School of Social and Political Science

Background

Qualifications

BA, California State University; MA and PhD, University of California

Elizabeth Bomberg was educated in California before moving to Britain. She has taught at several Universities in the UK and US and has held research posts in Brussels and at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research interests include comparative environmental politics and policy, climate change activism, shale governance and US politics.

Current responsibilities

Elizabeth is cohort lead for Year 2 IR Students,  Programme Co-Director for the MSc Global Environment, Politics and Society, and SUS+ steering group https://susplus.ed.ac.uk/

Teaching expertise

Elizabeth has a keen interest in teaching methods, approaches and innovation. She is recipient of multiple University's Student Association's teaching awards as well as the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme, the Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, and the national Political Studies Association Award for Outstanding Teaching. Her core teaching covers Environmental Politics, US Politics, and Sustainable Development.

Elizabeth also helps coordinate PIR’s expanding initiatives to widen participation and has a list of suggestions for strengthening the links between teaching and research.

Research interests

Elizabeth's primary research activity falls into the broad area of comparative environmental politics, with particular substantive emphasis on activism, climate change, shale politics and community energy, and a geographic focus on Scotland, the UK , the EU and the US. Her monographs, edited textbook, and several journal articles and chapters investigate environmental politics and policymaking in these different polities.

Along with colleague Nicola McEwen, Elizabeth led a UKERC-funded project on grassroots mobilization and energy governance in Scotland (EnGAGE). She was Co-I on a major AHRC–funded study of faith-based activism and climate change, joining a multi-disciplinary team from Divinity, Economic and Social History, Philosophy and Geography.