Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Working paper 18: The Dynamics of Demand: thinking about steering

Posted on April 28, 2016

Working Paper 18: Louise Reardon, Greg Marsden and Elizabeth Shove, April 2016. This was a discussion paper for participants in the change and steering stream of the DEMAND conference, April 2016  

View full post →

Working paper 17: The Dynamics of Demand: methods and concepts for thinking about change

Posted on April 28, 2016

Working Paper 17: Stanley Blue, Janine Morley, Greg Marsden and Elizabeth Shove, April 2016. This was a discussion paper for participants in the change and steering stream of the DEMAND conference, April 2016

View full post →

Pre-Conference Workshop, 12-13 April 2016

Posted on April 25, 2016

The DEMAND PhD Pre-Conference workshop 2016 served as an introduction to DEMAND and its approach, allowing for PhD students studying energy demand (in relation to practice) to meet one another and share ideas before joining the main conference.  The workshop included not only interesting presentations from Elizabeth Shove (DEMAND Director), Sarah Royston (Research Fellow) and Jan…

View full post →

Rhythmanalysis with Transport for London, 21 April 2016

Posted on April 21, 2016

On 21 April, Elizabeth met up with Clare Sheffield and colleagues at TfL for a workshop based on the DEMAND summer school event - on peaks, sites and cycles - which Nicola Spurling had designed. After a talk introducing some ideas about timing, infrastructures and practices - and some discussion of peaks, societal synchronisation, duration, sequence and flexibility - small groups of TfLers…

View full post →

Trends in car clubs and shared transport and future demands for energy and mobility. Kate Gifford

Posted on March 17, 2016

As discussed at a previous DEMAND seminar with CIE-MAP, reducing energy demanded by mobility will increasingly require a reduction in the numbers of vehicles in circulation.  Car clubs are one route to achieve this where members sign up to access to a vehicle for round trip or one way trips. However, different opportunities exist; OLEV has recently announced funding of Go Ultra Low Cities,…

View full post →