Ben Radley

Dr Ben Radley is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath, where he leads the Leverhulme-funded project Solar Labour and Value Chain Dynamics in Rwanda and Papua New Guinea. He collaborates on the six-year African Extractivism and the Green Transition project (funded by Canada’s SSHRC) and contributes to a Danish Ministry-funded study on lithium-ion battery chains.

• International Institute of Social Studies (PhD in Development Studies)
• London School of Economics (MSc in Development Studies)
• London School of Economics (Fellow in Development Studies)

His research focuses on:

• Political economy of green transitions in Africa and Asia-Pacific
• Late industrialisation and structural transformation
• Development studies theory and praxis
• Energy mining and labour dynamics

Recent publications explore:

• Geopolitics of permanent wars in Africa
• Decolonial approaches to African studies
• Renewable energy expansion in the Global South
• Lithium supply chain ethics

Scientific roles include:

• Working Group Coordinator, International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy
• Editorial Board Member, Review of African Political Economy
• Affiliated Member, Centre of Mining Research (Catholic University of Bukavu, DRC)