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Dr Adam Standring is an invited auxiliary researcher at ISEG and currently works on the H2020 project Sustainable intensification of food production through resilient farming systems in West & North Africa (SustInAfrica). Prior to this he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at De Montfort University, UK and a post-doctoral research fellow Örebro University, Sweden. He has also been an invited research fellow at the Geary Institute of Public Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland, and is an associated researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science (CESSS) at Örebro University. He completed his doctorate in Political Science (specializing in Public Policy) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2018 and holds a Masters in Politics from the University of York, UK. His research primarily focuses on the political sociology of expertise and knowledge production in complex and contested policy fields. His work is interdisciplinary, bridging the fields of environmental sociology, political science, public policy and human geography. He has published in top disciplinary journals including, Nature Climate Change, WIRES Climate Change, Dialogues in Human Geography, European Journal of Political Research and Policy & Politics. He also has published book chapters in edited volumes for Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan and Rowman & Littlefield. His current research interests have focused on the politics of expertise in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, knowledge for policymaking in times of crisis and the role of social science in transformative change.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Adam Standring

Citation names

  • Standring, Adam

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3A1D-69D7-20FC
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3477-6811

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2012/09 - 2018/09
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Ciência Política (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Evidence Framed Policy Making: Knowledge Production and the Depoliticization of European Drug Policies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009/10 - 2011/10
Concluded
 MA in Politics (by research) (Master)
University of York Department of Politics, United Kingdom
"The Europeanisation of the UK Drug Policy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002/10 - 2006/07/14
Concluded
 BA (Hons) in English and Related Literature (Bachelor)
University of York Department of English and Related Literature, United Kingdom
 2:2
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02/01 - Current Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
2022/04/04 - 2024/01/31 Postdoc (Research) De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, United Kingdom
2023/10/16 - 2023/11/15 Visiting Researcher (Research) University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Ireland
Geary Institute of Public Policy, Ireland
2019/10/01 - 2022/03/31 Postdoc (Research) Örebro Universitet, Sweden
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/30 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/03/31 - Current Affiliated Researcher Örebro Universitet, Sweden
Centre for Environment and Sustainability Social Science, Sweden
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/04/04 - 2024/01/01 Crisis, Housing and Austerity: the emergence of a new Moral Politics?
101031384
Principal investigator
European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
Concluded
2017/04/01 - 2019/08/30 The anti-politics of austerity: exploring the scalar and spatial dimensions of political crisis and renewal in Europe
ISRF-FG3-1
Principal investigator
Independent Social Research Foundation
Concluded
2017/06/01 - 2019/06/01 The Politics of Constraints: Communicative Dissonances and their Effects on Citizens
FCSH-2017-FEG
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Concluded
2013/05/03 - 2017/10/01 Democracy in times of crisis: Power and Discourse in a three-level game
PTDC/IVC-CPO/2247/2014
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013/04/01 - 2017/03/31 Evidence Framed Policy Making: Knowledge Production and the Depoliticization of European Drug Policies
SFRH / BD / 86762 / 2012
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015 - 2017 Accountability in Post-Crisis Politics: Discourse, Decision-making and Democracy
FCSH-EG-2015
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/02/01 - Current Sustainable intensification of food production through resilient farming systems in West & North Africa (SustInAfrica)
861924
Researcher
ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2022/03/01 - Current ACCTING - AdvanCing¿behavioural Change Through an¿INclusive¿Green deal
101036504
Researcher
Örebro Universitet, Sweden
 European Commission
Ongoing
2019/10/01 - 2022/03/31 The shaping of environmental expertise. Institutionalized expertise, boundary organizations and global environmental matters.
