Dr Thomas Raymen

Mid-Career Fellow 2025-26

Dirty Green Money: ESG Fraud, Greenwashing and Compliance in the Drive for Net Zero

Just how environmentally friendly are green investments anyway? Thomas Raymen’s research sets out to understand the complex issue of “greenwashing”. The rise of this form of financial activity has been accompanied with concerns that “the environmental credentials of particular investment opportunities” are being intentionally misrepresented. Thomas will investigate the regulation of this trillion-dollar industry, closely linked to the goal of Net Zero carbon emissions, which is considered so important in the fight against climate change.

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Mid-Career Fellowships Award Announcement

The latest round of Mid-Career Fellowships will provide funding for six academics allowing them time away from teaching to focus on their research.

Areas of interest

Criminology Consumer Capitalism Commodified Leisure Violence Gambling Consumerism Social Media Tourism Psychoanalysis Political Philosophy Cultural Geography Urban Studies

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Biography

Thomas Raymen is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University Newcastle.

Thomas is an ultra-realist criminologist and co-founder of the deviant leisure research network. To-date, his research has focused upon the social harms that emerge at the intersection of commodified leisure and consumer capitalism, publishing on issues around violence, gambling, consumerism, social media, tourism and environmental harm, parkour and freerunning, urban space and crime control. His research interests span the fields of criminology, leisure studies, psychoanalysis, moral and political philosophy, cultural geography and urban studies. He is currently dedicated to developing a theory of social harm rooted in a post-liberal ethics.

Biographical details correct as of 18.09.24