Joshua Lait

Joshua Lait has completed an EPSRC-funded PhD in Human Geography at the University of Exeter. His research examined the unintended consequences of policy for energy and resource use, the framing of environmental challenges, and the possibilities for pro-environmental change. During his doctoral programme, he published on a range of topics, including the framing of energy issues in policy (Lait, 2023), the impacts of digital education policy on energy use (Lait, 2024), conducting collaborative environmental research (Lait et al., 2024a), travel challenges for pupils with SEND (Lait et al., 2024b), and the cross-sectoral impacts of schooling on local/regional transport systems (Lait et al., Forthcoming). He has held an energy research fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology funded by UKERC. He published a report on longer-duration energy storage in this fellowship for policy-makers in the UK parliament (Lait & Walker, 2022). Mr Lait has received funding for additional research projects from the EU Horizon fund, IGNITE Network+ (EPSRC), and the University of Exeter. He is the communications officer for the Energy Geographies Research Group at the RGS.