A collaboration between The University of Manchester, Edinburgh University, Essex University, Lancaster University and Leeds University with Fellowships based at Cardiff University, Queens University Belfast and The University of Salford
Management Group
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Elizabeth ShoveElizabeth is co-investigator of three SPRG projects: ‘Keeping Cool’, ‘Theoretical and conceptual integration’ and ‘Engagement, interaction and influence’. She is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, and has an ESRC “Climate Change Leadership Fellowship” on Transitions in practice: Climate change and everyday life.
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Gordon WalkerGordon is Professor of Environment, Risk and Justice at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University and co-investigator for the SPRG project ‘Keeping Cool’ and ‘Zero-Carbon Homes’. He has previously conducted research projects on environmental inequalities, risk governance, community energy initiatives and public responses to renewable energy technologies. He is currently collaborating on projects on energy and equity (InCluESEV), on energy, thermal comfort and older people and on social capacity building for natural hazards (CAPHAZ-net). His research interests focus on the social and spatial dimensions of environment, risk and sustainability issues.
SPRG Researchers
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Sam BrownSam has now completed his work as a SPRG Research Associate on the ‘Keeping Cool' project. He was concurrently a member of the ESRC Social Change and Climate Change Working Party. Sam is based at the University of Lancaster. He did his PhD on understanding how older people living in care homes in the UK are made vulnerable to the effects of heat waves, focusing on how heat management practices are shaped by their institutional environment. His research interests lie more broadly in the interaction of society and the environment, with a particular focus on the ways in which everyday practices might be changed in order to move towards a more sustainable and lower carbon future.
