Academic interests
My research adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to examine socio-technical aspects of the global energy transition and decarbonisation with a focus on well-being, participation, power, and social justice. I'm particularly interested in understanding how shifting actions and power relations maintain or transform society's relationship with low-carbon technologies in developing (Mexico/Chile/Brazil) and developed (Norway/Ireland) contexts.
Education
- 2016 - 2020 PhD in Development studies, University of Cambridge
- 2012 - 2013 Master in Gender and Development, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Positions held
- 2023 - present Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2021 - 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Cork, Ireland
- 2018 - 2021 Teaching Assistant, Cambridge Judge Business School
- 2015 - 2016 Researcher at the United Nations Development Programme, Mexico
Recent publications
- Velasco-Herrejón, P., Viole, I., Valenzuela-Venegas, G., Sartori, S., & Zeyringer, M. (2025). Astronomy and energy justice in the Atacama Desert. In Energy Justice in Latin America (pp. 181-198). Routledge.
- McKenna, R., Lilliestam, J., Heinrichs, H., Weinand, J., Schmidt,. Staffell, I., Hahmann, A., Burgherr, P., Chen, R., Visconti, P., Burdack, Velasco-Herrejón, P., A., Zeyringer, M., Sacchi, S., Lowitzsch, J., Ramirez Camargo, L., Scherhaufer, P., Price, P., Novo, R., Bucha, M., Lehmann, P., Klingler, M (2025) The systemic impacts of wind energy: assessing challenges and opportunities to elaborate a research agenda. Joule.
- Roithner, M., Velasco-Herrejón, P., Van Greevenbroek, K., Grochowicz, A., Vågerö, O., Hvidsten, T.V., Price, J. and Zeyringer, M. (2025). Balancing act: the cost of wind restrictions in Norway's electricity transition. Environmental Research: Energy.
Velasco Herrejón, P. and Bauwens, T. (2024) Are Energy Transitions Reproducing Inequalities? Power, Social Stigma and Distributive (In)Justice in Mexico. Global Environmental Change. 87, 102883. - Velasco-Herrejón, P., López Toledo, E., Romo López, J. A., Antonio Escobar, T. K., Carrasco Morales, E., Hernández Ramírez, W.& Martínez Arreguin, J. (2024). A capability approach to analyse well-being impacts of wind energy infrastructure. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability.
- Velasco-Herrejón, P., Lennon, B., Dunphy, N. P. eds. (2023) Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South. Routledge.
