Earlier in the year, SILCI PhD student Laurie Kerr participated in a 2-day workshop about designing board games to communicate research, and came away having made a prototype for a diffusion of innovations board game! As part of the annual Pint of Science Festival in September, Laurie participated in a series of videos produced by board games […]
During the summer, SILCI PhD student Laurie Kerr participated in the two-week Bergen Summer Research School course “Cities in climate and energy transformations”. This course explored the different roles cities and urban regions around the world can play in climate and energy transformations through a range of lectures, workshops, and discussions. Laurie’s research is looking […]
Post written by Emilie Vrain Charlie Wilson and Emilie Vrain from the SILCI team recently presented at the virtual Sunbelt Conference hosted by the International Network for Social Network Analysis. The conference brought together researchers from a wide range of fields all studying the patterns of social interactions and structure. The SILCI team is interested in such social factors as they potentially play an important role for encouraging the adoption […]
Laurie Kerr, a SILCI PhD researcher, recently presented at the virtual “NEST” conference (Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions). The theme of this year’s conference was “widening transitions”, and saw over 70 PhD and early-career researchers participate online. Laurie presented some of her survey findings exploring the theme of “trust” in peer-to-peer mobility innovations. Her slides can be found here.
SILCI member Laurie Kerr recently sat on a panel of early career researchers at the “Science, Society and our Planet” event, which took place in Norwich Science Festival 2019. The event encouraged discussion between the public and the panel members about some of the big problems facing society. Some of the big questions discussed included […]
Image Attribution: Bloomberg New Energy Finance Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) is the leading market intelligence and advisory service for the energy industry. Held on Oct 19-20th in the glitz of a Hyde Park hotel, the summit agenda included keynote talks from Claire Perry (former Minister for Climate Change) and Kwasi Kwarteng (current Minister of State in BEIS), as well as a host of […]
Hazel Pettifor, Senior Researcher within the SILCI team presented her work on low carbon innovation attributes in a poster session at the World Social Marketing Conference in Edinburgh 5th/6th June 2019. A link to the poster can be found here. The conference brought together world renowned social marketing academics and practitioners including many working within […]
Laurie Kerr, a SILCI PhD researcher, recently participated the 6th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The 3 day event brought together over 100 attendees from academia, local government, and businesses. During the series of thematic parallel sessions, participants shared and discussed their insights into different themes of sharing economy, including the roles […]
Written by Emilie Vrain The UK Energy Research Centre funded an initiative which provided an opportunity for 30 women working in the broad field of decarbonisation of energy, from different regions, nationalities, disciplines, and varying career stages, to collaborate in small groups and prepare a proposal for seed funding during a two-day residential writing retreat […]
This was the topic of a workshop attended by Hazel Pettifor in March 2019, hosted by the DEEDS project. The workshop brought together a range of experts from both business and research, tasked with identifying knowledge gaps and R&I priorities for the coming 5-10 years. Discussions throughout the day highlighted many parallels with the SILCI […]