Emilka Skrzypek

Emilka is a social anthropologist with a background in sustainable development and interdisciplinary interest in corporate social responsibility. She holds an MA (Hons) in Sustainable Development, as well as an MRes and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews. She has over a decade of experience in conducting social science research extractive contexts, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland. Her research to date has largely focused on Papua New Guinea and engages communities, company and government representatives to explore broadly conceived resource relations and interdependencies. She is particularly interested in stakeholder engagement and social impacts at undeveloped complex orebodies. She is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of St Andrews' Centre for Energy Ethics.