We invite you to join us for this symposium co-organised by 3S member Casper Laing Ebbensgaard as part of the Housing Future research project to share your experiences of housing and discuss the future of housing in Norwich on Thursday 14th March 2024, 12-5 pm, at Anteros Gallery (11-15 Fye Bridge Street, Norwich, NR3 1LJ)!…
We are delighted to invite contributions to a panel on ‘mapping participation’ at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 in London on 27th-30th August 2024. The panel is organised by 3S members Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett, Phedeas Stephanides and Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda. This session brings together work on mapping public participation and engagement that is emerging in geography,…
Universities are increasingly being challenged to show leadership in responding to and addressing climate change. Staff, students and the wider UEA community are already attempting to address some of these challenges on their own terms. However, universities have wider untapped potential to move beyond a siloed approach to decision-making and address the many social and…
We are delighted to invite contributions to our panel at the 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Amsterdam on 16-19 July. The panel is co-convened by 3S members Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett, Phedeas Stephanides and…
Prof Jason Chilvers (3S Chair; UKERC Co-Director and Observatory Lead) and Dr Phedeas Stephanides (Senior Researcher) have published a new briefing reporting on the findings of a collaborative experiment with partners from the Climate Citizens Project at Lancaster University, the Climate Change Committee, and Shared Future CIC on public engagement with home energy decarbonisation. This experiment in evaluating a citizens’ panel on…
I am an ARIES-associated PhD researcher, funded by the Science Faculty at the University of East Anglia. My PhD research is looking at new nature markets within a UK agricultural context. In this work, I hope to use a mixture of qualitative interviews, and GIS techniques to explore possible environmental, social and economic aspects of…
I am a SeNSS ESRC funded Postgraduate Researcher and Associate Tutor at the University of East Anglia. I am also a member of the Science Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group, and associated with the UKERC Public Engagement Observatory. My research is looking into the interconnected nature of technological future-making and appraisal, science fiction, and…
How do we engage with the colonial present? This question is central to Planetary Portals Collective, and on the 8 December they will present two related bodies of recent work: the launch of the newly published book, Red Earth, by Michael Salu and a performance-reading of Diamond Power by the Collective (Michael Salu, Kathryn Yusoff,…
Teresa Guadalupe De Leon Escobedo is a PhD researcher in Human Geography at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She is doing a short-term research visit with 3S member Martin Mahony. Her research focuses on the production of Regional Climate Scenarios for Mexico and the construction of anticipatory adaptation policies. Through interviews with climate scientists in…
Through a series of collaborative experiments with partners, the UK Energy Research Centre’s (UKERC) Public Engagement Observatory, based in the 3S Research Group, is actively exploring how new approaches to mapping diverse forms of public engagement across systems can make a difference in practice to energy and climate-related decisions, innovations and new forms of participation.…
In this blog, originally published on Medium, 3S member Nickhil Sharma shares his insights from an exploratory workshop on embedding intersectionality in policy research that he organised, together with Rachel Mills, during his research secondment with the energy policy team at Citizens Advice.
The UKERC Public Engagement Observatory, based in the 3S Research Group, maps the many different ways that people are engaging with energy, climate change and net zero on an ongoing basis. In this webinar, taking place on Monday 11th September 2023, 2-3pm, the Observatory team will present the findings of a major new analysis of…
3S researchers Jason Chilvers, Phedeas Stephanides, Helen Pallett, and Tom Hargreaves have just published a new UKERC Public Engagement Observatory briefing note presenting the findings of a major new analysis of public engagement with energy, climate change, and net zero occurring in the UK between 2015-2022. The study used the comparative case analysis method developed by the…
3S member Martin Mahony has contributed to an exhibition called ‘Sensing Volcanoes’ which will feature at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Festival. The interactive exhibition brings together findings from the Curating Crises project with cutting-edge scientific research on recent volcanic eruptions to tell the story of how techniques of sensing and detecting volcanic processes…
3S researcher Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda was recently awarded a grant from the CHASE Climate Justice network to put on a series of workshops exploring how the university curriculum might be reformed in response to the multiple challenges associated with biodiversity and climate crises. Elliot is part of a team including other 3S members Noel Longhurst and…
3S researchers Nickhil Sharma, Tom Hargreaves and Helen Pallett have a new Open Access article published in the journal Buildings and Cities on ‘Social justice implications of smart urban technologies: an intersectional approach’. The article demonstrates how, despite claims that ‘smart urban technologies’ will solve multiple urban crises, narratives around ‘smart urbanism’ (SU) often end up reinforcing and deepening existing inequalities by prioritizing market interests and data monetization over the rights and interests of marginalised groups. The article calls for a comprehensive analysis of social justice concerns in SU and develops a novel intersectional approach for doing so. It uses this approach to map and analyse 70 cases of opposition, alternatives, and glitches with smart urban technologies from around the world.
