Individuals' and Communities' Energy Behaviours
Lead Research Organisation:
University of the West of England
Department Name: Faculty of Environment and Technology
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| Tim Chatterton (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Allen P
(2013)
Carbon reduction scenarios for 2050: An explorative analysis of public preferences
in Energy Policy
Chatterton T
(2016)
Mapping household direct energy consumption in the United Kingdom to provide a new perspective on energy justice
in Energy Research & Social Science
Chatterton T
(2018)
Financial Implications of Car Ownership and Use: a distributional analysis based on observed spatial variance considering income and domestic energy costs
in Transport Policy
Chatterton T
(2017)
Air pollution: Putting people at the heart of the issues
in Environmental Scientist
Chatterton T
(2017)
Public engagement: Building energy futures
in Nature Energy
Chatterton T
(2017)
Making energy behaviour research relevant to policy: A tale of two studies
Chatterton T
(2017)
The Future Is Already Here - It's Just Not Very Evenly Distributed
in Interactions
Chatterton T
(2017)
What should be the focus of 'behaviour change': Individuals or society?
in Social Business
Oliveira SD
(2017)
Heating controls: International evidence base and policy experiences
Spotswood F
(2017)
Practice-theoretical possibilities for social marketing: two fields learning from each other
in Journal of Social Marketing
| Description | Influenced DECC Business plan and creation of post for departmental engagement with academic/research community |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Improved connectivity between government and academic/research community |
| Description | Assessing the Flexibility of Domestic Energy Using Behaviours |
| Amount | £56,449 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | TRN 393/04/2012 |
| Organisation | Department of Energy and Climate Change |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2012 |
| End | 06/2012 |
| Description | CLAiR-City "Citizen Led Air pollution Reduction in Cities." |
| Amount | € 6,692,546 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 689289 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Horizon 2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 08/2020 |
| Description | Commissioned Research |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Committee on Climate Change (CCC) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2015 |
| End | 04/2015 |
| Description | EPSRC Energy Programme |
| Amount | £806,910 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2012 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | EPSRC Energy Programme SANDPIT on Transport Behaviour |
| Amount | £100 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2011 |
| End | 12/2011 |
| Description | EPSRC Sandpit Funding (Transport Grand Challenge: Travel behaviour, habits and practice |
| Amount | £1,113,525 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/J00460X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2011 |
| End | 07/2015 |
| Description | ESRC Follow-On Funding |
| Amount | £34,941 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2012 |
| End | 08/2013 |
| Description | EU STEEP project (Systems Thinking in Efficient Energy Planning) |
| Amount | £19,330,787 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 691735 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Energy use and behaviour change in the domestic sector- review of existing evidence |
| Amount | £56,449 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | TRN 331/12/2011 |
| Organisation | Department of Energy and Climate Change |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 06/2012 |
| Description | Heating Controls: International Evidence Base and Policy Experiences |
| Amount | £18,593 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | TRN1201/08/2016 |
| Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 01/2017 |
| Description | UK Centre for Research on Energy Demand |
| Amount | £18,981,875 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R035288/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Title | $ Dimensions of Behaviour Framework |
| Description | A framework for encouraging more detailed and textured (multi-dimensional) thinking on 'behaviour' related challenges. |
| Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Broader thinking on behavioural problems |
| URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03081060.2013.850257 |
| Description | Institute of Air Quality Management - Routes to Clean Air 2016 conference - Bristol, 11th October 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote speaker at major professional practitioner and policy conference on air quality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://iaqm.co.uk/event/routes-to-clean-air-2016/ |
| Description | London Sustainability Exchange Workshop on NICE Air Quality Guidance with Chartered Institute of Environmental Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NGO engagement workshop regarding the development of guidance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on air quality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.lsx.org.uk/news/events.aspx?id=3747 |
| Description | Book Launch - Beyond Behaviour Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation as part of the book launch for a book (Beyond Behaviour Change ed. Fiona Spotswood) that I contributed a chapter on based on my research with government. The talk was well attended and generated lively infomral discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://policypress.co.uk/beyond-behaviour-change |
