Professor Bronwen Morgan has secured Aus$817,858 (£535,000), funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, as sole Principal Investigator for a project entitled “Between Social Enterprise and Social Movement: Responses to Climate Change at the Intersection of Rights and Regulation”. She has also secured US$125,000 (£78,000) from the International Development Research Centre in Canada, as a co-Principal Investigator with Navroz K. Dubash from the Centre for Policy Research, India, for a project entitled “Climate Change as a Challenge of Multilevel Governance: Relations Among National Institutions in India and South Africa, and with the Emerging Global Climate Institutions”.
Bronwen Morgan has had two recent grant successes. She has secured Aus$817,858 (£535,000), funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, as sole Principal Investigator for a project entitled “Between Social Enterprise and Social Movement: Responses to Climate Change at the Intersection of Rights and Regulation”. This socio-legal project is an empirical study of grassroots initiatives that respond to the challenges of reducing our carbon footprint. The project will study a range of initiatives ranging from social movements to social enterprises, including hybrid responses which blend elements of both ‘agitation’ and ‘incubation’. The project will help both policymakers and ordinary citizens understand better how formal laws block or facilitate such initiatives. Intellectually the project will forge novel links between the study of social movements and of social enterprise, and contribute to theories of changing habits and practices in relation to climate change, using an innovative socio-legal analytical framework of rights and regulation. Practically, it will help develop the foundations for designing effective governance structures that will support ethically-motivated citizen initiatives.
She has secured US$125,000 (£78,000) from the International Development Research Centre in Canada, as a co-Principal Investigator with Navroz K. Dubash from the Centre for Policy Research, India, for a project entitled “Climate Change as a Challenge of Multilevel Governance: Relations Among National Institutions in India and South Africa, and with the Emerging Global Climate Institutions” . This project will study emergent models of ‘dispersed’ climate governance, focusing on inter-institutional communication and coordination within countries, and between countries and emergent procedurally-focused global climate architecture. The project will combine case studies of national and sub-national policy agendas in South Africa and India (especially in relation to the integration of the climate change agenda into pre-existing policy agendas around water, energy, urban infrastructure and the like), with an exploration of how these link to procedures for monitoring, reporting and verification requirements being developed at the global level in relation to mitigation and adaptation.
