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Experiments in Alternative Technology
This project examined how social experiments with alternative technologies - organic food, eco-housing and wind energy - have attained wider influence. Continue reading »
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Grassroots Innovation: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
This project examines inclusive innovation and the present-day programmes and social movements which promote it. Continue reading »
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Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy (CISE)
This 3-year research project studies the diffusion of community energy projects in the UK, such as cooperatively-owned windfarms, behaviour change initiatives and solar clubs. Continue reading »
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Complementary Currencies for Sustainability (GICC)
This project studies the growth and diffusion of complementary currencies (new forms of money) around the world, and aims to better understand how to harness them to contribute to sustainable...
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PhD: Tackling Climate Change Through Community (Richard Hauxwell-Baldwin)
Richard’s PhD research focuses on the role that a community approach may play in facilitating efforts to tackle climate change. It aims to investigate the impacts and effects of using community as a...
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PhD: Narratives of Grassroots Innovations (Jeppe Graugaard)
Jeppe’s PhD research focuses on how narratives can create cohesion around novel ideas and practices in sociotechnical niches, through an in-depth case study of the Dark Mountain Project, a cultural...
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PhD: Innovation of Community Energy in Finland and the UK (Mari Martiskainen)
This PhD research compares innovative community energy projects in Finland and the UK, identifies key support mechanisms or barriers for community energy development, and analyses how the projects fit...
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PhD: Civil Society in Sustainability Transitions of Food Systems (Rachael...
This project is analysing the contribution of organised civil society in the UK towards sustainability transitions in the socio- technical trajectories of food production and consumption. Specifically,...
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PhD: Innovation Journeys in Community Energy Initiatives (Jake Barnes)
Jake’s PhD research focuses on the nature of community energy innovations and the journeys they undertake. As such it complements the meso level focus on ‘niches’ of the larger research project...
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PhD: Crisis Currencies: Sustainable Consumption in an Era of Economic...
Phedeas’s PhD research focuses on how the economic crisis influences grassroots civil action for sustainability. It aims to investigate the impacts and effects of the downturn on complementary currency...
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Grassroots digital fabrication
Our investigation consists of two projects. Grassroots innovation in low energy digital fabrication (GI-LEDF) Transformative Social Innovation Theory project (TRANSIT) Click here for a Research...
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PhD: Sustainability Transitions in Banking and Finance (Amber Gilbert-Squires)
Amber Gilbert-Squires The financial system currently fails to deliver, and often undermines, environmental and social sustainability objectives. My research seeks to assist innovative solutions such as...
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Grassroots Innovation: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
This project examines inclusive innovation and the present-day programmes and social movements which promote it.
View ArticleCitizen-Science-Project: REPARA/KUL/TUR
This citizen science project studies repair and making activities within community-based workshops in Germany, and is led by Melanie Jaeger-Erben and Sabine Hielscher, ZTG, TU Berlin, Germany Around...
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