| Description | Bristol Festival of Nature event: ClairCity - Society vs the Individual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Society vs the Individual: What really needs to change if we are to sort out air pollution and climate change? Tim Chatterton, Air Quality Management Resource Centre, UWE Bristol. Laura Fogg-Rogers and Corra Boushel, Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol. Spaces are limited for this event - get your free ticket here. In order to prevent potential climate change catastrophe we need many countries and cultures to work together towards a shared aim. However, political, geographical and even administrative barriers mean this gargantuan task is often neglected by policymakers. Despite ratifying treaties for change such as the Paris Agreement, action is slow to transpire at a societal level and may even be reversed by political changes. Instead, environmental communication efforts focus on individuals - imploring us to change our personal behaviours to benefit the environment (Chatterton, 2016). Conversely, psychological and social research indicates that asking individuals to change their behaviour against the norms of society is at best ineffective, and at worst harmful to the individual. Social Cognitive Theory indicates that parts of an individual's learning can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions and outside media influences (Bandura, 1977, 2001; Fogg-Rogers, Sardo, & Boushel, n.d.). Similarly, the COM-B model of behaviour change (Michie, van Stralen, & West, 2011), drawing on the Theory of Planned Behaviour, recognises that an individual's behaviour is part of an interacting system of their capability, opportunity, motivation and behaviours. However, many determinants of behaviour lie outside the individual, and to this end Chatterton and Wilson (2014) developed the "Four Dimensions of Behaviour" framework in order to highlight how diverse 'behaviours' can be, and how they can range from ones dominated by internal cognitive processes, to ones which are massively constrained by physical and social systems and structures. In this talk, we argue that environmental communications, therefore, need to focus on creating societal change in order to enable individual behaviour change. In other words, people need to be given opportunities to change, they need to see others doing the same and they need to be supported in doing so. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-nature/claircity-society-vs-individual/ |
| Description | Bristol Researchers' Night 2015 'Bright Night') |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a public lecture as part of the 'Bright Night' event on different (social and individualistic) approaches to behaviour, stimulating a lively question and discussion session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bnhc.org.uk/bristol-bright-night/ |
| Description | Changing Minds: Communicate Symposium on Behaviour Change 3rd October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the lead up to Communicate 2017, this exciting, new, one-day event took a focused look at behavioural science: Understanding how people think, feel and respond to information is vital to successfully communicating environmental issues and influencing positive change. Expert researchers and communications practitioners brought together a diverse range of perspectives, using behavioural sciences to explore and influence a shifting landscape of echo-chambers, divisive opinions and fake news. 85 delegates came together for the day to discuss, debate and build a vital communications toolkit for the coming year using new insights into behavioural psychology and sociology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bnhc.org.uk/communicate/changing-minds-tools-behavioural-science/ |
| Description | Conference on Communication and Environment 29 June - 2 July 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 14th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE 2017) is hosted by the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester, which has a long-time and long-term commitment to environmental awareness, research and education. The University has recently updated its Environmental Sustainability Strategy (2015-2020), embedding it into the heart of what we teach and research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theieca.org/conference/coce-2017-leicester |
| Description | Everyday Futures Network Workshop Eindhoven 10-12th July |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A three day workshop exploring issues of the sociology of ever day practices and future design processes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/everydayfutures/ |
