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Dr. Martin Sokol

Associate Professor (Geography)
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Dr. Martin Sokol

Associate Professor (Geography)
MUSEUM BUILDING

 sokolm@tcd.ie

 3531896 2355


Martin Sokol is Associate Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin and the Director of the Finance, Economy, Society (FES) Research Group. Martin is a founding member of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) and served as its Secretary. Martin's current research focuses on geographies of finance, financialisation, central banks and climate justice. Martin has an undergraduate degree from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, Slovakia and a Masters degree from the University of Grenoble, France. He received his doctorate from Newcastle University, UK, undertaking his PhD in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS). Martin was involved in several major research projects, while holding research and teaching posts at University College Dublin (UCD), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University College London (UCL), among others. He joined Trinity College Dublin in 2013. Martin was a Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant on new geographies of financialisation - GEOFIN - https://geofinresearch.eu
  ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY
Project Title
 GEOFIN
From
2016
To
2022
Summary
Western Banks in Eastern Europe: New Geographies of Financialisation Web: https://geofinresearch.eu (ERC Grant Agreement No. 683197)
Funding Agency
ERC
Programme
ERC Consolidator Grant
Project Title
 Searching for sustainable finance: geographies of financialization and debt in post-socialist East Central Europe (GEOFIN)
From
19/12/2014
To
20/11/2015
Summary
Aim : The key aim of the project is to develop a new, geographically-informed, theoretical framework for understanding socio-economic change in post-socialist East-Central Europe in the context of financialisation. Objective: To achieve the above aim, the overarching objective is to fuse two distinctive fields of geographical inquiry: the study of geographies of finance and financialization on the one hand, and geographical studies of post-socialist transformations on the other. These two fields of geographical study have contributed a lot to our understanding of two fundamental processes that have reshaped Europe and the world: (1) financialization (i.e. the process of growing role of finance in the economy and society) in the West, and (2) the transformation of economies and societies following the collapse of communism (state-socialism) in the East. However, to date, these two processes have been largely studied in isolation from each other, in geography and other social sciences alike. The key hypothesis of this project is that these two processes are interrelated in a number of ways and that they are mutually constitutive. The project therefore postulates that it is impossible to fully understand socio-economic change in post-socialist Europe without taking into account the implications of financialization; and, likewise, that it is impossible to fully understand the process of financialization without considering the implications stemming from the collapse of state-socialism. It is therefore expected that the project will have impact on both these fields of inquiry. Indeed, while building a new framework for understanding the post-socialist change is a prime concern, it is expected that the project will also feed into the debates on financialization. In doing so, it will contribute to the search of sustainable financial futures in Europe.
Funding Agency
Enterprise Ireland
Programme
H2020 - Proposal Preparation Support
Project Type
Preparation Support for European Research Council Awards
Person Months
9
Project Title
 The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Financial Geographies (FinGeo)
From
2015
To
2018
Summary
This project will allow FinGeo Network to organise the first ever global seminar series in financial geography.
Funding Agency
Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Programme
RSA Network Grant
Project Type
global seminar series

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Medium
Slovak Fluent Fluent Fluent
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Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)
Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG)
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Geographical Society of Ireland (GSI)
Research network on geographies of finance and post-socialist transformations
Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo)
Climate Social Science Network (CSSN)
All Island Climate and Biodiversity Research Network (AICBRN)
Bobek, Alicja, Mikuš, Marek, Sokol, Martin, Making sense of the financialization of households: state of the art and beyond, Socio-Economic Review, 21, (4), 2023, p2233-2258 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Stephens, Jennie C., Sokol, Martin, Financial innovation for climate justice: central banks and transformative `creative disruption'., Climate and Development, 2023, p1-12 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Sokol, M., Financialisation, central banks and 'new' state capitalism: The case of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England., Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space., 2022, Notes: [DOI 10.1177/0308518X221133114], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Sokol, M. and Pataccini, L. , Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 15, (1), 2021, p75 - 92, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsab033], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Martin Sokol, Leonardo Pataccini, Winners And Losers In Coronavirus Times: Financialisation, Financial Chains and Emerging Economic Geographies of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 111, (3), 2020, p401 - 415, Notes: [DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12433], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Lai, K.P.Y., Pan, F., Sokol, M., Wójcik, D., New financial geographies of Asia, Regional Studies, 54, (2), 2020, p143 - 148, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Martin Sokol, Financialisation, financial chains and uneven geographical development: Towards a research agenda, Research in International Business and Finance, 39, (1), 2017, p678 - 685, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sokol, M. and Vigne, S., DATABASE : DEBT IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE, 1, Trinity College Dublin, 2015, Dataset, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  Handle
Sokol, M.(ed.), Where evolutionary-institutional theory of regional economic development meets the post-socialist reality of Central and Eastern Europe: Building Silicon Valleys in Slovakia, In: Nijkamp, P., Kourtit, K., Bucek, M. and O. Hudec (Eds.) 5th Central European Conference in Regional Science Conference Proceedings, Kosice, Slovakia, 2015, Technical University of Kosice, 2015, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED  URL
Sokol, M.(ed.), Financialisation, financial chains and uneven geographical development in Europe: Towards a research agenda., 13th INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2015, INFINITI, 2015, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Sokol, M. and Stephens, J.C., Central Banks Should Be Fighting the Climate Crisis - Here's Why, The Conversation, (January 4), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Stephens, J. C. and Sokol, M., Financial Innovation for Sustainability Transformation, Climate Justice, & Fossil Fuel Phaseout: A Critical Role for Monetary Policy & Central Banks., Presented at the 14th annual International Sustainability Transitions (IST) conference 2023 "Responsibility and reflexivity in transitions"., Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Stephens, J. C. and Sokol, M., Financial innovations for sustainable economies and transformative social justice., Presented at the joint 5th SCORAI ((Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) and 21st ERSCP (The European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production) Conference "Transforming consumption-production systems toward just and sustainable futures", Session: A01: Beyond Growth: Structural Changes for Sustainable Consumption and Production., Wageningen, Netherlands (and online), 5-8 July 2023., 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Sokol, M. and Stephens J.C., Financial Innovation for Just Transitions, Climate Justice, & Fossil Fuel Phaseout: A Critical Role for Monetary Policy & Central Banks., Presented at Conference of Irish Geographers (CIG) 2023, Session 'Just Transitions to/for Sustainability', Wexford, Ireland, 16-19 May., 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Sokol, M. and Stephens, J.C., Monetary Policy, Climate Crisis & Inequality: A Climate Justice Approach., Paper for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Session: Geographies of Monetary Policy I: Crisis, Inequality and Financial Power., Denver, USA, and online, 23-27 March 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Pataccini, L. and Sokol, M., Green monetary and financial policies: missing geographies?, Paper for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Session: Geographies of Monetary Policy I: Crisis, Inequality and Financial Power., Denver, USA, and online, 23-27 March 2023., 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Stephens, J.C. and Sokol, M., Why the Fed should treat climate change's $150B economic toll like other national crises it's helped fight, The Conversation, (November 29), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sokol, M., Financial chains in financialized economies: the role of central banks, Poster presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), New York, USA (virtual), 25 February-1 March, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Sokol, M., The (post-)pandemic city: A vicious circle scenario., Paper for the 52nd Annual Conference of Irish Geographers (CIG), Themed session: Sustainable City Futures: COVID & Beyond., Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 May, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Sokol, M., Fernandez, R. and Pataccini, L. , Financialisation, post-pandemic central banking and regional and urban recovery: A turning point for monetary policy? , Regional Studies Association Global E-Festival - Regions in Recovery: Building Sustainable Futures. Special session 34: FinGeo - Financial Geographies of Regional and Urban Recovery, online, 2-18 June, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Champions of EU Research 2017
Economic geography; Geographies of finance; Central banks; Climate justice.