Dr Simon Mair
Lecturer - Circular Economy & Data Analy
Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Management (Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences) |
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s.mair1@bradford.ac.uk | |
Telephone | +441274 232167 |
Biography
Simon is an ecological economist. His work focuses on understanding the current economy in order to build a better one. He is currently working on questions of productivity, energy, value and work in sustainable economies. Simon is program lead for the Master in Business Administration in Innovation, Enterprise and Circular Economy, and is working on mainstreaming circular economy across the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum.
Simon was co-investigator on the ESRC funded “Powering Productivity” project, which mapped links between energy, wellbeing and productivity. He was a consultant researcher on the Productivity Insights Network funded project “Redefining SME Productivity Measurement and Assessment for a Low Carbon Economy.” His academic work has been published in Ecological Economics, The Lancet Planetary Health, and The Journal of Cleaner Production, amongst others. In addition to his academic publications he has been published in international outlets including BBC Future, The New European, and Open Democracy. He is currently UK country contact for the European Society of Ecological Economics.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal | |
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Title | Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link (2021) |
Authors | Isham, A; Mair, S., Jackson, T. |
Journal | Ecological Economics |
Title | Assessing the suitability of sustainability frameworks for embedding sustainability in higher education curricula: pragmatism versus transformation (2021) |
Authors | Druckman, A. and Mair, S. |
Journal | International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education |
Title | Neoliberal economics, planetary health, and the COVID-19 pandemic: a Marxist ecofeminist analysis (2020) |
Authors | Mair, S., |
Journal | The Lancet Planetary Health |
Title | A tale of two utopias: Work in a post-growth world (2020) |
Authors | Mair S.;Druckman A.;Jackson T. |
Journal | Ecological Economics |
DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106653 |
Title | Higher Wages for Sustainable Development? Employment and Carbon Effects of Paying a Living Wage in Global Apparel Supply Chains (2019) |
Authors | Mair S.;Druckman A.;Jackson T. |
Journal | Ecological Economics |
DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.007 |
Title | Investigating fairness in global supply chains: applying an extension of the living wage to the Western European clothing supply chain. (2018) |
Authors | Mair S;Druckman A;Jackson T; |
Journal | International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment |
DOI | 10.1007/s11367-017-1390-z |
Title | The challenges of applying planetary boundaries as a basis for strategic decision-making in companies with global supply chains (2017) |
Authors | Clift R.;Sim S.;King H.;Chenoweth J.;Christie I.;Clavreul J.;Mueller C.;Posthuma L.;Boulay A.;Chaplin-Kramer R.;Chatterton J.;DeClerck F.;Druckman A.;France C.;Franco A.;Gerten D.;Goedkoop M.;Hauschild M.;Huijbregts M.;Koellner T.;Lambin E.;Lee J.;Mair S.;Marshall S.;McLachlan M.;Milà i Canals L.;Mitchell C.;Price E.;Rockström J.;Suckling J.;Murphy R. |
Journal | Sustainability (Switzerland) |
DOI | 10.3390/su9020279 |
Title | Global inequities and emissions in Western European textiles and clothing consumption (2016) |
Authors | Mair S.;Druckman A.;Jackson T. |
Journal | Journal of Cleaner Production |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.082 |
Book Chapters | |
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Title | A Critical Review of the Role of Indicators in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (2018) |
Authors | Mair S.;Jones A.;Ward J.;Christie I.;Druckman A.;Lyon F. |
Journal | World Sustainability Series |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-63007-6_3 |
Title | Fairness and Globalisation in the Western European Clothing Supply Chain (2017) |
Authors | Mair, S., Druckman, A., Jackson, T. |
Journal | The Social Effects of Global Trade |
Publisher | Jenny Stanford Publishing |
Published Reports | |
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Title | Energy and Productivity—a review of the literature (2020) |
Authors | Elkomy, S; Mair, S; Jackson, T. |
Publisher | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity |
Title | ‘Redefining SME Productivity Measurement and Assessment for a Low Carbon Economy’ (2020) |
Authors | Owen, R.; Harrer, T.; Lodh, S.; Pates, R.; and Mair., S. |
Publisher | Productivity Insights Network |
Title | Wellbeing and productivity: a review of the literature (2020) |
Authors | Isham, A.; Mair, S.; Jackson, T. |
Publisher | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity |
Title | Mapping Method Report (2020) |
Authors | Boehnert, J.; Mair, S.; Landa-Avila, C. |
Publisher | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity |
Other Publications | |
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Other type | Blog |
Title | COVID-19 and the Economic Stories of our Time (2021) |
Authors | Mair, S. |
Publisher | European Association for Development Research and Training Institutes |
Other type | Magazine Article |
Title | Triggering the Right: The Role of Language in the Culture Wars (2021) |
Authors | Mair, S. |
Publisher | Current Affairs |
Other type | Newspaper Articles |
Title | What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures (2020) |
Authors | Mair, S. |
Publisher | The Conversation |
Other type | Newspaper Articles |
Title | Techno-fix futures will only accelerate climate chaos – don’t believe the hype (2019) |
Authors | Mair, S. and Boehnert., J |
Publisher | The Conversation |
Other type | Newspaper Articles |
Title | System Change, Not Climate Change! What ‘The Good Place’ can teach us about climate action (2019) |
Authors | Mair, S. |
Publisher | Open Democracy |
Other type | ANET/COS |
Title | Growing Pain: the delusion of boundless economic growth - a reply to Leigh Phillips (2019) |
Authors | Christie, I., Mair, S., and Gallant, B. |
Publisher | Open Democracy |
Other type | Newspaper Articles |
Title | How getting rid of shit jobs and the metric of productivity can combat climate change (2019) |
Authors | Mair, S. |
Publisher | The Conversation |
Other type | Magazine Article |
Title | Capitalism and Climate Change: A Political Marxist View (2019) |
Authors | Mair, S. |
Publisher | New Socialist |
Other type | Magazine Article |
Title | In the age of extinction, who is extreme? A response to Policy Exchange (2019) |
Authors | Mair, S. and Steinberger, J. |