Events

How can researchers best engage with the UK Parliament Select Committees and ensure their research has enduring policy impact? The panel will explore opportunities and practicalities of contributing evidence, building relationships with committees, and navigating the evolving sustainability policy landscape in 2026. Drawing on energy, climate and environmental policy examples, the session will offer insights relevant across all disciplines. Speakers include parliamentary [...]

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: This seminar presents findings from a four-phase clean energy programme delivered in Kenya between 2022 and 2025. Beginning with solar providers, Phase 1 strengthened how sales agents communicated the real-life benefits of solar technologies through an SDG lens. Phase 2 piloted training with women’s chamas, showing strong knowledge gains and increased confidence [...]

Energy systems are often defined by physical boundaries and framed as either connected (interconnected grids) or isolated (energy islands), yet this binary view obscures how they actually operate and are governed. To move beyond this limitation, the concept of “island-ness” is introduced as a socio-technical analytical lens capturing varying degrees of isolation and connectedness across systems — from spacecraft, energy [...]