Events – SILCI

“Widening transitions”, and participation, at the virtual NEST conference

Posted on 06/07/2020 Laurie KerrPosted in Events, Future mobility

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.

Discussing societies big challenges at the 2019 Norwich Science festival

Posted on 29/01/2020 Laurie KerrPosted in Events

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 […]

Making Net Zero Work with Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Posted on 06/11/2019 Charlie WilsonPosted in Events, Low-carbon innovations

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 […]

World Social Marketing Conference

Posted on 10/09/2019 Hazel PettiforPosted in Events, Low-carbon innovations

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 […]

SILCI goes to Utrecht, the Netherlands

Posted on 02/07/201902/08/2019 Laurie KerrPosted in Events

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 […]

Empowering women in energy

Posted on 02/07/2019 Emma CassarPosted in Events, Low-carbon innovations

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 […]

How can social innovation activate local networks for decarbonisation?

Posted on 07/06/2019 Hazel PettiforPosted in Events, Low-carbon innovations

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 […]

SILCI goes to Cambridge!

Posted on 08/05/2019 Laurie KerrPosted in Events, Future mobility

Laurie Kerr, a SILCI PhD Researcher, recently attended the CEEDA (Cambridge and EnvEast Doctoral Alliance) symposium at Cambridge University. She gave a plenary presentation about peer-to-peer mobility innovations, and how they can potentially reduce travel-related CO2 emissions. Peer-to-peer ride sharing (where individuals are matched and travel in a car with others making the same journey), and peer-to-peer car sharing (where […]

Introducing Mobility-as-a-Service at the 4th NEST Conference in Lisbon, Portugal

Posted on 08/05/2019 Emma CassarPosted in Events, Future mobility

Emma Cassar, a PhD Researcher, has recently attended the 4th Annual NEST Conference (#4thNEST) organised by the Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST). Emma presented her work in progress on the potential of Mobility-as-a-Service in Birmingham, UK. The adoption and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by the Millennial and post-Millennial generation is considered […]

Celebrating European Mobility Week in the European Green Capital for 2018

Posted on 21/09/201826/09/2018 Laurie KerrPosted in Events, Future mobility, Topics

The 16th – 22nd September 2018 marks the annual European Mobility Week. The Dutch city of Nijmegen, which is the 2018 European Green Capital, will hold a week of events promoting sustainable mobility. The week will culminate in a public ‘innovation festival’, presenting mobility innovations and exploring the future of zero-emission mobility. SILCI’s Laurie Kerr got to experience the opening festival. This took place on what is […]