Liz Hood

Liz Hood is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Business of Energy Transition Initiative. She holds a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from Boston College, a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Marketing Analytics from Bentley University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Brandeis University.

Her research engages with socio-cognitive perspectives of technology to understand how perceptions and applications of technology impact important outcomes, such as the impact of technologies on the environment. As an ethnographer and field researcher, she uses qualitative data (archival documents, interviews, participant-observation) to investigate an array of technologies including marine energy devices, snow guns for snowmaking at ski areas, funeral innovations, e-cigarettes, and police body cameras.