Transitions in practice: climate change and everyday life
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Sociology
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ORCID iD |
| E Shove (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Elisabeth Shove (Author)
(2012)
Putting practice into policy
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2010)
Scope, scale and processes of socio-technical change : conceptualising dynamic regimes of energy demand
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2011)
Transitions in practice : implications for sustainable consumption
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2010)
Tracking 22 degrees c : characterising the multiple geographies of sociotechnical regimes
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2011)
Practices, intermediary devices and energy consumption : identifying the missing pieces
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2011)
Social practice and energy demand
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2011)
Keeping cool : climate change policy and the tiny details of daily life
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2012)
Sustainable consumption and sustainable practices
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2009)
Beyond the ABC : climate change and challenges for policy
Elizabeth Shove (Author)
(2012)
Transitions in practice : climate change and everyday life
| Description | The DEMAND centre provided new ideas and evidence about how energy demand is constituted, and how it changes. The research covered different sectors, domestic and commerical environments, travel and mobility, health care and more. It showed that energy demand is an outcome of changing social practices as these are organsied across space and time. It provided concrete suggestions as to how different policy makers might intervene in these processes. |
| Exploitation Route | New ideas about how demand is constituted and how it might be steered and changed |
| Sectors | Construction,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Transport |
| URL | http://www.demandac.uk |
| Description | The debate has shifted from behaviour to practice across different areas of public policy |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Beyond behaviour : social theory and climate change policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This is a free seminar hosted by the Centre for Design and the Sustainable Urban Regional Futures (SURF) Program, Global Cities Research Institute. Professor Elizabeth Shove is a pre-eminent sociologist who has dedicated her career to studying everyday life, inconspicuous consumption, and social change. In her most recent three year UK Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) fellowship, Transitions in practice: Climate change and everyday life, Elizabeth engaged UK academics, policy makers and program deliverers in understanding and rethinking this major social and environmental challenge from new theoretical perspectives. In this presentation, Elizabeth will outline the pervasive ABC - Attitudes, Behaviour, Choice - model permeating policy making and program delivery, and introduce new theoretical perspectives that reframe the major sustainability challenges of our time. She will provide novel examples of how everyday life is changing, how policy makers are already intervening, and how they might seek to reorient normal ways of life. Elizabeth has published and (co)authored many books, including Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience (2003), Infrastructures of Consumption (2005), The Design of Everyday Life (2007), Time, Consumption and Everyday Life (2009), Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society (2009), and The Dynamics of Social Practice (2012). The presentation will be introduced by Dr Yolande Strengers, a SURF researcher based in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, where she leads the Beyond Behaviour Change research area. The presentation will be followed by a facilitated discussion led by SURF Research Leader, Professor Ralph Horne, Director of Research and Innovation, College of Design and Social Context. Elizabeth Shove's travel is supported by an RMIT Foundation International Visiting Fellowship. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Beyond behaviour : social theory and climate change policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | In the UK and in other countries too, environmental policy makers are increasingly interested in the potential for mitigating and adapting to the challenges of climate change by persuading people to adopt more environmentally friendly ways of life. Campaigns focusing on individual attitudes, behaviours and choices are much in vogue. One problem is that such initiatives rest on a very limited understanding of how the social world is organised and how it changes. In this presentation Professor Shove will explore other ways of conceptualising the dynamics of daily life and the patterns of consumption that follow. The suggestion that people consume energy, water and other natural resources in the course of accomplishing social practices - for example, showering, commuting, eating, etc. - provides the starting point for a more detailed discussion of how more and less environmentally problematic practices come into being, and how they are carried and reproduced. This begs further questions about how environmental policy influences the dynamics of social practice and about the potential for deliberate intervention at this scale. She will conclude by reflecting on the role and relevance of social theory and the challenges involved in putting 'practice' into environmental policy. Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University in England. She has recently completed a climate change leadership fellowship on "Transitions in Practice: Climate Change and Everyday Life", funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. As part of the Transitions in Practice fellowship she produced and directed an 'Extraordinary Lecture on how the social sciences can help climate change policy' - available as an online film, and an accompanying exhibition of ideas also available here. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Beyond the ABC : how social science can help climate change policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at New Zealand Climate Change Centre workshop "Degrees of Possiblity: igniting social knowledge around climate change" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Climate change and everyday life : theories of practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture at Wageningen Agricultural University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Concepts and paradigms of change in environmental policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | An analysis of recent environmental policy in term of how social change is framed and understood. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Conceptualising transitions in practice : energy, everyday life and climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Consumption and practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited contribution to a workshop on smart grids and energy demand |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Conventions of comfort, cooling and the indoor climate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture, Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Cooling and comfort |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture, Univeresity of Western Sydney |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Designing household energy practices |
| 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 | VLB Brussels workshop on household energy practices |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Energy and everyday life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture, University of Cardiff public lecture series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Energy and social science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised; presented and ran half day workshop on energy and social science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Energy transitions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop in preparation for an edited collection on Energy Transitions, edited by Loorbach and Verbong |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | How people use and misuse buildings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to an ESRC/TSB event - generated text for ESRC policy briefing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | How to put society into climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture, BSA presidential debate on climate change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Laundry and cleanliness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview on Woman's hour, Radio 4. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Smart grids, consumers, and changing systems of social practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on societal and policy dimension of Smart Grids |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Social science, consumption and climate change policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote lecture, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Social theory and climate change |
| 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 | Presentation and workshop for various departments at the Victorian Government, Melbourne - interdepartmental seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Sustainable practices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to one day event on 'Changing Behaviour', University of Newcastle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Sustainable practices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited roundtable discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Sweat and cool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to the 'Science and Justice' Group UC Santa Cruz |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | The material culture of room temperature |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to workshop on material culture, University of Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | The uses and users of social science : a critical discussion of policy relevance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented at seminar on 'Mobilising Swedish social science research on sustainability' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Theories of practice and questions of circulation, diffusion and reproduction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to workshop on theories of practice, Sheffield University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Transitions and end user practices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Lecture and keynote presentation at the final conference of the Dutch KSI programme, Rotterdam. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Transitions in practice : climate change and everyday lIfe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Distinguished professor lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Transitions in practice : consumption and climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited visiting professor lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Transitions in practice, consumption and indoor climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited public lecture on consumption at the University of Lisbon |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Written evidence from Professor Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University (BC 45) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Written evidence was given by Professor Elizabeth Shove to the Science and Technology Select Committee |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/science-technology/behaviourchange/BCOralandWrit... |