Our Findings: Presentations
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September 3 2018
Islanded, connected, visible, intangible? Mapping expert imaginaries of whole energy system transition
Presentation at 4th Energy and Society Conference, ExeterUniversity, 3-5 September 2018 Presenter: Dr Christopher Groves
April 12 2018
New Technology in a Marginalised Community: Exploring Energy Innovation in the South Wales Valleys
Presentation at BSA Annual Conference, Northumbria University, 10-12 April 2018
Presenter: Dr Fiona Shirani
October 27 2017
Smart Living: Implications for health and wellbeing
Presentation at BSA Conference on Society, Environment and Health, Cardiff University, 27th October 2017
Presenter: Dr Fiona Shirani
September 8 2017
Will the ‘subject’ of research into environmental risk problems please speak up? Narrative methods and the interpretation of risk
August 29 2017
Making energy futures sensible: expert imaginaries and affect
Presentation at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference, Boston Sheraton, BOston (USA).
Presenter: Dr Chris Groves
July 12 2017
Social acceptability & responsible development of energy systems
Presentation at A Smart Energy Future for Wales, Radisson Blu Hotel, Cardiff.
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
May 25th 2017
Practices that matter – linking energy use, attachment and identity
Presentation at Domesticating Energy workshop, Cambridge University.
Presenter: Dr Chris Groves
April 5th 2017
Living in the future? Low impact living and energy system change
Presentation at British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester.
Presenter: Dr Fiona Shirani
April 4th 2017
Talk, text and inventive methods: Insights from studying energy biographies, everyday energy use, and (energy) systems change
Presentation at British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester.
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
April 3rd 2017
Why energy matters: energy biographies and everyday ethics
Presentation at Energy Research and Social Science Conference, Sitges, Spain.
Presenter: Dr Christopher Groves
March 28th 2017
Methodological Invention and the Study of Everyday Energy Practices in Families and Households
Presentation at Qualitative Research Symposium: Diversity in modern families and households – Challenges and opportunities for qualitative research, University of East Anglia.
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
March 14th 2017
Inside Smart Homes and Workplaces: How are/will people react to the changing environment?
Presentation at Welsh Government event on Smart Homes and Workplaces, Cardiff
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
March 7th 2017
Working methodologically in environmental risk and sustainable energy research: inventive methods, material culture and storymaking
Presentation at workshop with Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Cardiff University
November 2016
Storymaking in sustainable energy systems research in Energy Systems
Presentation at Storymaking Symposium, Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University, November 11 2016.
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
August-September 2016
Energy Biographies: Everyday Life and Socio-Technical Change in Energy Systems
Presentation at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Joint Annual Conference, ‘Science and Technology by other means’, CCIB Barcelona, 31 August – 2 September.
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
Care and STS: re‐embedding socio‐technical futures
Presentation at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Joint Annual Conference, ‘Science and Technology by other means’, CCIB Barcelona, 31 August – 2 September.
Presenter: Dr Christopher Groves
July 2016
From Energy Biographies to Flexible Energy Systems (FLEXIS)
Presentation at LCRI Low Carbon Cymru Conference, Cardiff, 7 July 2016
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
april 2016
The grit in the oyster: using energy biographies to question socio-technical imaginaries of ‘smartness’
Presentation at DEMAND Centre conference 2016, Lancaster University, 13-15 April 2016.
Presenter: Dr Chris Groves
March 2016
How energy matters: energy biographies, ethics and the texture of everyday life
Presentation at Energy and Ethics conference, Hotel du Vin, St Andrews, 17-18 March 2016.
Presenter: Dr Chris Groves
November 2015
The grit in the oyster: care and friction in everyday energy practices
Presentation at 4S Annual Conference 2015, Sheraton Hotel, Denver (USA), 13 November 2015.
Presenter: Dr Chris Groves.
October 2015
Energy Practices and Psychosocial Research: The Energy Biographies Study
Presentation at Birkbeck College, ‘Psychosocial research on human engagement with climate change’, 24 October 2015
Presenter: Professor Karen Henwood
September 2015
Living the “Good Life”?: energy biographies, identities and competing normative frameworks
Presentation at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, University of Exeter, 1-4 September 2015.
Presenter: Christopher Groves
Energy biographies: narrative genres, lifecourse transitions and practice change
Presentation at Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Cambridge University, 2-4 September 2015.
Presenter: Christopher Groves
December 2014
Energy Practices and Psychosocial Research: The Energy Biographies Study
Presentation at the Association for Psychosocial studies conference, Preston, 16-17 December 2014
Presenter: Karen Henwood
October 2014
Asking about the future: Insights from Energy Biographies
Presentation at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies annual conference, Lausanne, 9-11 October 2014
Presenter: Fiona Shirani
September 2014
‘I’ve decided it’s best to be confused’ The co-evolution of technological infrastructures & future imaginaries in a West Wales low-impact community
Presentation at SNET conference, September 2014
Presenter: Chris Groves
Energy Biographies: Researching sustainable energy, inventing sustainable futures?
