Talks by DEMANDers

Talk: If the Walls Could Talk: histories of homes and domestic energy use in Stevenage

Posted on November 16, 2015

13th November, 2015, Stevenage Museum Researchers from Lancaster University, Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove, held an event at the Stevenage Museum, looking at how energy use in everyday life has changed between 1950 and the present. Two specially produced booklets 'Daily rhythms and energy use in Stevenage' and 'Central heating comes to Stevenage' explain how project 3.1's archive and…

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Talk: Lessons from the history of daily life in Stocksbridge: mapping the complexities of keeping warm at home

Posted on July 15, 2015

Presentation given by Anna Carlsson Hyslop and Lenneke Kuijer to the Stocksbridge & District History Society on Thursday 14 May in Stocksbridge. Anna and Lenneke presented a set of intermediate results of their research into the histories of council housing from local archives, and the lives lived in them through oral history interviews to forty-five members of the Stocksbridge &…

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Talk: Pathways to central heating: insights and lessons from past transitions. Elizabeth Shove, Nicola Spurling, Matt Watson, lenneke Kuijer, Frank Trentmann, Anna Carlsson Hyslop

Posted on May 18, 2015

Presentation given by Elizabeth Shove at DECC on Friday 15th May 2015.

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Talk: What is energy for? Understanding consumption, efficiency and demand, Elizabeth Shove

Posted on March 16, 2015

Sara Pasquier, from the IEA, invited Elizabeth to give an opening presentation to a two day workshop in Paris, launching a two year International Energy Agency programme of work on ‘energy efficiency and behaviour’.  As promised, the talk highlighted the dangers of focusing on energy efficiency (alone), challenged conventional methods of conceptualising behaviour, and argued for a more…

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Talk: Climate change and the dynamics of energy demand: why it matters what energy is for. Gordon Walker

Posted on December 8, 2014

Presentation given at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 20 November 2014.

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