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Marcus Erridge is an experienced researcher, writer, data analyst and administrator. He holds a Masters degree in Human Rights (Distinction) from the School of Advanced Study, University of London and a PhD in Human Rights (Summa Cum Laude) from the Centre of Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. His research focuses on intersections of data, Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), human rights, sanitation, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the green transition. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU Horizon GREENPATHS project at CES, investigating the social impacts of green transition policy. He has administrative experience in higher education settings and front-line experience in public facing help-desk and service roles. As a data analyst, senior researcher and consultant for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), he has managed and assisted a wide range of research projects. Marcus has experience collecting, cleaning, analysing and synthesising both quantitative and quantitative data, scheduling and conducting interviews, facilitating focus groups and large stakeholder meetings, conducting literature reviews, designing, managing and analysing surveys, producing written reports, dashboards and data visualisations. Working in-person and remotely alongside multidisciplinary teams, he is used to communicating with a diverse pool of stakeholders, clients and partners to identify their research needs, gathering data and unpacking phenomena, to produce reports and presentations that provided discernible research insights in accessible and engaging ways. He has a published a number of academic articles, blogs and book chapters.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marcus Erridge

Citation names

  • Erridge, Marcus

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DE1E-AAB4-8A99
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8330-9884

Email addresses

  • marcuserridge@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 239855570 (Professional)

Addresses

  • CES ALTA, Colégio de S. Jerónimo, Apartado 3087, 3000-995 , Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences
  • Humanities - Other Humanities
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Information Science

