Category: Energy

• rethinking Behaviour change

  collaborations between Nicola Spurling, Elizabeth Shove, Andy McMeekin, Dale Southerton, Daniel Welch Between 2009-2013 I worked on questions of how to change high carbon consumption – often framed by policy makers as the need to change behaviour. Through a series of Exhibitions, Policy Reports, Working Parties and Blogposts I brought cutting edge insights from live research…

  January 31, 2024

• Stories of daily life in stevenage

  By Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove Between 2014-2016 I explored how professional practices shaped everyday consumption of mobility and energy through inscribing the world with envisioned ways of living and doing. I worked with the New Towns Archive (in Hertford) and Stevenage Museum and used archive research and oral history interviews to look at the…

  July 14, 2023

• if the walls could talk

  By Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove ‘If The Walls Could Talk’ was a public engagement initiative which I ran as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in 2014. I produced two picture books conveying ideas and findings from research in the New Towns Archive (in Hertford) and the Stevenage Museum in which I…

  July 14, 2023

• sustainability new questions new answers

  By Rosie Robinson (Ed) (Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin) and Nicola Spurling (Contributor) In 2013 I took part in Rosie Robinson’s book project which provided a space for early career researchers to write about the sustainability questions which were at the forefront of their minds at the time. This innovative book involved researchers from across…

  July 14, 2023

• The social lives of batteries

  By Nicola Spurling and John Griffin (Materials Chemistry) In 2020 I worked with John Griffin (materials chemistry) on a successful application for a PhD scholarship to fund dual PhDs (one located in Materials Chemistry and one in Sociology) via the Leverhulme Material Social Futures Doctoral Training Centre. The details of the Sociology project idea can…

  July 10, 2023

• everyday futures

  By Nicola Spurling and Lenneke Kuijer (Industrial Design, TU Eindhoven) In 2016 I worked with Lenneke Kuijer, an Industrial Design Engineer from Eindhoven University of Technology. Through a theme of ‘Everyday Futures’ we secured funding from the Institute for Social Futures, the Commission on Travel Demand and Design United, to explore how social theory and methods…

  July 7, 2023