VR2019
Post-doc Fellow
Vetenskapsradet, Sweden
 Vetenskapsradet
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Buller, Jim; Dönmez, Pinar; Standring, Adam; Wood, Matt. Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe. Springer International Publishing. 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-319-64236-9 • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Lidskog, Rolf; Standring, Adam. "COVID-19 and the Environmental Crises: Knowledge, Social Order and Transformative Change". In Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty, 267-293. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-95167-2_11
  2. Standring, Adam; Tulumello, Simone. "Geographies of the Knowledge Economy on the Semi-Periphery: The Contradictions of Neoliberalisation and Precarity in Portugal". In The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age: Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education. United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlfield, 2022.
    Published
  3. Standring, Adam. "Participant Diversity". In A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 61-70. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
    10.1017/9781009082099.010
  4. Standring, Adam; Donoghue, Matthew. "Moral Critique in an Age of Multiple Crises: Towards Transformative Change". In The Crisis and Future of Democracy, 544-575. Brussels, Belgium: Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung Europe, 2022.
    Published
  5. Standring, Adam; Tulumello, Simone. "Geographies of the knowledge economy in the semi-periphery. The contradictions of neoliberalization and precarity in Portugal". In The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age. Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education, edited by Cruickshank, Justin; Abbinnett, Ross, 211-222. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
    Published
  6. Standring, Adam. "The Nova Portugalidade affair and the politicization of campus free speech in Portugal". In Free Speech Wars. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2020.
    Accepted
  7. Standring, Adam. "Ireland". In Capitalising on constraint: Bailout politics in Eurozone countries. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2020.
    Published
  8. Cardoso, Daniel; Standring, Adam. "The politicisation of campus free speech in Portugal". In The free speech wars. How did we get here and why does it matter?., edited by Charlotte Lydia Riley. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2020.
    Published
  9. Standring, Adam. "Portugal and the European Union: Defining and Contesting the Boundaries of the Political". In Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe, edited by Buller, Jim; Dönmez, Pinar; Standring, Adam; Wood, Matt, 131-154. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-64236-9_6
  10. Jim Buller; Pinar E. Dönmez; Adam Standring; Matthew Wood. "Depoliticisation, post-politics and the problem of change". 1-24. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-64236-9_1
  11. Standring, Adam. "Evidence-based policymaking as depoliticised governance strategy: the case of European drug policy". In Evidence in European social drug research and drug policy, edited by O'Gorman, Aileen; Potter, Gary R.; Fountain, Jane. Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science publishers, 2016.
    Published
Book review
  1. Standring, Adam. "Valerá a Pena Salvar Esta Democracia". (2018):
    Published
  2. Adam Standring. "Morality Policies in Europe". 13, 3 (2015): 450-451. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/0e7e38c1-7750-4795-81d5-8472bd0fa367.
    10.1111/1478-9302.12100_93
Conference paper
  1. Elisabetta De Giorgi; Rui Branco; Catherine Moury; Adam Standring. "Accountability in Post-Crisis Politics". 2017.
  2. Catherine Moury; Adam Standring. ""Aren’t there any alternatives"?". 2015.
Journal article
  1. Rolf Lidskog; Adam Standring. "Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC". Climatic Change (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03812-4.
    10.1007/s10584-024-03812-4
  2. Rolf Lidskog; Adam Standring. "Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders". Environmental Policy and Governance (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2083.
    10.1002/eet.2083
  3. Davies, Jonathan S.; Standring, Adam. "Beyond the consolations of professionalism: resisting alienation at the neoliberal university". Soundings 84 84 (2023): 13-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/soun.84-85.01.2023.
    10.3898/soun.84-85.01.2023
  4. Asayama, Shinichiro; De Pryck, Kari; Beck, Silke; Cointe, Béatrice; Edwards, Paul N.; Guillemot, Hélène; Gustafsson, Karin M.; et al. "Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC". Nature Climate Change 13 9 (2023): 877-880. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01780-8.
    Published • 10.1038/s41558-023-01780-8
  5. Rolf Lidskog; Adam Standring; James M. White. "Environmental expertise for social transformation: roles and responsibilities for social science". Environmental Sociology 8 3 (2022): 255-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2022.2048237.