I am a CDCC programme PhD student at the School of Environmental Sciences, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. I am part of the Science, Society, and Sustainability (3S) Research Group and the Tyndall Centre. My research explores how politicians and the public shape each other’s climate change attitudes and behaviours, what role the media plays…
Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda has successfully defended his PhD entitled “Scientising the ‘environment’: The School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, 1967-1990”. His research looks at the history of the School of Environmental Sciences (ENV) at UEA to explore how the ‘environment’ became an object of knowledge to be made known through scientific interdisciplinarity. Through four…
Dr Tom Hargreaves is involved in an exciting new research project funded by the Ofwat Innovation Fund. Led by Anglian Water, the Enabling Water Smart Communities Project is a 4-year, £5.5m project that will involve novel collaborations between water companies, housing developers, local authorities, universities and more. The aim of the project is to develop…
3S member Casper Laing Ebbensgaard joins Kathryn Yusoff, Kerry Holden, and Michael Salu on a lecture-performance moderated by Helen Pritchard on Thursday 2nd February, 5pm GMT. The lecture-performance explores how ‘diabolical architectures’ of colonial materialism hold open Africa as a continent for extraction. Based on research in the Rhodes archives, this collaborative work responds to…
The Museum of the Anthropocene is an annual pop-up exhibition created by students on Dr Martin Mahony’s 3rd year module ‘Human Geography in the Anthropocene’. Students chose a range of objects whose stories can help us make sense of the historical, political and cultural forces that have led us into the proposed new ‘age of humans’: from beef to Barbie, plastic bags to punk rock, cricket…
3S researchers have published a briefing note introducing the Public Engagement Observatory which is housed in 3S as part of the UK Energy Research Centre. It accompanied the launch of the Observatory’s new dedicated website and open access database. The Public Engagement Observatory The UKERC Public Engagement Observatory maps the many different ways that people are engaging with…
I am an ARIES-associated PhD researcher in the Science, Society, and Sustainability (3S) Research Group, funded by the Science Faculty at the University of East Anglia. My current research as part of the UK Energy Research Centre’s Public Engagement Observatory expands upon techniques for mapping participation through digital methods in energy, climate change and net…
Harriet Dudley, a third year PhD researcher at the University of East Anglia reflects on her recent secondment with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology: “I study the conditions under which policymakers will (not) use expert climate policy advice to shape policy. I recently returned from a Research Fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of…
I am a SeNSS DTP programme PhD researcher in Norwich Business School and the Science, Society & Sustainability (3S) Research Group. My research explores the role of alternative and diverse economies in transitions to low-consumption social systems, using the Norwich Sharing City project as a case study. I am particularly interested in the more radical…
I am an ARIES-associated PhD student in the Science, Society, and Sustainability (3S) Research Group. My current research interests lie in understanding how colonial rule has shaped environmental science practices and how these might be addressed through a decolonial lens to ensure the safeguarding of the environment, whilst also dismantling the social inequalities, often steeped…
Join us on Tuesday 5th July 2022, from 2pm to 3pm, on a webinar marking the launch of the new dedicated website and open access database of UKERC’s Public Engagement Observatory that is based in the 3S Research Group.
3S member Martin Mahony joins Professor Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex) and Professor Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge) on a special panel discussion on climate change and colonialism. The panel discussion is organised by the Cambridge HPS Anthropocene (Climate Histories) reading/seminar group and will take place on Thursday 26th May at 2pm BST. The hybrid…
3S member Martin Mahony has been appointed as a founding member of the Norwich Climate Commission. The Commission is an independent advisory body set up to bring actors from the public, private and third sectors together to support, guide and track the impact of ambitious climate change and sustainability actions across Norwich. It is currently…
3S member Martin Mahony is a co-investigator on a new NERC/AHRC project called ‘Curating Crises: the past as a key to improving the stewardship of hazard knowledges for the future’
3S members Helen Pallett and Martin Mahony have put out a call for papers for the forthcoming RGS-IBG conference in Newcastle 30th August-2nd September. These sessions aim to establish and explore an incipient research agenda around new and critical geographies of innovation, bringing together diverse geographical research and practice which challenges conventional narratives of and…
3S member Martin Mahony will participate in a free online seminar organised by the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University on Thursday 10th February 2021 3-5PM (GMT+1).
