Most of Include's research takes place in Norway, with researchers from five Norwegian research institutions and in collaboration with our 23 Norwegian partners. The international branch of Include consists of a group of researchers at Durham University. Their research asks many of the same questions as the Norwegian projects, with a focus on energy justice and the role of local authorities in energy transition.
Hence, there was much to talk about when Include researchers from both sides of the North Sea met. Ideas and experiences were exchanged, including the transition to electric vehicles and actions against fuel poverty. Check out the symposium website for more about the programme.
In line with Include's environmental strategy, all participants from Norway who had the opportunity took the train from Oslo to Durham, via the Channel Tunnel. In the Norwegian delegation, there were a total of ten PhD candidates. On the second day of the symposium, they had a separate session, together with fellows from Durham University. See the programme and presentation of the participants at the PhD session.
Presentations
Below you will find the PowerPoint presentations used during the conference.
- KEYNOTE: The logic of emergency in crisis times: Exception, urgency, interval, hope
Ben Anderson, Durham University - KEYNOTE: Culture and energy transitions
Janet Stephenson, University of Otago - Local energy system development across Great Britain: progress and challenges
Jess Britton, University of Edinburgh - A social and political energy transition
Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Fridtjof Nansen Institute - Negotiating sustainable consumption in everyday life
Arve Hansen, University of Oslo - Researching socio-spatial inclusiveness of urban densification strategies – using spatial capital as a theoretical conceptualisation
Marieke van der Star, University of Oslo - Decarbonising and Securing Households Under Climate Threat: What Tools, and Whose Futures?
Sarah Knuth, Durham University - Understanding climate policies in rural settings A case study of land-use policy in four Norwegian Municipalities
Anders Tønnesen, CICERO Center for International Climate Research - Westminster Notions and North-Eastern Realities: Imagining Decarbonised Automobility in Post-Coalonial County Durham
Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes, Durham University - The role of local union representatives in just and sustainable transitions
David Jordhus-Lier, University of Oslo - The electric vehicle scheme in Norway
Lars Böcker, Institute of Transport Economics - Developing Electric Vehicle infrastructure in Local Authorities, the method and best practice in County Durham
Tracy Millmore, Durham County Council