Irene Sotiropoulou is a heterodox economist based at the University of Hull, at the Energy and Environment Institute. She specialises in ecological, feminist, solidarity and non-capitalist economics, heterodox theories and practices about money and finance, non-monetary economics and sharing modes. For analysing everyday and folk culture with reference to grassroots economic knowledge, she has been awarded, along with Dr Ferda Dönmez-Atbaşı (Ankara University), a Newton Mobility Grant by the British Academy. She is a Fellow of the GEM-IWG/GEM-Europe and World Social Science Fellowship programs, and a Fellow of the Monetary Research Center (UNWE) at Sofia.
At the Energy and Environment Institute, she works for the THYME project and her research is focusing on the existing bioeconomy in East Yorkshire with a special emphasis on farmers’ markets.
