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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
I am a 1+3 PhD student in the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) and in the Science, Society & Sustainability (3S) Research Group. My research explores UK climate change governance, specifically the role of the UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in shaping the wider knowledge and governance landscapes in which specific…
I have always had an interest in environmental issues, I’m told in fact that I used to make and put up anti-whaling posters in primary school. That interest has broadened over the years to include policy and social issues but the core has remained the same. What was probably mostly youthful exuberance has grown up,…
I am an environmental social scientist conducting interdisciplinary, critically-constructive research around societal engagement with sustainability. I have developed this interest through the investigation of grassroots sustainability innovations, environmental movements, socio-technical energy transitions, and through the exploration of diverse forms of energy democracy in the UK and beyond. Across these areas, my research and teaching engages…
I am a PhD student in the Science, Society & Sustainability (3S) Research Group. I’m interested in the role environmental sciences play in the relations between science and society. My PhD seeks to uncover a history of environmental science, using The School of Environmental Sciences at UEA as a case-study. Broadly, my research interests include;…
Lecturer in Ecological Economics. My research interests employ environmental economics thinking and tools often with social science methods to address sustainability concerns around water resources and ecosystem services management in times of change. 3S relevant research includes innovative collaboration with a filmmaker to explore place attachment around river spaces and participatory approaches to flood hazard…
Professor of Environment and Society and Chair of the 3S Research Group in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. I am a science and technology studies (STS) scholar and geographer concerned with the changing relations between science, innovation and society in contemporary democracies, particularly in environment and sustainability contexts and…
I am interested in the challenge of making everyday life and society more sustainable. Accordingly, my research focuses on how different types of sustainability innovation – from ‘smart’ home technologies to grassroots social innovations like community energy initiatives – operate in everyday settings and situations, and how attempts to govern everyday life impact on patterns…
I am an economic geographer who is interested in the relationships between sustainability, energy and economy. Empirically, my research has focused on fuel poverty, energy transitions, alternative currencies, the Transition Towns movement and alternative food initiatives. My PhD research (at the University of Liverpool) was an ethnographic study of how an ‘alternative milieu’ developed around the…
Senior Lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences. As an environmental social scientist, my research focuses the relationships between individual understandings of environmental issues – specifically climate change, its causes and consequences over different timescales- and behaviours. I am interested in opportunities and barriers to engagement with climate change, representation and communication of climate data,…
Lecturer in Human Geography. My research is concerned with how societies in different times and places make sense of weather and climate, and with how atmospheric science and technology intersect with politics and power. I recently completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship project called ‘Imperial weather: meteorology and the making of twentieth century colonialism’, which…
Lecturer in the Human Geography of the Environment. My research is concerned with institutionalised practices engaging citizens with environmental and science policy issues. I am currently a co-investigator on the UK Energy Research Centre funded project systemic participation and decision-making in UK energy transitions. I am also developing new projects around the concept of…
Reader in Sustainable Consumption, and leader of 3S’s Sustainable Consumption strand. I lead a programme of research on ‘grassroots innovations’ for sustainability. I am an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, linking sustainability policy agendas with ‘new economics’ theories and cutting-edge community-based practice. My main research interest is around grassroots innovations, which are community-led initiatives which challenge…
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