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/10/23 - 2023/02/07
Concluded
Direitos Humanos nas Sociedades Contemporâneas (Doctorate)
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
"Data, Demand and Sanitation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Summa Cum Laude
2010 - 2011
Concluded
Understanding and Securing Human Rights (Master)
University of London School of Advanced Study Institute of Commonwealth Studies, United Kingdom
"Talking Sh1t: Getting the Message Across." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction
1996 - 1998
Concluded
Film, Media, and Culture (Diplôme d´études supérieures)
Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom
Diploma of Higher Education (DipHe)
1994 - 1996
Concluded
A-Levels (Bakkalaurea)
Major in Classical Civilizations, Media Studies, English Language
Peter Symonds' College, United Kingdom
Grades C-E
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/02/01 - Current Postdoctoral Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/05 - 2020/10 Research Consultant Data Yarns, United Kingdom
2015/06 - 2017/07 Senior Researcher Community Research Partners / Thoughtwell, United States
2013/04 - 2015/06 Data Analyst YWCA, United States
2012/07 - 2013/04 Volunteer / Consultant ATD 4th World Movement, United States
2012/01 - 2012/05 Administrative Assistant - Research and Innovation Services University of Southampton, United Kingdom
2008/02 - 2011/10 Postgraduate Student Officer / Events Administrator University of London School of Advanced Study, United Kingdom
2011/03 - 2011/09 Volunteer / Administrative Assistant WaterAid, United Kingdom
2010/02 - 2010/05 Volunteer Visitor Detention Action, United Kingdom
2007/08 - 2008/02 Administrative Assistant - School of Arts University of Roehampton, United Kingdom
2005/03 - 2007/07 Master's Program Coordinator University of Southampton Civil and Environmental Engineering, United Kingdom
2004/02 - 2004/08 Administrative Assistant University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science, United Kingdom
2001/10 - 2004/02 Facilities Assistant Bacardi-Martini Ltd., United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/01 - Current Freelance proofreader and copy editor. Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/09/01 - Current EcoGraphies of Grief: Assessing Climate Intangible Loss and Distress in Rural Portugal
COMPETE2030-FEDER-00885100
Post-doc
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/02/01 - Current GREENPATHS: European Knowledge Hub on Just Transition Pathways
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. "Human Right to Sanitation". In Clean Water and Sanitation, Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Leal Filho et al.. Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_171-1
  2. Claudia Abreu Lopes; Erridge, Marcus. "Digital technologies for sustainable development: Producing the 'new oil' or reinforcing inequity?". In Digital technologies for sustainable development, edited by Andrew, J.; Bernard, F.. Hart Publishing, 2020.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Erridge, Marcus. "Participatory Data and the SDGs". Paper presented in IV Congresso Internacional de Direitos Humanos de Coimbra (CIDH), Coimbra, 2019.
    In press
Journal article
  1. Erridge, Marcus. Corresponding author: Erridge, Marcus. "Social Impacts of the Green Transition: Prospective Environmental (in)Justice and Future Vulnerabilities in Europe's Peripheries". Politics and Governance 14 (2026):
    Accepted
  2. Erridge, Marcus. "Hey Flint! It is Safe to Wash". Cabo Dos Trabalho: Human Rights: Critical Perspectives for the 21st Century 19 (2020): https://cabodostrabalhos.ces.uc.pt/n19/index.php.
    Published
Online resource
  1. Erridge, Marcus. Sanitation in Crises: World Toilet Day 2024, a reflection. 2024. https://greenpaths.info/sanitation-in-crises-world-toilet-day-2024-a-reflection-by-marcus-erridge-ces/.
  2. Erridge, Marcus. Sanitation: Expanding the rights paradigm.. 2022. https://alicenews.ces.uc.pt/index.php?lang=1&id=39598.
  3. Erridge, Marcus. Toilet Talks for World Toilet Day, 2019. 2019. https://alicenews.ces.uc.pt/index.php?lang=1&id=27163.
  4. Erridge, Marcus. Toilet Talks. 2019. https://marcuserridge9.wixsite.com/toilettalks/.
  5. Erridge, Marcus. Bathroom Discrimination: A Human Rights Violation. 2018. https://rightsblog.net/2018/11/19/bathroom-discrimination-a-human-rights-violation/.
  6. Community Research Partners / Thoughtwell. Fox Cities Life Study. 2016. http://www.foxcitieslifestudy.org/.
Report
  1. Erridge, Marcus. Corresponding author: Erridge, Marcus. 2025. Lithium Mining and the ‘Green Sacrificial Logics’ of the Energy Transition in Barroso, Portugal. https://greenpaths.info/cs01/.
  2. Erridge, Marcus. Corresponding author: Erridge, Marcus. 2025. Europe’s Yellowstone? An analysis of the social impacts of forest conservation in Romania. https://greenpaths.info/cs02/.
  3. Erridge, Marcus. Corresponding author: Erridge, Marcus. 2025. D3.4. Case Study Report: Synthesis of WP3 results. https://greenpaths.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/D3.4.-Synthesis-of-WP3-results.pdf.
  4. Erridge, Marcus. 2025. D3.3 Summary of GreenPaths case studies. https://greenpaths.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/D3.3-FINAL-VERSION-CLEAN-submitted.pdf.
  5. Erridge, Marcus. Corresponding author: Erridge, Marcus. 2024. D3.1 Conceptual and methodological guidelines and reporting template for WP3 Case Studies..
  6. Erridge, Marcus. Corresponding author: Erridge, Marcus. 2024. D2.4 GreenPaths Analytical Framework, Indicators and Tools, for the Implementation of WP3 Case Studies.
