko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5994-5235
(2025)
Petrochemicals, pollution, and the moral economy of noxious industry: Grangemouth, Scotland, from 1951 to 1989.
Enterprise and Society,
(doi: 10.1017/eso.2024.41)
(Early Online Publication)
Grants
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2026-2027. "An Energy History of Grangemouth in Scotland: Petrochemicals, Pollution and Prosperity from the 1950s to the 2020s".