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With interdisciplinary background from MA in International Development to PhD in Psychology, Dr. Minh Thu Nguyen is pursuing her research interest in Critical Environmental Psychology. After having successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “Representing energy citizenship in Positive Energy Districts: A socio-psychological analysis”, Minh Thu is working as post-doc researcher in COPPER project, where she uses qualitative research skills to explore how citizens in local communities of European cities self-organise peer-to-peer energy support system and information platforms for more just and inclusive Positive Energy Districts.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Minh-Thu Nguyen

Citation names

  • Nguyen, Minh-Thu
  • Minh Thu, Nguyen

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1416-7091-F57A
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2437-5168
Scopus Author Id
57433606100

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Environmental Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Vietnamese (Mother tongue)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10/15 - 2024/09/18
Concluded
PhD in Psychology (Doutoramento)
Major in Social Psychology, Environmental Psychology
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
"Representing energy citizenship for Positive Energy Districts: A sociopsychological analysis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction
2018/09/24 - 2019/09/25
Concluded
International Development (Master)
Major in Political Ecology
Nottingham Trent University School of Arts and Humanities, United Kingdom
"GOVERNMENTALITIES OF BLOCKCHAIN-FOR-ENVIRONMENT" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction
2010/09/01 - 2014/06/30
Concluded
International Business-Marketing (Bachelor)
Major in International Business
University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
"Determinants of Healthcare Expenditure of Vietnamese households, a research on Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey panel data from 2004 to 2010 (in French)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Upper second class 2:1
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/11/25 - 2026/09/30 Postdoc (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2019/10/15 - 2024/11/24 Research Assistant (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/11/25 - 2026/09/30 COPPER - Creating, Optimizing and Planning Positive EneRgy districts: connecting citizens’ energy at different geographical levels
Post-doc
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/10/15 - 2022/10/15 Smart BeejS - Smart Value Generation by Building Efficiency and Energy Justice for Sustainable Living
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Excellent Science
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Nguyen, M. T.; Batel, S.. "Which energy citizenship in positive energy districts? A governmentality social psychological analysis of participatory governance". Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 26 1 (2023): 117-130. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1523908X.2023.2291386.
    Published • 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2291386
  2. Nguyen, M.; Batel, S.. "A critical framework to develop human-centric positive energy districts: Towards justice, inclusion, and well-being". Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 3 (2021): https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities#about.
    Published • 10.3389/frsc.2021.691236
Report
  1. Lamonaca, Luca; Nguyen, Minh-Thu; Yoo, Han Kyul. 2022. Socio-economic factors & Citizens' practices, enabling Positive Energy Districts _ Advisory report on accelerating PED Design. https://smart-beejs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WP3-Deliverable-D3.5_Advisory-report.pdf.
  2. Yoo, Han Kyul; Nguyen, Minh-Thu; Lamonaca, Luca. 2021. Socio-economic factors & Citizens' practices, enabling Positive Energy Districts _ Round-table discussion on local energy transitions. https://smart-beejs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Smart_BEEjS_Round-table-report_D3_4.pdf.
  3. Nguyen, Minh-Thu; Yoo, Han Kyul; Lamonaca, Luca; Galanakis, Kostas; Ackrill, Robert. 2020. Socio-economic factors & Citizens' practices, enabling Positive Energy Districts _ Challenging 'silo thinking' for promoting PEDs. https://smart-beejs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/WP3-Deliverable-D3.2_Silo-thinking.pdf.

Artistic / Performance

Video recording
  1. Lamonaca, Luca; Yoo, Han Kyul; Caballero, Nicolas; Nguyen, Minh-Thu. 2021. 7 Tips on Energy Justice - What can I do?.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06/11 Decolonising energy justice and situating energy citizenship in local representations of Positive Energy Districts Political Ecology Conference (POLLEN-2024)
University of Lund, POLLEN network (Lund, Sweden)
2023/06/23 Energy citizenship in response to Environmental injustice and Social inequalities International Conference of Environmental Psychology (ICEP-2023)
Aarhus University, under auspices of Division of Environmental Psychology of the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP) (Aarhus, Denmark)
2022/06/21 Empowering Energy citizenship through Participatory Governance - A critical and empirical analysis International Conference of Energy Research and Social Sciences (ERSS-2022)
University of Manchester, ERSS journal, Elsevier (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2021/10/07 Energy Citizenship - Examining the call for political participation of citizens in Positive Energy Districts International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP-2021)
Department of Education (Roma Tre University), Siracusa Architecture school (University of Catania), under auspices of Division of Environmental Psychology of the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP) (Siracusa, Italy)
2020/08/21 Energy citizenship in the making International Sustainability Transition Conference (IST-2020)
Center for Innovation Systems & Policy (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology), and Sustainable Transition Research Network (STRN). (Vienna, Austria)

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/09/01 - 2020/09/30 Asia Pacific Viewpoint (1467-8373) Wiley Online Library

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/11/20 - 2022/10/15 System thinking analysis for the implementation of Electric Vehicle charging points in Torres Vedras Câmara municipal de Torres Vedras, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/03/09 - 2020/03/09 Energy and behaviours Social studies of the Environment and Sustainability (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização)) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/05/16 Interview with Cis on International day of Light Cis, ISCTE
Distinctions

Award

2023 ISCTE I&D award for publication in Q1 journal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal