Overview

I am a postgraduate researcher funded by the SWDTP on their ‘Sustainable Futures’ pathway. My research explores the diverse and complex ways in which citizens engage with energy systems, specifically facilitating deliberative spaces for just net zero transitions.

Qualifications

MSc Environmental Science – University of East Anglia (2021)
BA English and Related Literature – University of York (2017)

Career

Prior to joining University of Exeter, I worked in public engagement roles within the conservation and community energy sectors. This included coordinating and leading workshops, talks, and events, managing digital and print communications and facilitating strategic workshops with community energy groups.  

Links

• SWDTP

Research group links

• Environment and Sustainability

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Research

Research interests

My PhD research explores the diverse ways in which publics engage with energy, with a view to delivering citizen-led research that contributes to the development of just energy transitions. I am interested in how citizens are implicated within energy systems, how they conceptualise these engagements and how these conceptualisations may change over time.

The aim is to use this knowledge to consider how diverse engagements implicate regional, and broader, energy transition decision making. Utilising mixed-method, deliberative methodologies (deliberative mapping and longitudinal profiles) I hope to generate new ways of thinking about public engagement and appraisal of energy futures.

My research supervisors are Prof. Cat Butler, Dr.Christina Demski and Dr. Iain Soutar

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