Talk: If the Walls Could Talk: histories of homes and domestic energy use in Stevenage

Posted on November 16, 2015

13th November, 2015, Stevenage Museum Researchers from Lancaster University, Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove, held an event at the Stevenage Museum, looking at how energy use in everyday life has changed between 1950 and the present. Two specially produced booklets 'Daily rhythms and energy use in Stevenage' and 'Central heating comes to Stevenage' explain how project 3.1's archive and…

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Submission: Design Commission Enquiry: Design and behaviour in the built environment

Posted on November 11, 2015

On 15th September, Elizabeth Shove gave evidence in person at the House of Lords (on behalf of Noel Cass, James Faulconbridge and herself) to a Design Commission enquiry on design and behaviour in the built environment. She was invited in response to an official submission to the enquiry For details of the commission: …

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DEMAND2016 Registration and Accommodation Information

Posted on November 9, 2015

Registration Click to go to the registration payment page.  This will take you to Lancaster University online store. Please note, we only have capacity for first authors of accepted abstracts to attend the Conference.  If you are unsure which fee you need to pay please contact Simone Gristwood (s.gristwood@Lancaster.ac.uk) DEMAND 2016 Full conference fee: £180  (The conference…

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EUED Cross-Centre Transport Day, 6 November 2015

Posted on November 6, 2015

22 people gathered from across three EUED Centres in Leeds on Friday 6th November to discuss the theme of change and how this was being understood conceptually and methodologically across the different centres. Morning Session – Concepts The morning session featured presentations from Greg Marsden and Ian Jones, Elizabeth Shove and Frank Geels. At the heart of the discussions was the…

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Are Millennials Really the Go-Nowhere Generation? Understanding the Mobility Patterns of Young Americans. Noreen McDonald

Posted on November 2, 2015

News reports and academic articles contend that Millennials (those born in the last two decades of the 20th century) are different from earlier generations in their consumption and travel patterns. This study investigates the travel behavior of young American adults and compares the behavior of Millennials with those of previous generations using data from the 1995, 2001, and 2009 National…

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