Prior to that she worked as Associate Professor in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton, gained her PhD in Social Policy at the Humboldt University Berlin (2005) and BA/MA in Sociology at the Free University Berlin (2001). Milena’s current research focusses on issues around wellbeing, inequality and practice change in relation to energy use and low carbon societies. She is involved with the EPSRC Programme Grant on “Liveable Cities” and has held several other ESRC/EPSRC grants before that. At Southampton, Milena was Postgraduate Research Director for Sociology and Social Policy, coordinated the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre pathway on environment, energy and resilience, and supervised 11 PhD students across the social and environmental sciences.