Dr Elizabeth Carper
Research Associate
Profile
Biography
Elizabeth is a Research Associate at SEI York where she works on ongoing projects aimed at achieving net-zero goals and just transitions. For the Retrofit One-Stop Shop York (ROSSY) project and Yorkshire Policy Innovation Project (YPIP), Elizabeth contributes to producing academic outputs, gathering and analysing qualitative data, and undertaking geospatial analysis investigating retrofit potential. She is a member of the Air Quality, Climate and Environmental Change research group as well as Inclusive Citizen Science, SEI York’s citizen science research group.
Elizabeth was awarded her PhD from the University of York exploring the social acceptability and disruptive potential of agrivoltaics in northwestern India. As a PhD student, she previously worked on SEI’s Schools’ Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education (SAMHE) citizen science project by facilitating schools’ engagement. Prior to this, she has worked as an environmental specialist and liaison for the solar energy siting program at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Climate Change and Clean Energy. She also received her MSc. in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics from the University of St Andrews, and her dual-Bachelors in Environmental Science and Policy, and East Asian Studies from Smith College.
