AdamPeacock

Adam is currently the deputy work package lead within work package 4; Affordability, Justice and Economic Impacts (UKERC 2024-2029).

He primarily manages research concerned ‘Neighbourhood approaches to retrofit and heat decarbonisation’, focusing on how place-based characteristics and social processes influence the success of neighbourhood retrofit initiatives. His work aims to synthesise key learnings from existing projects and to assess how such learning can accelerate the pace and scale of retrofit delivery in the UK.

He is interested in applying socio-spatial thinking to understanding various aspects of energy transitions, including:

• Ensuring socially-just transitions through developing and promoting  inclusive, democratic and place-based approaches to energy technology deployment;
• Understanding diverse stakeholder responses to energy technologies (the social acceptance of energy transitions);
• Evaluating the effectiveness of governance  restructuring and rescaling in the context of energy transitions, and;
• The role of participatory, creative and/ or spatial methods in ensuring just transitions.