| Description | Expert Reference Group Bristol City Council Joint Strategic Needs Assessment on Fuel Poverty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hello Tim, Your name was mentioned by my colleague Claire Lowman as the best person to approach regarding our writing of the JSNA chapter on Fuel Poverty. Bristol City Council is putting together a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment chapter on Fuel Poverty. The aims of the chapter is to discuss the issue of fuel poverty, highlight services that are currently available to those that are 'fuel poor' and determine areas for potential future improvements to reduce fuel poverty. We're currently putting together a reference group to provide input, data sources and expertise for the creation of the chapter. The involvement would include: • Attending Reference Group meetings (One December, one January) • Providing input into the JSNA scope at the above meetings • Provide data and expertise • Providing feedback and comments on the JSNA drafts Please let me know if this is something of interest to you. Looking forward to hearing from you. Please let me know if you have any questions. Kind regards, Aisha Stewart - Installations Project Officer Bristol City Council Energy Service Contact Number: 0117 357 6605 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invitation to participate in Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment/European Commission workshop on "Behaviour in Sustainable Mobility and Logistics", Rotterdam, 27-28 September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Major workshop between Dutch government and European commission helping shape the future of sustainable mobility policy and research, and how 'behaviour' is incorporated into this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nwo.nl/en/about-nwo/organisation/nwo-domains/magw/captain+for+one+day |
| Description | Invited participant to closed ESRC 'Beyond Behaviour Change' seminar series; the 'evidence-policy gap' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Closed workshop with select group of policy orientated academics and professional practitioners to try ad bring the outcomes of the ESRC 'Beyond Behaviour Change' Seminar series together and scope potential written outputs for policymakers and academic audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/csbci/esrcseminarseries.aspx |
| Description | Invited presentation at 2016 Centre for Transport and Society Winter Conference on "Putting people at the heart of the air pollution problem: Developing a more social approach to emissions analysis and reduction" 14th December 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of policy implications of research work made to group of influential policy and professional practitioners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/et/research/cts/presentations.aspx |
| Description | Keynote plenary presentation at Air Quality 2018: Science and Application conference, Barcelona 12-16th March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote plenary presentation on brining social sciences into air quality management.258 delegates from 58 countries reached. Was well received as a potentially discipline shaping challenging and radical presentation, that set the tone for the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.airqualityconference.org/ |
| Description | Presentation and Involvement in ESRC Behaviour Change Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to the shaping of the ESRC Seminar Series, was a key presenter in one event and have participated in a number of others. The Seminars bring together a wide range of participants who bring a disparate range of expertise to stimulate lively and productive debate about different ways of thinking on aspects of behaviour across a range of disciplines and policy areas. Attendance is usually around 60 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/csbci/esrcseminarseries.aspx |
| Description | Public Health England (PHE) Air Quality Review, Advisory Group - Social science / behavioural interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dear Dr Tim Chatterton Public Health England (PHE) Air Quality Review, Advisory Group invitation - Social science / behavioural interventions You may be aware that the UK Government has requested that PHE review the evidence for effective air quality interventions and provide practical recommendations for actions to supplement those identified in the Government's Air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide in UK (2017) by August 2018. The recommendations must stratify any recommendations by their health and economic impact. PHE has commissioned five rapid evidence assessments to inform its recommendations to ministers, covering: industrial, planning, vehicle, agricultural and behavioural interventions. An Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)-led consortium has been awarded the contract to undertake a rapid evidence assessment on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of social science / behavioural interventions to reduce air pollution. The deadline for the work is June 2018. Attached you will find the project specification. To facilitate this work, an Expert Advisory Group in social science / behavioural change co-chaired by Dr Stuart Aldridge and Terry Blair-Stevens will be established. We would like to invite you to join the Advisory Group. The advisory group will play a pivotal role in making recommendations and providing scientific and technical advice. Requests for advice or input will be via email and/or meetings. Meetings will take place via teleconference and will include the contractors. The frequency of these will need to depend on: progress or in response to any specific issues that need discussion. Please reply to Stuart.aldridge@phe.gov.uk and aqreview@phe.gov.uk to confirm whether you wish to accept this invitation. I very much hope for your support in the development and oversight of this important work. Kind regards Stuart Dr Stuart Aldridge Environmental Public Health Scientist Environmental Hazards and Emergencies Department Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE) Public Health England stuart.aldridge@phe.gov.uk Tel - 0115 8441417 Mob - 07795617568 www.gov.uk/phe Follow us on Twitter @PHE_uk Protecting and improving the nation's