Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Tesla’s techno-cars are the right answer to the wrong question

Posted on June 9, 2014

By Nicola Spurling, Lancaster University Originally published in (more…)

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Working Paper 2: Demand by design: how our infrastructure and professions shape what we do

Posted on June 9, 2014

Working Paper 2: Nicola Spurling This essay outlines some initial thoughts on the relationship between end-use practices, infrastructures and the histories, systems, structures and practices of the planning professions.

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Fly or die: air travel and the internationalisation of academic careers

Posted on June 4, 2014

Yolande Strengers (@yolandestreng) Senior Lecturer, RMIT University and recent Visiting Fellow at the DEMAND centre in Lancaster. (more…)

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Talk: Now or later: Load shifting and Demand Side Response, Jacopo Torriti

Posted on May 23, 2014

Presentation given at the Low Voltage Network Workshop: Advanced analytics methods for load forecasting, customer segmentation and battery control, 15 May 2013, Henley Business School, May Greenlands; and Centre for Environmental Strategy seminar, 23 May 2013, University of Surrey,  Guildford. (more…)

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Research that matters: How to co-design research and co-produce knowledge for scientific and societal impact. Michael Stauffacher

Posted on May 22, 2014

Michael took us through some of the fundamentals of adding words to the beginning of disciplinary – multi, inter, trans – in order to then consider the ways in which forms of transdisciplinarity (meaning extending beyond disciplines to work with others outside of academia) and co-production of research can be achieved. (more…)

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