Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith is an Affiliate Researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) in the Department of Geography, previously serving as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024) and a postdoctoral researcher at Masaryk University (2018-2022). He holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

His educational background includes:

• PhD, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Smith's research centers on community-based economic practices for post-growth and post-capitalist futures, investigating insurgent industrial cultures and alternative production networks amid deglobalization. His RESHORE project analyzes reshoring pathways in European manufacturing through participatory approaches, bridging ecological economics, human geography, and social transformation studies.

His recent publications reveal consistent engagement with degrowth theory, diverse economies, and community wellbeing across ecological economics and human geography journals, emphasizing unintended consequences of transformation and dialogues between practice theory and economic alternatives.

His key scientific recognition includes:

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

Smith has not listed doctoral advisees. His research is primarily supported by the RESHORE project grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, focusing on participatory reshoring methodologies and community economies.

He actively collaborates through the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) and conducts his RESHORE project within LMU's Department of Geography research ecosystem.