On the way home from Brussels on Eurostar, I picked up a copy of the Financial Times. The cover story was about how the number of millennials (born between 1980-2000) has overtaken the number of baby boomers in the US, marking a shift in consumer power as “millennials are now in the most important age […]
As from 1st July 2018, every country in Estonia has the option to implement free public transport for its residents all hours every day. However, a 2016 analysis of the Tallin scheme found that one year into the experiment, the scheme did not encourage people to leave their cars at home. Instead, the study found […]
SILCI team member, Charlie Wilson, was one of the authors in a new study published in Nature Energy which shows how dramatic transformations in the way we move around, heat and cool our homes, and buy and use devices and appliances in our cities can help raise living standards in the global South to meet […]
The SILCI team are pleased to welcome Renae Sze Ming Loh who will complete an internship between June and August. Renae is a Masters student in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University. Her research interests include technology and its social implications. Her project will focus on early adopters of low carbon innovations, drawing on large global social science data to answer some key questions. For example “to what extent do early adopters of low […]