Advancing Energy Policy

Chris Foulds is Senior Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute, UK, and is co-lead of SHAPE ENERGY. His interests involve sociotechnical change, energy demand and policy interventions.  Rosie Robison is Senior Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute, UK, and co-lead of SHAPE ENERGY. She researches sustainable consumption, interdisciplinary working, 'smart' energy policy, and psychosocial interventions.

• Foreword 1. Making Multiple Views Count – Why Energy Research Needs to Be Interdisciplinary; Gerd Schönwälder.- Foreword 2. Multidisciplinary Partnerships for Access to Energy; Lidia Borrell-Damián.- Foreword 3. Energy Policies Outside the Silos; Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Mobilising the Energy-Related Social Sciences and Humanities; Chris Foulds, Rosie Robison.- Part I.  Energy as a Social Issue.- Chapter 2. Plugging the Gap Between Energy Policy and the Lived Experience of Energy Poverty: Five Principles for a Multidisciplinary Approach; Lucie Middlemiss, Ross Gillard, Victoria Pellicer, Koen Straver.- Chapter 3. Shaping Blue Growth: Social Sciences at the Nexus Between Marine Renewables and Energy Policy; Sandy Kerr, Laura Watts, Ruth Brennan, Rhys Howell, Marcello Graziano, Anne Marie O’Hagan, Dan van der Horst, Stephanie Weir, Glen Wright, Brian Wynne.- Chapter 4. Looking for Perspectives! EU Energy Policy in Context; Anna Åberg, Johanna Höffken, Susanna Lidström.- Part II. Social Sciences and Humanities in Interdisciplinary Endeavours.- Chapter 5. Achieving Data Synergy: The Socio-Technical Process of Handling Data; Sarah Higginson, Marina Topouzi, Carlos Andrade-Cabrera, Ciara O’Dwyer, Sarah Darby, Donal Finn.- Chapter 6. Building Governance and Energy Efficiency: Mapping the Interdisciplinary Challenge; Frankie McCarthy, Susan Bright, Tina Fawcett.- Chapter 7. Crossing Borders: Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives on European Energy Systems Integration; Antti Silvast, Ronan Bolton, Vincent Lagendijk, Kacper Szulecki.- Chapter 8. A Complementary Understanding of Residential Energy Demand, Consumption and Services; Ralitsa Hiteva, Matthew Ives, Margot Weijnen, Igor Nikolic.- Part III. Interplay with Energy Policymaking Environments.- Chapter 9. Imaginaries and Practices: Learning from ‘ENERGISE’ About the Integration of Social Sciences with the EU Energy Union; Audley Genus, Frances Fahy, Gary Goggins, Marfuga Iskandarova, Senja Laakso.- Chapter 10. Challenges Ahead: Understanding, Assessing, Anticipating and Governing Foreseeable Societal Tensions to Support Accelerated Low-Carbon Transitions in Europe; Bruno Turnheim, Joeri H. Wesseling, Bernhard Truffer, Harald Rohracher, Luis Carvalho, Claudia R. Binder.- Chapter 11. Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy; Gavin Bridge, Stefania Barca, Begüm Özkaynak, Ethemcan Turhan, Ryan Wyeth.- Afterword 1. Important Contributions Towards Renewal of a Stubborn Energy Research and Policy Agenda; Harold Wilhite.- Afterword 2. A New Energy Storyline; Inês Campos.