  7. Community Research Partners / Thoughtwell. 2017. Health and Equity in All Policies (HEiAP) - Enacting HEiAP: Literature Review and Case Studies. https://www.thoughtwell.org/projects/2018/6/21/health-and-equity-in-all-policies-heiap-enacting-heiap-literature-review-and-case-studies.
  8. Community Research Partners / Thoughtwell. 2017. Franklin County Youth Needs Assessment, 2017. https://www.thoughtwell.org/projects/2017/9/12/franklin-county-youth-needs-assessment-birth-12.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Erridge, Marcus. "Talking Sh1t: Getting the Message Across". Master, University of London School of Advanced Study Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2011. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/WaterAndSanitation/SRWater/Pages/Contributionsstigmatization.aspx.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2026/04/24 The Social Lives of Blue Carbon: Developing an Interdisciplinary Citizen Science Framework for a Conservation Basic Income (CBI) RISE - Risk(s), Ecologies, Health research Line Seminar Series
CES (Coimbra, Portugal)
2026/01/29 Sacrificial Logics and Contested Rights: The Political Economy of Lithium Mining in Barroso, Portugal Panel: Political Economy and Sociology: From Laboratories to the Territory: Conflicts over Justice in the Technoscientific Era. 9th Annual Political Economy Meeting: Fundamental rights, well-being and quality of life,
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto e Católica Porto Business School da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
2025/09/27 Lithium Mining in Barroso, Portugal, GreenPaths partners Panel 6:03: Green and Just Transition Pathways in the EU ELU-S 2025: “European Law Unbound: What Kind of Europe Can We Reach For?”
Law Faculty of Charles University, Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2025/05/20 - 2025/05/20 GreenPaths Webinar: Situating convivial conservation in the Just Transition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZnSbtavHe4 (2025/05/20 - 2025/05/20)
Seminar (Co-organiser)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2025/03/11 - 2025/03/11 GreenPaths Webinar: How the lithium rush is producing sacrifice zones in Europe and beyond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-BTgVv3Xo4 (2025/03/11 - 2025/03/11)
Seminar (Co-organiser)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/11/11 - 2019/11/19 Toilet Talks was a virtual event for World Toilet Day 2019. I created the concept, built a website and collected short audio talks on the theme of WTD - 'leaving no-one behind' and 'the social, economic and environmental consequences of inaction' - from a dozen WASH professionals and researchers around the world. Toilet Talks posters were circulated online and posted in public bathrooms. They included a smartphone-readable barcode linked the Toilet Talks website, which received 820 visits from 662 visitors in 63 countries.. (2019/11/11 - 2019/11/19)
Other (Other)
2018/10/25 - 2018/10/27 Advanced training course in human rights organised with PhD colleagues at the University of Coimbra. https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2018/direitos-humanos (2018)
Other (Co-organiser)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Films For Action. Ran a human rights documentary and discussion film series in Columbus, OH. (2013 - 2013)
2009 - 2010 Organised two human rights theatre events at the University of London with Actors for Human Rights. looking at issues of refugee detention, torture and rendition. (2009 - 2010)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2026/04/27 - 2026/04/27 Role as moderator for day-long EcoGrief project workshop panel discussions.
Workshop
Witnessing Eco-Grief | Thinking/feeling on what it means to grieve for natures
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2024/11/16 - 2024/11/16 Seminar attendance, Making Sense of Community-Engaged Research Methods: Stories from the Field, For the Field
Seminar
Making Sense of Community-Engaged Research Methods
2023/09/02 - 2023/09/04 Global Gathering, digital rights community event
Congress
Global Gathering

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2026/03/01 - 2026/03/12 Urban Studies SAGE Publishing

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/11/01 - Current Postdoctoral Researcher Representative. CES, Univesity of Coimbra

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2018/10 - 2021/12/31 Acted as volunteer editor from 2018, then Editor-in-Chief (2020-2021) for Rights! - an international human rights blog. https://rightsblog.net/about/
Other
European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Italy

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/11/01 - Current Postdoctoral Researcher Representative, CES. Organsing meetings, collecting and representing the concerns and interests of the institutes postdoctoral-level researchers. Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/01 - 2024/01/01 Self-employed English language proofreading and copy editing services for academic articles. The majority of assignments are quick-turnaround proofreading and editing of articles and book chapters for Portuguese writers, a small pool of recurring clients looking to publish in British or American English. In addition to language and grammar checks, the majority of academic material stems from the fields of sociology, political science and human rights, for which I am able to bring a little knowledge of the subject matter.