Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

DEMAND2016 Registration and Accommodation Information

Posted on November 9, 2015

Registration Click to go to the registration payment page.  This will take you to Lancaster University online store. Please note, we only have capacity for first authors of accepted abstracts to attend the Conference.  If you are unsure which fee you need to pay please contact Simone Gristwood (s.gristwood@Lancaster.ac.uk) DEMAND 2016 Full conference fee: £180  (The conference…

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EUED Cross-Centre Transport Day, 6 November 2015

Posted on November 6, 2015

22 people gathered from across three EUED Centres in Leeds on Friday 6th November to discuss the theme of change and how this was being understood conceptually and methodologically across the different centres. Morning Session – Concepts The morning session featured presentations from Greg Marsden and Ian Jones, Elizabeth Shove and Frank Geels. At the heart of the discussions was the…

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Are Millennials Really the Go-Nowhere Generation? Understanding the Mobility Patterns of Young Americans. Noreen McDonald

Posted on November 2, 2015

News reports and academic articles contend that Millennials (those born in the last two decades of the 20th century) are different from earlier generations in their consumption and travel patterns. This study investigates the travel behavior of young American adults and compares the behavior of Millennials with those of previous generations using data from the 1995, 2001, and 2009 National…

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Defining efficiency: What is “equivalent service” and why does it matter? (PDF)

Posted on October 5, 2015

By Rick Diamond, LBNL and Elizabeth Shove, Demand Centre/Sociology, Lancaster University download .pdf

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Why don’t buildings behave the way we want them to? Rick Diamond

Posted on July 29, 2015

“Behave” is a funny word to refer to a building—in what way do buildings behave? For the particular question posed by the title, the reference is to “energy performance” and in this specific instance, the issue of why does the measured energy consumption of the building vary from the predicted energy consumption? Building modelers often say that they lack sufficient information…

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