Ross James Wallace (AC1A-5859-2D57)

Curriculum Vitae

Ross James Wallace

Identification

Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Psychology
Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016/09/01 - 2018/03/01 Concluded	Social Research (Mestrado) University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2011/08/01 - 2015/11/01 Concluded	Sociology (Bacharelato) Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Affiliation

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/07/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

Projects

	Designation	Funders
2019/07/01 - 2022/06/30	MISTRAL 813837 PhD Student Fellow Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal	European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Ongoing

	Designation	Funders
2024/04/01 - 2025/11/30	An updated framework on community acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures – Practical guidelines for solar plants as a case study B2023-01 Researcher ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal	Swiss Research Foundation for Electricity and Mobile Communication Ongoing

Outputs

Book chapter	Ross Wallace; Susana Batel. "Rescaling Renewable Energy Communities in Portugal: Expert Imaginaries of Business-As-Usual, the Empowered Citizen and the Smart Network". 2025. 10.1007/978-3-031-69918-4_5
Conference paper	Schwemmlein, Kaya; Wallace, Ross. "What kind of energy transition? When local knowledge meets renewable energy megaprojects in rural Portugal". Paper presented in VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, 2022.
Journal article	Wallace, R.; Batel, S.. "Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements". Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 54 1 (2024): 65-85. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jtsb.12398. Published • 10.1111/jtsb.12398

Other output

Expert engagements with future energy communities: examining tensions between imaginaries, justifications and institutions in Portugal. Politics of engagement and new social pragmatism, 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association, August 29. 2024. Wallace, R.; Batel, S..
From place imaginaries to regimes of engagement with alternative energy futures: a report from a Portuguese "sacrifice zone". Crises, conflicts, catastrophes - on the relationship between "self-vulnerabilization" and collective capacities for action from a convention theory perspective, SSA Congress 2024, FHNW Basel, September 10. 2024. Wallace, R.; Schwemmlein, K. ; Batel, S..
Conceptualizing and analysing social representations of the future in people-energy relations: an energy policy case study. International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP). 2021. Wallace, R..
Sociotechnical imaginaries and modes of engagement with the future: theoretical proposals for overcoming some limitations in the research on energy transitions and social acceptance. International Seminar for Environment and Society, Institute of Social Sciences (ICS). 2020. Wallace, R..