Staff
Miss Emily Judson
Doctoral Researcher
SERSF
Science and Engineering Research Support Facility (SERSF):, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
Office hours: By appointment
Overview
Emily joined the University of Exeter in September 2018 as an EPSRC funded PhD student. Her research aims to identify priority areas where digital energy governance could be improved to facilitate energy system decarbonisation, while also supporting a socio-economically just transition to Net Zero.
Qualifications
BA Hons, Politics, Soas, University of London
Career
Prior to joining the University of Exeter Emily worked in international higher education and research policy, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa, at Universities UK International. She also has experience in third sector governance, international student support, and freelance consultancy roles.
Research group links
Research
Research interests
Principle research interests:
- Governance of energy data and digital technologies to support Net Zero
- Energy and digital governance institutions
- Digitalisation in the just transition
- The digital energy commercial landscape and changing business models
- The relationship between energy democracy and digital energy technologies
Peer-reviewed publications:
van Veelen, B. et al. (2021) 'Intervention: Democratising infrastructure'. Political Geography, 87, [102378]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102378
Judson. E. et. al. (2020) 'The centre cannot (always) hold: Examining pathways towards energy system de-centralisation', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.109499
Other papers:
Robison, R. et al. (2020) '100 social sciences and humanities priority research questions for smart consumption in Horizon Europe'. Accessible via: https://energy-shifts.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/D2.3_WG2_smart-consumption.pdf
Judson, E., Soutar, I. and Mitchell, C. (2020) 'Governance Challenges Emerging from Energy Digitalisation', EPG Discussion Paper: EPG2002. Accessible via: https://geography.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/schoolofgeography/images/researchgroups/epg/Digital_Energy_Governance_Challenges_-_Discussion_Paper_-_FINAL.pdf
Research projects
PhD Overview:
In response to decarbonisation targets and technological change, energy systems are shifting from top-down linear systems to ones that are more distributed, multi-directional, and data-driven. Emerging technologies are being deployed across these new systems for diverse purposes – for example storage management, peer to peer trading, or distribution automation. This project will examine the implications of increased use of data and digital technologies in energy and the governance issues emerging from this change. The project uses mixed qualitative methods.
Supervision: Dr Iain Soutar, Prof Catherine Mitchell, Dr Rosie Robison
Research networks
Emily is a member of the Exeter Energy Network and the Environmental Intelligence Network (part of the University of Exeter Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence).
She is also an Early Stage Researcher on the Energy-SHIFTS project, supporting the SMART Consumption working group. The Energy-SHIFTS project will contribute to a European Energy Union that places societal needs centrally, by further developing Europe's leadership in using and applying energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities. https://energy-shifts.eu/meet-our-early-stage-researchers/emily-judson/
Links
- Blog: Conceptualising the emerging digital energy landscape
- Presentation to a postgraduate conference, Lancaster University: Governing digital energy
- Three part blog series: AI in energy - is it as smart as you think?
Teaching
Energy, technology, policy, politics