Dr Franziska Paul
- Lecturer in Political Economy (Management)
email:
Franziska.Paul@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 316, Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153Biography
Dr Franziska Paul is Lecturer in Political Economy. Franziska holds a PhD in Geography along with an MRes in Human Geography, both from the University of Glasgow, and an MA (Hons) in Geography-Sociology from the University of Aberdeen. Franziska’s research explores issues of ownership and transformation (social, economic, and ecological), with a specific interest in processes of de-privatisation and democratisation.
After completing her PhD on trade union movement building towards a new, radical labour environmentalism focussed on energy democracy, Franziska worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded Global Remunicipalisation project. Franziska’s postdoctoral work investigated the public ownership, de-privatisation, and democratisation of key services and infrastructures, including energy, waste, local government, transport, and banking in the US and Germany.
Franziska is involved with the Public Futures database, a collaborative, knowledge exchange initiative and the first comprehensive collection of de-privatisation cases in the world. She is also an Associate on the Public Banking Project, led by Professor Thomas Marois at McMaster University, Canada, which aims to advance pro-public alternatives to finance for green and just transitions.
At College level, Franziska is on the leadership team of the Political Economy Futures Forum (PEFF).
Research interests
Franziska is a member of the School's Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster and on the leadership team of the college-wide Political Economy Futures Forum (PEFF) Interdisciplinary Research Theme.
Areas of expertise:
- Critical political economy
- Public and collective ownership
- Economic democracy
- Local and regional wealth building
- Trade union environmentalism
Grants
- New Interdisciplinary Research Theme, College of Social Sciences (£30,000): “Political Economy Futures Forum” (PEFF), Co-Lead/ IRT Leadership Team, 2024-2027
- International Partnership Development Fund (£4,710): “Establishing a Transnational Research Network on Public Banking”, PI, 2023-2024
- Norges Forskningsråd/ Research Council of Norway (£46,000 for Glasgow team; full award: £883,000): “Phasing in and phasing out: Reworking labour and energy transitions in the North Sea” (PHASE). Co-I (/PI Glasgow team). Project Lead: Dr Camilla Houeland at Fafo, Norway, 2024-2028
- Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Flexible Fund (£12,600): “Building a Global Database on Remunicipalisation”, Co-I with Prof Andrew Cumbers, 2020-2021
Supervision
Franziska is interested in supervising doctoral research that relates to alternative economic approaches as well as research into contemporary labour issues. Specific areas of interest include:
- local or community wealth building
- cooperative, public and/or collective ownership
- the social economy
- questions of wealth
- trade union environmentalism
- just transition
- and decent work.
Teaching
Current teaching:
- Management Issues and Controversies (MGT5264, PGT)
- Economic Crisis and Depressions (MGT4063, UG Hons)
- Entrepreneurship (MGT2014, UG)
Franziska also supervises dissertations at UG Hons (MGT4002P) and PGT level (BUS5045P/ BUS5046P).
Additional information
Knowledge exchange and public speaking engagements:
2024
- Guest on ‘The Common Weal Policy Podcast’ hosted by Common Weal Scotland: “The People’s Bank: Dr Franziska Paul on Public-Owned Banking”
- Workshop organiser: “Public banks, sustainable finance, and just transition: Scotland and the world”, University of Glasgow, UK.
- Guest lecturer, Department of Political Science, McMaster University: “Public ownership for sustainable futures: Insights from de-privatisations in Germany and the US”, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2023
- Invited seminar speaker, RECOURSE seminar series, University of Gdansk: "The political economy of remunicipalisation: Public ownership and the post-neoliberal turn?.Gdansk, Poland.
- Guest on ‘Co-Water Voice’ podcast hosted by Dr Prathiwi Putri (University of Kassel): “Franziska Paul on the German trajectory of (neoliberal) governance, the locus of ‘local state’ and community movements”.
- Invited speaker on a public lecture series jointly hosted by the University of Vienna and the Chamber of Labour and Employees Vienna: “Wem gehört…? Die Rückkehr der Eigentumsfrage aus globaler Perspektive” (Who owns…? The return of the ownership question from a global perspective). Vienna, Austria.
2022
- Co-organiser of the “Public Futures – Global Remunicipalisation/Deprivatisation Database Strategic Workshop”, co-hosted with global union federation for public sector workers, Public Services International. Ferney-Voltaire, France.
- Invited speaker at the Shifting Narratives conference hosted by University College London and University of Greenwich: “Nation Building and Local Government in Germany”.
2021
- Webinar co-host for the launch of the Public Futures database: “Mapping Remunicipalisation: Global Report and Database Launch”
