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Tadeusz Józef Rudek

Tadeusz Józef Rudek

position: PhD student/research assistant

E-mail: tadeusz.rudek@uj.edu.pl


Tadeusz Rudek is a PhD student at the Doctoral School in the Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a fellow at the STS Fellowship program at Harvard University.

He is also a PI of the Journey to the West? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the energy transition in China and Taiwan project funded by the National Science Center in Poland (PRELUDIUM 21). Tadeusz is a research assistant at the EU-funded Horizon2020 projects: Energy Shifts, Comets and VAX-TRUST. His project Journey to the West? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the energy transition in China and Taiwan, aims at understanding the comparative analysis of imaginaries influence on energy transition policies in both regions. He is a author of the publication and reports in the field of Energy-SSH field. Tadeusz was also a co-coordinator of the Early Stage Researchers programme in the Energy Shifts project. He is fluent in English (C2). Moreover, he speaks Chinese (B2), Spanish (B1) and Russian (B1). His research interests cover Science, Technology & Society (STS) studies, Sociology of energy as well as climate adaptation policies at the urban and national levels.


www: https://imagine-future.project.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/
Twitter: @tadeusz_rudek
Google Scholar: Tadeusz Rudek
Scopus: 57478612800
Research gate: Tadeusz Rudek
ORCID: 0000-0002-8498-614X

Scientific and research interests

  • technology and society
  • sociology of energy
  • climate adaptation policies
  • STS
  • uncertainties and risks
  • sociology of scientific knowledge

Publications

2023

  • Wierling, A., Schwanitz, V.J., Zeiss, J.P. [...] Rudek T.J. et al. A Europe-wide inventory of citizen-led energy action with data from 29 countries and over 10000 initiatives. Sci Data 10, 9 (2023). [PUBLICATION]

2022

  • Rudek, T.J., Capturing the invisible. Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy. The critical overview, Science and Public Policy, 2022; scab076, 2021. [PUBLICATION]
  • Rabiej-Sienicka, K., Rudek T.J., Wagner, A., Let it Flow, Our Energy or Bright Future: Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy transition in Poland, Energy Research & Social Science, 2022. [PUBLICATION]
  • Krupnik, S., Wagner, A., Koretskaya, O., Rudek, T.J. ,et al., Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe, Energy Research & Social Science, 2022. [PUBLICATION]
  • Schwanitz V.J., Rudek T.J., Hubert, W., Wierling A., The Development of Citizen-Installed Renewable Energy Capacities in Former Eastern Bloc Countries -The Case of Poland, Energies, 2022. [PUBLICATION]
  • Wagner A., Rudek T.J., Energia Wyobrażeń, In: Jasikowska K., Pałasz M., (eds.) Wyzwania dla demokracji w dobie zmian klimatycznych- perspektywa interdyscyplinarna, 2022, Wydawnictwo Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej. [PUBLICATION]

2021

  • von Wirth, T., Wagner, A., Rudek, T.J., Krupnik S., Koretskaya, O., Wade, R., Loorbach, D., and Subotički, I., 2021. RenewableEnergy: A Social Sciences and Humanities annotated bibliography. Cambridge: Energy-SHIFTS.
  • Bharucha, Z., Krupnik, S., Robison, R., Foulds, C., Bode, N. and Rudek, T.J., 2021. Horizon Scanning and Policy Fellowships to embed Social Sciences and Humanities within EU energy research and innovation policy: An Energy-SHIFTS evaluation. Cambridge: Energy-SHIFTS.
  • von Wirth, T., Loorbach, D., Wagner, A., Koretskaya,O., Wade, R., Krupnik, S., Rudek, T.J., et.al, 2020. 100 Social Sciences and Humanities priority research questions for renewable energy in Horizon Europe. Cambridge: Energy-SHIFTS.

Currently implemented projects

Completed projects

  • 2021: Study Visit at Harvard University, preparation of the PhD project. Cambridge, MA
  • 2019 - 2021: Energy SHIFTS (H2020), research assistant; https://energy-shifts.eu
  • 2020-2021: COMETS (H2020), research assistant; http://www.comets-project.eu
  • 2020: Inventory of CAIs in the energy sector in Poland, research assistant, Western Norway University, Bergen
  • 2016: Knowing China Fellowship, Beijing Foreign Studies University 北京外国语学院, Pekin

Other activities

  • 2020: UNA Europa PhD workshop Unlocking and Transiting. Strategies and Policies for Sustainable World, Berlin
  • 2013: Taiwanese Studies Workshop Masaryk University, Brno