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with Monika Buscher, Cron Cronshaw, the DecarboN8 Network and the IsITEthical/SoRA collective Societal readiness assessment is a methodology and prototype digital tool I developed with Monika Buscher as co-leads of the societal readiness work package and Cron Cronshaw as Research Associate, within the EPSRC-funded DecarboN8 network. DecarboN8 was a collaboration of eight universities in the…
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…
PhD Project by Naomi Hammett (supervised by Nicola Spurling, Katie Oliver and Katarina Psaridikou) Photo by Photo by Sunnie-Lee Davison on Unsplash Naomi Hammett (current PhD student in Lancaster Sociology) is a recipient of an Economic and Social Research Council Case Studentship in partnership with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (ADHB). Using a mixture…
By Nicola Spurling and project partners Photo by Cory Woodward on Unsplash In Spring 2020 I led a bid for a public engagement research project titled ‘Repainting the City’, in collaboration with Lancaster City and Lancashire County council, Street Spirit Design and Sustrans. In this collaborative bid between Sociology, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Transport…
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…
By Nicola Spurling and Charlotte Louise Jensen (Aalborg University) In May 2016 Charlotte Louise Jensen hosted me as a visiting scholar at Aalborg University (Copenhagen Campus), Denmark (nb. since then Charlotte has moved to the Danish Green Think Tank ‘Concito’ as a Behaviour Analyst). As part of the visit we discussed our experiences and current…
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…
By Nicola Spurling and Louise Mullagh (Imagination Lancaster) In 2017 I was funded by the Mobile Utopia Experiment to stage a 2-day intervention with Louise Mullagh (Imagination Lancaster) which I titled ‘Parking in Utopia’. I occupied two parking spaces on Lancaster campus. In one I installed an exhibition of historic maps gathered through archival work…
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