Dr Margherita Scazza

Personal statement

Margherita joined the School of Sciences in July 2024. Her research combines approaches from political ecology, environmental justice and geographies of social movements. She has extensive experience working with Indigenous communities and organisations in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Her work examines the territorial dimensions of Indigenous struggles for autonomy and post-extractive futures and the politics of collaborations between environmentalists and Indigenous activists. 

Margherita is also a member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Freiburg University. 

Margherita has taught human geography at the University of Edinburgh and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Academic qualifications

• PhD, Human Geography,  University of Edinburgh (2023)
• MSc, Sustainable Development, Utrecht University (2015)
• BA, Political Science and International Relations, University of Milan (2012)

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Teaching specialisms

I teach on several modules across the BSc Geography and BSc Global Development and Sustainability including:

• Cities and Environment
• Sustainability in Life and Work
• Geographical Research Methods
• Global Development and Environment.

Interest areas

Staff and students can contact me about:

• political ecology and resource extraction
• social movements and the environment
• decoloniality.