Athina Piterou
Job title
Lecturer, Sustainability
Department
Systems Management and Strategy
Qualifications
PhD Brunel Business School, MSc Technology Management University of Manchester
Athina Piterou’s PhD research was linked to the ESRC project dematerialising the printed paper text (Sustainable Technologies Programme). It addressed the emergence of the e-book, considering how information technology applications could alleviate the environmental effects of print. Athina is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI), University of Westminster, where she was involved in mapping interactions between participant organisations in the Sustainable Development Research Network.
Research/scholarly interests
- Relationship between innovation and environmental sustainability
- Socio-technical transitions area using insights from science and technology studies
- Socio-technical change is examined from a relational perspective focusing on the long-term transformation of systems that address societal needs
- Relationships between stakeholders, technical artefacts and embedded practices are taken into account
- A further area of interest is the application of social network methodology to the mapping of scientific networks.
Selected publications
Piterou, A., Shackley, S., and Upham, P. (2008) Project ARBRE: Lessons for bio-energy developers and policy makers. Energy Policy, 36(6), pp. 2044–2050.
Conference papers
Piterou, A., and Steward, F. 2008. Emerging sustainable Innovation networks and the print on paper socio-technical regime. SCORE conference, Brussels.
Piterou, A., and Steward, F. 2010. A network perspective on socio-technical transitions: the print-on-paper socio-technical system. EASST Conference, Trento.
