Marta Conde is Marie Curie Fellow at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona and CSRM, University of Queensland. Her research looks at social reactions to the expansion of extractive industries. Using political ecology, ecological economics, political economy and environmental justice she analyses the drivers, strategies and discourses of resistance movements to mining. During the MC fellowship (GROUT) she will explore the conflicts and governance arrangements that are occurring with the expansion of mining frontiers to the periphery of inhabited towns and cities.

Her research has also analysed the interaction between science and activism and knowledge co-production processes in EJ struggles, as well as governance issues with seabed mining and hybrid urban governance. She has linked her research to the environmental justice movement and degrowth, exploring how these groups are contesting successfully the imperative of endless economic growth.