Last week, I passed my PhD viva at Manchester and I’ve just started a new role as Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University today! Please do let me know if you’re ever visiting Japan!

I am honoured to be this year's recipient of the Manchester Doctoral College Excellence Award for Best Outstanding Research Output in the Faculty of Humanities!

Excited to share that our paper is out in Sustainability Science! This research, conducted with @stefanb23.bsky.social and @saskapetrova.bsky.social, examines the role of agrivoltaics in shaping community-based energy governance and energy democracy in Japan Open access at: doi.org/10.1007/s116...

'Community-based energy governance and the political: Towards a post-foundational energy democracy'. A new paper led by @hayatokoga.bsky.social (w @saskapetrova.bsky.social), offering alternative understandings of #energycommunities & #energyjustice (#energysky, #geosky) doi.org/10.1177/2753...

Thrilled to see our new paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography! With @saskapetrova.bsky.social and @stefanb23.bsky.social, this paper examined the concept of community within the contexts of community-based energy governance. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍 'Community-based #energy governance & the #political: Towards a post-foundational energy democracy' by Hayato Koga, Saska Petrova & Stefan Bouzarovski journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @hayatokoga.bsky.social