Dr. Aoife Brophy Haney

Aoife was a senior researcher at the Group for Sustainability and Technology, ETH Zurich and an associate researcher at the Download Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge. Aoife’s research focuses on how organisations understand, adapt to and shape changes in the external environment related to sustainability. Her main focus has been on the energy industry, where the many technological and regulatory changes facing organizations require new ways of thinking and doing. Aoife currently has two main streams of research. The first focuses on cognition at different levels (individual, organisational, field) as it relates to organisational and institutional change. The second explores how new, interdependent technologies affect organisational learning and collaboration. Aoife has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods, and has a particular interest in new forms of automated textual analysis such as topic modelling. 

Aoife received her B.A. in Download European Studies from Trinity College, Dublin in 2003. She received her M.A. in International Economics and Policy from the Download School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in 2008, with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2013, she completed her PhD in Management at the Download Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Before starting her PhD, Aoife worked as a research assistant with the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge. She was involved in a wide range of projects from investigating international experience with smart metering and energy efficiency policies to assessing advances in benchmarking methods for energy network regulation. During her time as a research assistant and a PhD student, she was involved in several consulting projects for industry, for the World Bank and for the UK government.

Selected Talks

• June 30, 2017: “Talking about renewables: Tensions in the emergence of field identity”, MOC-TIM Conference, Zurich/Switzerland (A.B Haney and J. Meuer)
• June 30, 2017: “Opportunity Incorporated? An Individual-level Study of Organizational Identity Perception In Times of Environmental Change”, MOC-TIM Conference, Zurich/Switzerland (F. Frei, A.B. Haney and J. Hoppmann)
• July 7, 2017: “Talking about renewables: Tensions in the emergence of field identity”, EGOS, Copenhagen/Denmark (A.B Haney and J. Meuer)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Haney, A. B. (2017): "Threat interpretation and innovation in the context of climate change: An ethical perspective." Journal of Business Ethics, 143 (2), 261-276. Download doi: 10.1007/s10551-015-2591-7
  
• Haney, A. B.; Pollitt, M. G. (2013): "New Models of Public Ownership in Energy." International Review of Applied Economics, 27(2), 174-192. Download doi: 10.1080/02692171.2012.734790
  
• Haney, A. B.; Pollitt, M. G. (2013): "International benchmarking of electricity transmission by regulators: A contrast between theory and practice?" Energy Policy, 62 (2013), 267-281. Download doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.042
  
• Haney, A. B.; Pollitt, M. G. (2011): "Exploring the determinants of 'best practice' benchmarking in electricity network regulation." Energy Policy, 39(12), 7739-7746. Download doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.09.018
• Haney, A. B.; Pollitt, M. G. (2009): "Efficiency analysis of energy networks: An international survey of regulators." Energy Policy, 37(12), 5814-5830. Download doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.047
  
• Grubb, M.; Haney, A. B.; Wilde, J. (2009): "Plugging the gap in energy efficiency policies: The emergence of the UK 'Carbon Reduction Commitment'." European Review of Energy Markets, 3(2), 33-62. Download Download

Books

• Daly, I.; Haney, A. B. (eds.) (2014): "53 Interesting Ways to Communicate Your Research" Newmarket: The Professional and Higher Partnership. Download ISBN:9781907076633