    10.1080/23251042.2022.2048237
  6. Standring, Adam; Donoghue, Matthew. "Moral crisis/moral critique?". Soundings 80 80 (2022): 51-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/soun.80.04.2022.
    10.3898/soun.80.04.2022
  7. Adam Standring; Rolf Lidskog. "(How) Does Diversity Still Matter for the IPCC? Instrumental, Substantive and Co-Productive Logics of Diversity in Global Environmental Assessments". Climate 9 6 (2021): 99-99. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9060099.
    10.3390/cli9060099
  8. Rolf Lidskog; Ingemar Elander; Adam Standring. "COVID-19, the Climate, and Transformative Change: Comparing the Social Anatomies of Crises and Their Regulatory Responses". Sustainability 12 16 (2020): 6337-6337. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166337.
    10.3390/su12166337
  9. Mike Hulme; Rolf Lidskog; James M. White; Adam Standring. "Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa)". WIREs Climate Change (2020): https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.656.
    10.1002/wcc.656
  10. Standring, Adam; Howarth, David; Huntley, Scott. "From the Ontological Politics to the Political Ontology of Drug Policy". International Journal of Drug Policy (2020):
    Submitted
  11. Howarth, D.; Standring, A.; Huntly, S.. "Contingent, contested and constructed: a poststructuralist response to Stevens’ ontological politics of drug policy". International Journal of Drug Policy (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85092032326&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102965
  12. Standring, A.; Davies, J.. "From crisis to catastrophe: The death and viral legacies of austere neoliberalism in Europe?". Dialogues in Human Geography 10 2 (2020): 146-149. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85086260585&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1177/2043820620934270
  13. Lidskog, R.; Standring, A.. "The institutional machinery of expertise: Producing facts, figures and futures in COVID-19". Acta Sociologica (United Kingdom) 63 4 (2020): 443-446. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85092126073&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1177/0001699320961807
  14. Standring, Adam; Tulumello, Simone. "Geographies of the Knowledge Economy: the Spatiality of Precarity in the Neoliberal Academy". Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 10 (2019): 81-89. https://social-epistemology.com/2019/10/11/geographies-of-the-knowledge-economy-on-the-semi-periphery-the-contradictions-of-neoliberalisation-and-precarity-in-portugal-adam-standring-and-simone-tulumello/.
    Published
  15. Standring, Adam. "Relational expertise and the spatial (re)production of austerity: Challenges and opportunities for progressive politics". Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654419873674.
    10.1177/2399654419873674
  16. Standring, A.. "Depoliticising austerity: Narratives of the Portuguese debt crisis 2011-15". Policy and politics 46 1 (2018): 149-164. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85040682365&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1332/030557317X14866576265977
  17. Standring, A.. "Evidence-based policymaking and the politics of neoliberal reason: a response to Newman". Critical Policy Studies 11 2 (2017): 227-234. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85015198159&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/19460171.2017.1304226
  18. Moury, C.; Standring, A.. "‘Going beyond the Troika’: Power and discourse in Portuguese austerity politics". European Journal of Political Research 56 3 (2017): 660-679. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85010617563&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/1475-6765.12190
  19. Standring, A.. "“An ever closer union¿…¿” – towards the “soft” convergence of European drug policies". Drugs and Alcohol Today 12 1 (2012): 12-19. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861349730&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1108/17459261211211656
Newspaper article
  1. Standring, Adam. "Climate politics is more complex and urgent than ever – is the IPCC still fit for purpose?", The Guardian, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/05/climate-politics-ipcc-emergency.
Preprint
  1. Adam Standring. "Who and what are represented in the IPCC’s assessments? Institutional diversity and the politics of representation in global environmental assessments". 2023. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3317424/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-3317424/v1
Working paper
  1. Adam Standring. 2012. "The Europeanization of Drug Supply Reduction Policies". https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/cbcfc9e3-e94b-4b67-8764-3cdf0cd64b53.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/02/10 - Current Community effects of Brazilian mining disasters
Supervisor
 Sustainable Development (Sociology)
Örebro Universitet, Sweden

