Past events

25 Oct

Energy Seminar – week 3: Functional materials for energy efficient devices – From smart windows to computing devices

Harish Bhaskaran - speaking in person

Summary: As our knowledge of materials at the nanoscale has grown, so has our knowledge of how to structure such devices at the nanoscale. After all, it is the two acting in concert – the material and the structure – that gives rise to functionality. The area of functional materials has a third knob – what happens if we can [...]

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Seminar | Week 3
21 Oct

ONE Annual Lecture – Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene: Promising New Directions or Dead End?

Professor Harriett Buckeley, University of Durham

Oxford Networks for the Environment Annual lecture 2022 and briefing event Keynote speaker:  Harriet Buckeley | Over the thirty years since global environmental issues rose to prominence on international science and policy agendas their governance has largely been undertaken under the paradigm of ecological modernism. Ecological modernism carries with it deeply held and often implicit assumptions which are bound up [...]

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Conference
18 Oct

Energy Seminar – week 2: MSc Energy Systems Alumni Presentations

Zie Chua and Eflamm Gueguen - see below for speakers slides

Speaker: Zie Chua will speak about ‘Behavioral Heterogeneity in the EV and V2G Markets’.  PowerPoint Slides –  Oxford Energy Seminar Chua 18 October 2022 – Zie Chua.  Summary: The lack of clear insights into vehicle consumer demand precludes effective public policies and disincentivises industry investments into electrification. By recognising the behavioural heterogeneity of consumers, our work applies Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) [...]

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Seminar | Week 2
11 Oct

Energy Seminar – week 1: Consumers, citizens or carbon-saving champions? Individuals and their place in net zero energy policy.

Tina Fawcett - speaking in person

Update:  Tina Fawcett will be joined by co-speaker Yael Parag Cohen  (Visiting Academic) with a slight adjustment to the focus of the talk to: ‘Changing roles for individuals and organisations in the net zero transition.  Policy and Governance perspectives. Summary: Responding to the climate emergency is a UK priority, however, the role for individuals is unclear – must they be active [...]

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Seminar | Week 1
07 Sep

CREDS in Conversation series: Realistically Radical Policy Options.

CREDS is delighted to invite you to their international CREDS in Conversation series: Realistically Radical Policy Options online webinar. This will take place on Wednesday, 7th September, 10h00-11h30 (BST). Further details will be sent to you on registration. Equitably and quickly distributing the world’s limited and fast-shrinking global carbon budget is one of the critical challenges of our time. This question [...]

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14 Jul

Sustainability Cafe: Retro Fit

Come and meet up with other purpose driven businesses to share ideas, inspiration and learning around the theme of sustainability. Aspire will share the emerging findings from their feasibility study into realising an inclusive, community-led approach to retrofitting residential properties in Oxfordshire, as an integral part of achieving a wider, inclusive transition towards a zero carbon way of living in the [...]

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13 Jul

International Conference on Evolving Cities

International Conference on Evolving Cities | University of Southampton |13 – 15 July 2022 | Hybrid conference The Third International Conference on Evolving Cities (ICEC 2022) will be taking place on the 13th-15th July 2022 at the newly built University of Southampton Centenary Building (B100) situated within the Highfield Campus at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. Following the success of ICEC [...]

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07 Jul

Breakfast Briefing: The UK’s Role In Developing Sustainable International Infrastructure Post COP26

With Julia Beck, Deputy Director for Strategy, UK Export Finance, and Matt Crossman, Deputy Director for Infrastructure, the Department for International Trade. When registering for this event you can choose whether you would prefer to attend in-person or virtually. Any members we are unable to accommodate face-to-face will be offered the opportunity to join virtually. The livestream will run from 08:30-09:30. The [...]

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05 Jul

An Observatory for public engagement with energy and climate change

Prof Jason Chilvers - Professor of Environment and Society at UEA, UKERC Co-Director and Public Engagement Observatory lead

UKERC webinar – An Observatory for public engagement with energy and climate change, Jul 5, 2022, 2:00 pm This webinar marks the launch of a new dedicated website and open-access database that maps diverse forms of public engagement with energy and climate change. Meaningful public engagement is now seen as crucial to addressing the challenges of energy transitions and climate change. While these [...]

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23 Jun

Strategy & serendipity: engaging with energy policy

The presenters from within Oxford University will draw on their own policy engagement experience in the energy space to offer practical tips and exercises to explore routes to impact. This session is for researchers and research support staff looking to develop skills in energy policy engagement and impact.   Organised as part of the University of Oxford Policy Engagement Network showcase week  

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