Vinícius is a PhD student at the University of East Anglia and an early-stage researcher at the GECKO Project (Horizon 2020 MSCA-ITN). He is interested in collaborative and foresight design processes dedicated to technological democratization and autonomy. Coming from a bachelor’s in architectural design and urban planning (2016) and a master’s in Artificial Intelligence applied…
Nickhil is a 29-year-old Energy Engineer from Bangalore, India. He is currently a PhD student at UEA, working on an EU-funded project on Smart Home Technologies. His research areas include sustainability transitions, stakeholder management, and social sustainability. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Melton Foundation where he develops skill-based workshops for youth engagement around…
I am a PhD researcher in the Centre for Social and Economic Research for the Global Environment (CSERGE) and the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) research group. As an environmental scientist, I have developed a particular interest in nature-based solutions (NBS) and their application to address societal challenges in an increasingly warming world. So far,…
New 3S PhD researcher Cat Acheson shares her perspective on the role and policing of publics at COP26. COP26 has been widely portrayed as a make-or-break moment for global efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change. During the first week of the conference, I joined protests on the ground in Glasgow, with a diverse coalition of…
There are 4 competition funded PhD projects advertised at UEA with researchers from the 3S group. MAPPING PARTICIPATION IN ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NET ZERO will be supervised by Dr Helen Pallett and Professor Jason Chilvers, and is part of the UEA Science Faculty funding competition. To date, approaches to involving the public in decisions…
3S members Laurie Waller and Jason Chilvers have a new paper in Science, Technology and Human Values analysing controversy over proposals for the large-scale removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CDR), in collaboration with Tyndall Centre colleague Tim Rayner. The study combines a digital method (web-querying) with document analysis to map debates about two CDR approaches:…
I am a PhD researcher in the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. My research explores sustainability-focused innovations in societal systems and in social practices, and how these two approaches can be linked up effectively. Working in partnership with Norfolk County Council, my project aims to…
3S member Casper Laing Ebbensgaard has recently published two short chapters in the book Interior Realms. The first of these chapters, entitled ‘Collective Matter, Vertical Life’, explores the home as a site of cultural production in the vertical night. Through a vignette that follows the routines of two residents in a high-rise in central, east…
3S member Martin Mahony has two new articles out on the nature and influence of global environmental assessments.
The first, co-authored with Maud Borie (KCL), Noam Obermeister and Mike Hulme (Cambridge University), compares the knowledge-making practices of the IPCC and IPBES, the global bodies responsible for assessing science around climate change and biodiversity loss respectively.
The second article, published with a number of fellow participants in a 2019 workshop at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), argues that in order to understand the effectiveness of GEAs, we need to go beyond just tracking the translation of their findings into policy.
Midnight Sun examines everyday spaces and technologies of night in the vertical city. By displaying bespoke photography, digital media, and sculptural artworks in close dialogue with research materials drawn from everyday life in the vertical city, the exhibition questions how we might reckon with the entangled hi/stories of life in the nocturnal city. The exhibition…
Dr Irene Lorenzoni (3S Research Group, UEA) 3S Seminar, 19th May 2021, 16:00-17:00 BST on MS Teams (please email Mandy Harmer <Amanda.Hamer@uea.ac.uk> if you would like to attend, an invite will be sent before the seminar). The standard advice to politicians confronting long-term challenges such as decarbonisation is to adopt commitment devices such as binding policies. Yet…
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh (CAST & University of Bath) 3S Seminar, 21th April 2021, 16:00-17:00 BST on MS Teams (please email Mandy Harmer <Amanda.Hamer@uea.ac.uk> if you would like to attend, an invite will be sent before the seminar). In this talk, I will present recent findings from public deliberation (e.g., Climate Assembly UK) and opinion surveys to…
3S members Helen Pallett and Jason Chilvers are among the authors of a new briefing note on public engagement with algorithms in public services in the UK. This briefing note is one of the outputs of the ‘Just Public Algorithms‘ Project which was funded by the Not Equal Network+ (EPSRC). The briefing note summarises the…
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