The UK Living Lab Country Report is now available online, it can be downloaded from here. Please contact the Kingston University team if you have any questions or comments (m.iskandarova@kingston.ac.uk).
In early 2019 the UK ELLs came to an end with a follow-up survey sent to our participants in February. The UK team concentrated their efforts on analysis of the rich data collected; the National Report for the UK presents some interesting findings. For example, participation in the study led to significant changes in heating awareness and practices of the UK participants. Most of them were able to reduce the indoor temperature and still feel comfortable and warm enough. As a result of the laundry challenge the number of weekly wash cycles went down.
The UK team (Audley Genus and Marfuga Iskandarova) organised a closing ENERGISE event at the White Rock Hotel in Hastings on 25th April 2019. The event was attended by ELL participants (ELL1 & ELL2), representatives of the local implementation partner Energise Sussex Coast, local press and the council.
Since the start of 2019 WP6 has produced and submitted to the European Commission three deliverables, including Policy report (D6.5), Policy briefing (D6.2) and Workshop proceedings report (D6.8), which are available now online on the ENERGISE website.
The UK Energy Living Labs are based on the south coast of England, around the towns of St Leonards and Hastings. Participants include people from various faith groups and ethnicities and include people with a wide range of educational achievement.
The SHAPE ENERGY project recently published an edited book about Lessons on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities into energy policy. ENERGISE researchers Audley Genus, Frances Fahy, Gary Goggins, Marfuga Iskandarova, and Senja Laakso contributed a chapter on „Imaginaries and Practices: Learning from ‘ENERGISE’ About the Integration of Social Sciences with the EU Energy Union”.
As part of the Routledge SCORAI Studies on Sustainable Consumption series, a new book was published in December 2017 by a group of SCORAI Europe researchers also engaged in ENERGISE (Julia Backhaus, Audley Genus, Sylvia Lorek and Edina Vadovics), in collaboration with th