PdH at Technical University of Denmark – Bourses de recherche Danemark 2018

A new PhD scholarship focussing on ‘wind energy and society’ is being offered through a collaboration between two DTU departments: DTU Management Engineering and DTU Wind Energy. The successful candidate will be formally hosted by DTU Management Engineering, in the Industrial Dynamics and Strategy (IDS) group at the Technology and Innovation Management division, on the Lyngby campus. The IDS group focuses on understanding change processes of wider innovation systems and empirically has a stronghold in the sectors of energy and cleantech. There will be co-supervision by DTU Wind Energy on the Risø campus where the candidate is expected to spend time with the small but growing social science community in the department. Denmark is still world leading when it comes to utilising wind energy for power production, but wind power projects on land have become increasingly contested, which has led to a halt in the integration of more land based wind power into the Danish energy system. However, existing research suggests that the development of wind energy projects on land, which are locally co-developed and –owned, is associated with several benefits, such as less opposition towards wind power, local economic progress, business development and improved social coherence and empowerment in rural communities.