Accelerating Social Transitions Research Projects
In the global north we are constantly mobile and constantly purchase goods. As households, we heat our homes and cook and make choices about what to buy. In our communities, we exchange ideas and signal our self-identities to ourselves and others with our consumer choices. ‘Transition’ describes a system-wide process unfolding through entwined social and technological change at multiple scales. By focusing on ‘social transitions’, we analyse our ways of life and our relationships with technologies and infrastructures. Read more…
The politics of low carbon innovation
Recent studies emphasise sustainable innovation processes developing within protective niches. Experimentation in these spaces accumulates experience and improvements, which carries technologies from demonstration and into commercial use. This collaborative project
Transforming the UK Energy System: Public Values, Attitudes and Acceptability
“London Tower Bridge” by d26b73 via Flickr is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Overview This project is funded by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and NERC as part of the Research Council
VERD: Value propositions for energy efficient renovation
Understanding Homeowners’ Renovation Decisions: The ‘VERD’ Project VERD is a research project at the University of East Anglia investigating homeowners’ decisions to renovate, with a particular emphasis on energy efficiency.
WISE PV: Whole system solar photo voltaic integration
The full title for this project is – Whole System Impacts and Socio-economics of wide scale PV integration (WISE PV). Solar PV has grown rapidly in the UK since the
