Gareth‘s research focuses on issues surrounding the social acceptability of low carbon energy transitions, energy and infrastructure in everyday life, and how place, cultural meaning and emotional relations shape sociotechnical decisions. He has particular expertise in heat decarbonisation, energy justice, and relational approaches to consumption and infrastructure change. A (predominantly) qualitative researcher, he specialises in affectively engaging modes of public deliberation, on and offline ethnography, and biographical interviewing. Gareth will be working on UKERC theme 4, working on WP4.3- Constructive Contestation: Place, Time and Deliberating the Heat Transition.