health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | RAC/DfT/ITS Workshop on Transport Poverty, RAC Foundation, London 24th November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Research-policy engagement workshop with DfT and other influential participants at the RAC foundation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | SHAPE - Interdisciplinary approaches to building performance indicators workshop 15th February |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | SHAPE Energy Research Challenge Sonja Oliveira and Magda Baborska-Narozny The project workshop contributes to the SHAPE Energy programme. It sets out a research challenge that seeks to explore and conceive a new conceptual approach to the study of building performance feedback practices. Feeding back or feeding forward? A new lens into building energy use SHAPE Energy Research Challenge BACKGROUND: What changes and what remains stable when feeding back building(s) energy use to its users, designers, contractors or institutional clients? Building performance evaluations of both existing and new buildings across the EU have tended to reveal the, at times vast differences between predicted and actual energy use (De Wilde 20141, van Dronkelaar et al., 20162). In some EU states buildings consume almost 40% of overall energy used, with developing countries within and outside the EU expecting an alarming growth due to rapid urbanisation (Palmer et al., 2016 3). Whilst some parts of the research community address this problem by studying ways building energy use is predicted during design (Oliveira et al., 20174), others suggest solutions lie in more effective construction, operation and feedback of a building's energy use (Baborska-Narozny et al., 20165). Developing energy feedback strategies such as metering, displays, certification and billing is viewed by policy makers, businesses and practice as a key approach to changing energy-use behaviour and reducing demand despite growing calls for a behavioural shift drawing on broader theoretical approaches (Bull and Yanda 20176; Chatterton 20117; Schweber and Leiringer 20128). Use of theoretical tools in the field of built environment research overall is still developing and largely overlooked (Schweber 20159). The focus of energy behaviour research and energy policy has, to date, tended to be on the end user, with little mention of how designers (architects, planners, engineers and builders amongst others) approach feedback derived from building performance studies. In addition, we know little of how those who design buildings and those who use them respond through action or inaction (similarly or differently) to any feedback strategies. What actions change, and which remain stable? Feedback is supposed to enable an assessment of the problem and encourage better practice and learning, but does it actually do this in practice? How is feedback approached and actioned, if at all, by different actors who conceive a design and use its output? What logics guide the process of change and, if stability occurs, how and why does this manifest? PURPOSE: The purpose of this workshop is to explore the questions above by drawing together researchers and practitioners with an interest and expertise in building performance research focusing on feedback practices in the domestic and non-domestic sectors. Workshop participants are drawn from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including architecture, sociology, environmental science, sustainability consultancy, energy behaviour and engineering. The workshop is designed to explore the two questions below: What are the central research challenges to the study of feedback practices? What theoretical tools would improve the ability of researchers to meet these research challenges? OUTCOME: Findings from the workshop would enable the development of a conceptual analytical model that could provide a cross-disciplinary lens into a novel examination of a widely developing research problem not just within the built environment but in other fields as well. 1 De Wilde, P. (2014). The gap between predicted and measured energy performance of buildings: A framework for investigation. Automation in Construction, 41, 40-49. 2 van Dronkelaar, C., Dowson, M., Spataru, C., & Mumovic, D. (2016). A review of the regulatory energy performance gap and its underlying causes in non-domestic buildings. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 1, 17. 3 Palmer, J., Terry N., Armitage P. (2016) Building Performance Evaluation Programme: Findings from non-domestic projects, London: Innovate UK 4 Oliveira, S., Marco, E., Gething, B., & Organ, S. (2017). Evolutionary, not revolutionary-logics of early design energy modelling adoption in UK architecture practice. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 13(3), 168-184. 5 Baborska-Narozny M., Stevenson F., Ziyad F. J. (2016) User learning and emerging practices in relation to innovative technologies: a case study of domestic photovoltaic systems in the UK, Energy Research & Social Science, Vol. 13, 24-37 6 Bull, R., & Janda, K. B. (2017). Beyond feedback: introducing the 'engagement gap'in organizational energy management. Building Research & Information, 1-16. 7 Chatterton, T. (2011). An introduction to thinking about'energy behaviour': A multi-model approach.Department of Climate Change, HM Government 8Schweber, Libby, and Roine Leiringer. "Beyond the technical: a snapshot of energy and buildings research." Building Research & Information 40, no. 4 (2012): 481-492. 9 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://shapeenergy.eu/ |