Making the green shift work for regions
Our project aims to develop a new understanding of how regional labour markets are adapting to the grand challenge of Green Shift. We will go beyond national and industry forecasts by recognising that responding to this challenge will be region specific processes of adaptation and change. Labour markets vary between places, operating and performing differently based on their industrial histories and employment and skills profiles. As such, our project seeks to better integrate localities and regions, labour markets and working lives as central elements within green shift, rather than merely as outcomes of this transition. We do this by exploring the regional skills ecosystem concept in Oil & Gas specialised regions. A region’s skills ecosystem examines how the often place-specific demands of industry and employers interact and evolve over time with supplies of workers, skills and intermediaries. As the green shift unfolds, the ways in which different regional skills ecosystems adapt and change will vary and have important implications for processes of regional competitiveness and labour market inclusion.
Our project provides a novel international comparative analysis of three O&G regions at the forefront of the energy transition within different national policy contexts of Norway and Scotland. We will combine industry-wide secondary data analysis with in-depth regional case studies of Rogaland, Trøndelag and Northeast Scotland, to develop a systematic understanding of how local and regional labour markets evolve and adapt with the transition to new low-carbon energy landscapes.
The research is designed with the ambition of informing policy, based on detailed in-depth research leading to the identification of the most effective policy measures for an inclusive and effective labour market transition. More broadly, we believe the project will address the relative neglect of labour and labour markets within social science research on sustainability transitions.
Project facts
Name
Making the green shift work for regions
Status
Active
Duration
01.04.24 - 31.03.28
