Burgess Langshaw Power

PhD in Global Governance    

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Burgess Langshaw Power

PhD in Global Governance

Burgess Langshaw Power is a PhD student in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School for International Affairs, in the environmental stream.

His doctoral research will focus on the governance of transformational or ‘black swan’ technologies. Specifically, he examines how some technologies are incompatible with traditional governance and regulation, and thus must be managed using special protocols. This includes historical case studies such as nuclear technologies and genetic modification. Based on these historical precedents, his work extrapolates to theoretical future examples including the governance of solar geoengineering (solar radiation modification) within Canadian and global contexts.

He is also the Environment Cluster Coordinator, a member of the Balsillie School’s Global Climate Action Committee, and founder of the Balsillie School Community Garden.

Prior to his PhD, Burgess was a Policy Analyst with Natural Resources Canada. There, he worked on the regulatory approval of energy infrastructure across Canada and next generation energy technologies. Burgess also held a United Nations Association of Canada Internship, studying climate change and the mining sector in Mongolia.

Awards

  • SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (2022-2025)
  • University of Waterloo President’s Graduate Scholarship
  • Balsillie Doctoral Fellowship (2020-2024)
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology (declined)
  • Natural Resource Canada’s Advancing Reconciliation Award – 2021
  • Natural Resource Canada’s Departmental Achievement Awards recipient of the Impact Award in Achieving Results – 2019
  • Postgraduate Student of the Year – Faculty of Business Management, University of Sussex (2017)
  • Chancellor’s International Scholarship – University of Sussex (2016)

Education

  • MSc with Distinction, Science and Technology Policy, Science Policy Research Unit – University of Sussex, 2016
  • BSc with Honours, Science, Technology and Society / Arts and Sciences Honours Academy, University of Calgary, 2014
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