Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
I am an environmental social scientist conducting interdisciplinary, critically-constructive research around societal engagement with sustainability. I have developed this interest through the investigation of grassroots sustainability innovations, environmental movements, socio-technical energy transitions, and through the exploration of diverse forms of societal engagement around energy and decarbonisation in the UK and beyond. Across these areas, my research and teaching engages closely with contemporary human/economic geography and environmental social science debates on: a) practice-focused research on the everyday geographies of sustainability; b) geographies of hope and participation; c) the realpolitik of environmental movements; d) the spatial politics of participatory sustainability transitions; and e) attendant questions of power and environmental/ energy justice.
Since the completion of my PhD research on community currencies developed in the wake of the Greek economic crisis as tools for sustainable degrowth (School of Environmental Sciences, UEA), I have worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Norwich Business School, and the School of Environmental Sciences. Through my postdoctoral work, I have contributed to the internationally-acclaimed TILOS-Horizon 2020 and ICE (Intelligent Community Energy) projects, and I am currently the lead researcher on UKERC's Public Engagement Observatory.
I have capitralised on my research experience of critically-constructive social science research to contribute to teaching activities across the BA/BSc Geography and BSc Environmental Sciences degree programmes of the School of Environmental Sciences. Amongst others, alongside convening the MBA/M.Res/M.Sc ‘Sustainable Consumption’ module, I contribute to teaching on the following modules: ‘Human Geographies of a Changing World’, ‘Geographical Perspectives’, ‘Sustainability, Society and Biodiversity’, ‘Constructing Human Geographies’, and ‘Energy and People’.
Key Research Interests
public participation; energy democracy; sustainable consumption; socio-technical transitions; social practices; grassroots innovations; energy islands.
Research Group or Lab Membership
Research groups: 3S (Science, Society and Sustainability) Research Group
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of East Anglia
Award Date: 31 Jul 2017
Master of Social Science, University of East Anglia
Award Date: 31 Jul 2012
Bachelor of Social Science, University of East Anglia
Award Date: 31 Jul 2011
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 1 Active
-
UKERC Phase 5 2024 to 2029
Chilvers, J., Chilvers, J., Hargreaves, T., Pallett, H., Honeybun-Arnolda, E. & Stephanides, P.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/07/24 → 30/06/28
Project: Research
-
Let's 'do different': Planetary Citizen Education Proposal
Honeybun-Arnolda, E., Stephanides, P., Hoerbst, F., Longhurst, N., Maguire, D. & Hoechner, H., 2024, UEA's Biodiversity and Climate Action Network (BCAN).Research output: Working paper
Open AccessFile22 Downloads (Pure) -
Making UEA fit for a climate changed future? Four visions of where we should be heading
Stephanides, P., Honeybun-Arnolda, E., Thompson, O., Vadakkumpurath Raveendran, R., Nicolaidou, M., Irving, S., Chilvers, J. & Pallett, H., 2024, UEA's Biodiversity and Climate Action Network (BCAN).Research output: Working paper
Open AccessFile10 Downloads (Pure) -
Mapping Participation for Democratic Innovations: An experiment in evaluating a citizens’ panel on home energy decarbonisation
Chilvers, J. & Stephanides, P., Nov 2023, London: UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), 27 p.Research output: Working paper
Open Access -
Mapping Public Engagement with Energy, Climate Change and Net Zero
Chilvers, J., Stephanides, P., Pallett, H. & Hargreaves, T., Jun 2023, London: UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). 24 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Open Access -
An Observatory for Public Engagement with Energy and Climate Change
Chilvers, J., Pallett, H., Hargreaves, T., Stephanides, P. & Waller, L., Jul 2022, London, UK: UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).Research output: Working paper
Open AccessFile22 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
-
UKERC Public Engagement Observatory - Mapping Dataset
Chilvers, J. (Creator), Pallett, H. (Creator), Stephanides, P. (Creator) & Hargreaves, T. (Creator), UKERC Public Engagement Observatory, 2022
http://www.ukerc-observatory.ac.uk/mapping
Dataset