Presentation at Futures in Question, Austerity Futures conference, London, 11-12 September 2014
Presenter: Chris Groves
July 2014
Transformation and the psychosocial: biographies of attachment & energy practices
Presentation at Lifecourse Transitions: Opportunities for Sustainable Lifestyles? conference, Surrey, 15-16 July 2014
Presenter: Chris Groves
April 2014
How to be good? Exploring knowledge and competences for sustainable living
Presentation at BSA annual conference, Leeds, 23-25 April 2014
Presenter: Catherine Butler
September 2013
Energy Biographies presentation at Cyswllt Peterston Connect AGM
Peterston-Super-Ely, 25th September
Presenters: Fiona Shirani and Catherine Butler
Opening up Pandora’s Box: Energy Biographies, everyday practices and the psychosocial
Presentation at Energy Behaviour and Individual Complexity, Oxford, UKERC meeting place, 5-6th September
Presenter: Karen Henwood
Living with Uncertainty: Attachment and Narratives of Care
Presentation at Energy Behaviour and Individual Complexity, Oxford, UKERC meeting place, 5-6th September
Presenter: Chris Groves
August 2013
Exploring the (un)sustainable normal: Biography and consumption in everyday life
Presentation at the European Sociological Association Annual Conference, Turin, 28-31st August
Presenter: Fiona Shirani
July 2013
Introduction to Multimodality Workshop
As part of the Energy Biographies event ‘Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction’ Thursday 4th and Friday 5th July 2013, City Hall, Cardiff
Presenter: Karen Henwood
Analysing Multimodal Data
As part of the Energy Biographies event ‘Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction’ Thursday 4th and Friday 5th July 2013, City Hall, Cardiff
Presenter: Bella Dicks
Sensing the Air and Experimenting with Environmental Citizenship
As part of the Energy Biographies event ‘Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction’ Thursday 4th and Friday 5th July 2013, City Hall, Cardiff
Presenter: Jennifer Gabrys
Planning to Babble
As part of the Energy Biographies event ‘Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction’ Thursday 4th and Friday 5th July 2013, City Hall, Cardiff
Presenter: Bill Gaver
Performance, sustainable futures and community experiment: Enjoyment, play and engagement through the senses
As part of the Energy Biographies event ‘Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction’ Thursday 4th and Friday 5th July 2013, City Hall, Cardiff
Presenter: Carl Lavery
Learning from discomfort – Science communication experiments between diffusion, dialogue and emergence
As part of the Energy Biographies event ‘Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction’ Thursday 4th and Friday 5th July 2013, City Hall, Cardiff
Presenter: Maja Horst
Communities Engaged in Low-Carbon Transitions: The Energy Biographies Project
Presenting as part of BIG Green Week: Energised communities – research in practice 21st June 10am-5pm
For more information visit http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events/2013/277.html
February 2013
Multimodality in Qualitative Longitudinal Research
New Frontiers in Qualitative Longitudinal Research. Cardiff. 8th February 2013.
For more information about New Frontiers please see:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/esw/circy/research/currentresearch/newfrontiers
This presentation is also available – complete with an audio recording of the talk – on youtube:
http://youtu.be/RFUPbUrFULc
Long-lived teams working across the primary-secondary analysis spectrum
Event 2 of New Frontiers in Qualitative Longitudinal Research: ‘Research Relationships in Time’.
7th February, Cardiff University
For more information about New Frontiers please see:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/esw/circy/research/currentresearch/newfrontiers
This presentation is also available – complete with an audio recording of the talk – on youtube:
http://youtu.be/YNb5TXH4gwU
January 2013
Investigating community led energy demand reduction initiatives through the lens of “energy biographies”
Past, Present and Prospective Energy Transitions Seminar.
9th January, Cardiff University (Bute Building, 2.32)
October 2012
Energy, practice and personal lives: Design and Displacement in the Everyday – Open Session and Talk
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting.
17-20 October, Copenhagen.
http://www.4sonline.org/meeting
Energy Consumption, Biography and Self Design
Presenter: Karen Henwood
Electrickery: The Social Life of Energy
Presenter: Tom Roberts
Stacking Wood and Staying Warm: The Rhythms of Domestic Wood-Based Heating Practices
Presenter: Jenny Rinkinen
Solar Transitions: Policy Learning and Emerging Socio-Technical Configurations in Off-Grid Solar Electricity Supply in India
Presenter: Harald Rohracher
Exploring Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Electric Utilities within the Renewable Energy Transition
Presenter: J. Fuller
Towards Zero Emission Buildings: Learning and Professional Development in Energy Operation of Large Buildings
Presenter: Josok Gansmo
September 2012
The Energy Biographies team in partnership with the Understanding Risk Group will be attending and presenting at the British Science Festival – Aberdeen 4th-9th September (dates of our attendance TBC)
http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/ web/britishsciencefestival/
July 2012
Leading the charge? Change, innovation and energy demand reduction in community led initiative
Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference.
3-5th July, Edinburgh
www.rgs.org/AC2012
May 2012
Comparing Cases: Insights into energy practices and community from Cardiff City and Lammas Eco-village
CLUES Conference: Energy in the Locality.
8th May, London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/clues/CLUES_Conference
Change, innovation and energy demand reduction: community led initiatives as examined
through the lens of ‘energy biographies’
Conference: Constructing narratives of continuity and change.
12th May 2012, Canterbury
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/education/career-and-personal-development/events/Conference2012.aspx
April 2012
Families, sustainability and energy practices: Negotiating justice, equity and ethics and ethics in everyday talk about disconnected futures
British Sociological Association Annual Conference.
11-13th April, Leeds
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/conference/
Social Change and Social Reproduction: Exploring energy demand reduction through a biographical lens
British Sociological Association Annual Conference.
11-13th April, Leeds
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/conference/
March 2012
Energy Biographies. Energy and Communities Projects’ Meeting
21st March, Keele.
Climate Change, Social Change and Social Reproduction: Exploring energy demand reduction through a biographical lens
Energy and Society International Conference.
21-24th March, Lisbon
http://www.energyandsociety.ics.ul.pt/
Plenary talk and workshop
Working together: Urban communities as Sustainable Places.
26th March, Cardiff
Energy Biographies (poster)
Planet Under Pressure.
26-29th March, London
http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/
Download the poster (.pdf file)