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/11/26 - Current Workshop on Expertise in Environmental Governance (2020/11/26 - 2020/11/27)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Örebro Universitet, Sweden
2017/04/20 - Current ISRF Funded Workshop - Anti-Politics and Austerity (2017/04/20)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015/06/12 - Current 3rd Workshop on Depoliticization, University of Sheffield, UK “There is no alternative” Discourse and depoliticization in Portugal, 2011-2015 (2015/06/12)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
2024/10/16 - 2024/10/18 Climate learning through gaming: A critical playthrough of the boardgame Daybreak (2024/10/18 - 2024/10/18)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Wageningen University, Netherlands
2023/04/25 - 2023/04/28 ‘Moral Politics in, for and against transformative change’ in ECPR Joint Sessions, Toulouse, France (2023/04/25 - 2023/04/28)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Université de Toulouse, France
2014/07/08 - 2014/07/11 ECPR Research Sessions - Preparation of Levershulme Grant application and book proposal on depoliticization. (2014/07/08 - 2014/07/11)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 European Consortium for Political Research, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/11/12 - Current ICS/expert Seminar: Expertise, objectivity and the spatial (re)production of austerity ICS/expert Seminar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Portugal
2024/10/16 - 2024/10/18 Informal Functionality in Sustainability Science: The Politics of Co-Production in Action in North-South Sustainability Transformations
Conference
 Wageningen Conference 2024: Governing Sustainability Transformations
Wageningen University, Netherlands
2023/09/04 - 2023/09/08 Untangling morals, ideology, and discourse: implications for the analysis of policy
Conference
 ECPR General Conference, Prague, Czechia
Univerzita Karlova, Czech Republic
2023/07/05 - 2023/07/06 From moral critique to moral politics: Bridging everyday struggles and structural transformations in the urban crises.
Workshop
 Workshop: How to be an Anticapitalist City in the 21stC. Sheffield, UK.
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
2023/05/25 - 2023/05/26 From moral critique to moral politics
Workshop
 Workshop: What Makes Urban Life Worth Living? Lisbon, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/03/23 - 2023/03/27 From moral critique to moral politics: Bridging everyday struggles and structural transformations in the urban crises.
Conference
 Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, USA
University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
2022/06/29 - 2022/07/01 ‘The (New) Moral Politics of Post-Crisis European Policy’
Conference
 Council for European Studies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/06/14 - 2022/06/16 ‘Crisis, housing and austerity: the emergence of a new moral politics’
Conference
 CURA Conference on the Post-Pandemic City, Leicester, UK/Digital
De Montfort University, United Kingdom
2022/03/16 - 2022/03/18 ‘The IPCC and epistemic infrastructures for transformative change’
Conference
 Swedish Sociological Association Conference, Uppsala, Sweden
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/15 Presentation and discussion of ‘Participant Diversity’ chapter for edited volume in the IPCC
Workshop
 Workshop on A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
University of Cambridge Department of Geography, United Kingdom
2021/09/01 - 2021/09/03 Who’s to blame for the climate crisis? The IPCC, the institutionalization of global climate knowledge
Conference
 European Sociological Association Conference (Barcelona/Digital)
Universitat de Bardelona Departament de Sociologia, Spain
2020/08/18 - 2020/08/21 Restating the Political in Climate Science Debates
Conference
 4S EASST (Prague/Digital)
Univerzita Karlova, Czech Republic
2020/03/02 - 2020/03/04 Restating the Political in Climate Science Debates
Conference
 International Seminar on Environmental Sociology, Lisbon, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/12/04 - 2019/12/05 The Politics of Harm and the Quantification of Drug Policy
Conference
 ‘Ethics of Quantification’ Workshop, University of Bergen, Norway
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
2018/04/10 - 2018/04/14 Politics without choice: discourse and democracy in a three-level game
Workshop
 ECPR Joint Sessions
European Consortium for Political Research, United Kingdom
2016/04/25 - 2016/04/28 Was Plato Right? Should the Experts Rule?
Workshop
 ECPR Joint Sessions
European Consortium for Political Research, United Kingdom
2016/03/21 - 2016/03/23 Evidence-based policymaking as depoliticized mode of governance
Conference
 66th Political Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, Brighton, UK
Political Studies Association, United Kingdom
2015/03/30 - 2015/04/01 From PIIGS to the Good Pupil: Discursive depoliticization in the Portuguese Sovereign Debt Crisis
Conference
 65th Political Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, Sheffield, UK
Political Studies Association, United Kingdom

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2014/07/11 - 2018/04/07 Co-convener of the PSA's Anti-Politics and Depoliticization Specialist Group
Coordinator
 Political Studies Association, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - Current Masters in Research and Innovation for Sustainability (Mestrado) ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
2020/02/20 - Current Thematic Course in Sustainable Development Sustainable Development (Master) Örebro Universitet, Sweden

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019/08/01 - Current Palgrave Communications (2055-1045) Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Distinctions

Award

2019 Santander Totta/FCSH Prize for Internationalization in Scientific Publishing
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal