Olena is a PhD candidate and an early career researcher at the University of Tartu (Estonia), Institute of Social Studies, with an interest in digital humanities, social practice change and political marginalization. Olena is also an analyst and a project-manager working with European projects in the areas of SSH integration, and is currently focusing on researching issues of populism, migration and socio-political marginalisation in carbon-intensive regions. Within Energy-SHIFTS she is supporting a workshop on Carbon intensive EU regions – How Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can contribute to the acceleration of a truly just transition (organised by E3G and co-hosted with Bankwatch and Jagiellonian University).