Big Green Week seminar
This research seminar will draw together lessons from a range of projects, including the University of Bristol’s ‘Maintaining Momentum’, in exploring how communities impact on the way we use energy. Starting with the planned launch of the Bristol Community Energy Strategy, the day will look at approaches from a whole community scale to individual responses in researching how communities and community groups impact on energy use in their localities. Speakers from the University of Southampton, Edinburgh University, Oxford Brookes and Keele are amongst those confirmed for the event which is supported by the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute and Centre for Public Engagement and the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council).
The event is open to academics, professionals and third sector and community group representatives involved in the field of local / community sustainable energy.
For more information please contact caroline.bird@bristol.ac.uk
You can now book your place on our BIG Green Week research seminar through the Eventbrite booking system. Places are limited and aimed at academics, professionals and third sector and community group representatives involved in the field of local / community sustainable energy. Click here to book your place.
Outline programme – ‘Energised communities: research in practice’
10.00 Launch of the Bristol Community Strategy for Energy
11.30 Introduction and the Maintaining Momentum project
12.00 Session 1: Energy at a whole community scale
13.30 Lunch
14.30 Session 2: Personal responses to energy communities
16.00 Break
16.15 Group discussions – taking the learning forwards, making it happen, research informing implementation, particular issues arising for discussion
17.00 Feedback and final comments
1800 Celebration drinks for the Bristol Community Strategy for Energy