ProfessorLynne Chester

Project Opportunities

Title: Energy and heterodox (non-conventional) economics

Summary of opportunity:

Lynne’s research spans two fields: energy and heterodox (non-conventional) economics. She is recognised as a leading Australian scholar of French Régulation theory, a heterodox school of economic thought inspired by Marxian and (Original) Institutional Economics, to advance understanding of contemporary 'energy and society' issues. Her research contributes to debates on electricity price formation, household energy (un)affordability, energy (in)justice, energy problematisation, energy security and crises, the economic-energy-environment relation, and the economic regulation of energy sectors.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

Lynne’s energy research ranges across the specificities of the Australian electricity sector, the structure and outcomes of energy markets, household energy affordability, energy (in)justice, the formation of electricity prices, the financialisation of energy sectors, the institutions (including economic regulatory regimes) of energy sectors, the policy responses of governments to energy issues, how energy issues are problematised, energy crises and security of supply, and the economic-energy-environment relation.

Current projects

• Energy (in)justice
• Social ontology of energy
• Problematisation of energy issues
• Economic-environment-energy relation
• Economic regulation of energy sectors
• Energy (un)affordability for low-income households
• Electricity price formation
• Women and heterodox economics
• Positionality transparency and heterodox economics

----------Current Research Projects----------

• Energy (in)justice
• Social ontology of energy
• Problematisation of energy issues
• Economic-environment-energy relation
• Economic regulatory regimes for energy sectors
• Energy (un)affordability for low-income households
• Electricity price formation
• Women and heterodox economics
• Positionality transparency and heterodox economics