Louise Reid
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Reid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Reid |
| SIGNATURE | REID L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0577-1210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Van dwelling in Scotland: What are we missing and where should we go next
Van dwelling is the act of living on wheels on a temporary or permanent basis. Social media and popular culture suggest that ‘vanlife’ is a growing phenomenon. We undertook a study to explore the experiences, challenges and opportunities of van dwelling across Scotland, including an evidence-gathering workshop with van dwellers and representatives from relevant organisations where we used creative methods to foster discussion. Through this work w…
Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention
The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, c…
Understanding the intersectional stigma of ageing, disability, and place: A systematic literature mapping review
Stigma is a key concept for social scientists interested in how certain groups in society are judged and treated negatively. Within housing studies this scholarship reflects longstanding interests within the discipline regarding the spatial impacts of social and urban policies on both people, and the places in which they live. We augment these debates by advocating for a more intersectional understanding of how stigma is shaped by identity. It pr…
Digital care at home: Exploring the role of smart consumer devices
In-home 'smart' consumer devices such as voice assistants, doorbells, thermostats, and lightbulbs have been advocated by organisations in the UK such as the RNIB, Alzheimer Scotland, and the NHS. Yet the use of these devices, which are not purposely designed as care devices and therefore are not subject to evaluation and regulation, has been neglected in the academic literature. This paper reports on a study which examined 135 Amazon reviews of 5…
Digital life as a cabaret, old chum: A dramaturgical analysis of older digitalised home residents and their wider caring networks
The use of smart and assistive devices for remote healthcare monitoring is becoming increasingly popular for older people in their homes. However, the lived and long-term experiences of such technology, for the older residents and their wider caring networks remains unclear. Using in-depth qualitative data collected between June 2019 and January 2020 from older people living in their own homes in rural Scotland, we highlight that although such mo…
Care for Transactions
In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish ‘a journal’ in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provide space for more collective and collaborative approaches to geographical debate. This approach revo…
The contribution of healthcare smart homes to older peoples' wellbeing: A new conceptual framework
Healthcare smart homes (HSH) are promoted as a possible solution in response to demographic ageing. They encourage ageing-in-place by enabling residents to remain in their own homes by utilising smart technologies to allow safe and independent living. However, the degree to which they currently encourage relational wellbeing of residents and their wider networks is novel. This critical narrative review provides a theoretical contribution to the g…
Towards energy care ethics: Exploring ethical implications of relationality within energy systems in transition
Anticipating Technology‐Enabled Care at home
The spread and growth of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes, particularly within/at home, urgently requires greater scholarly attention. This paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland who are designing and implementing Technology‐Enabled Care (TEC) for current and future homes. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and futures scholarship, this paper presents a three‐part frame…
Home as riskscape: Exploring technology enabled care
The growth and spread of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes at home, and its relationship with risk, urgently requires greater scholarly attention, not least given COVID-19. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and risk scholarship, this paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland designing and implementing technology enabled care (TEC) for current and future homes. It explores …
Demanding expectations: Exploring the experience of distributed heat generation in Europe
Home Comfort and “Peak Household”: Implications for Energy Demand
This paper draws on a study of Scottish householders living in “zero-carbon” homes. It explores how broader understandings of home comfort may explain changes that result in home life becoming increasingly energy demanding, despite householders’ intentions to save or decarbonize energy. The paper argues that domestic energy research must engage with the dreams, aspirations, and images of home that ultimately drive consumption and impact investmen…
Nudge(ography) and practice theories: Contemporary sites of behavioural science and post-structuralist approaches in geography
Within geography there has been considerable debate about the reasons, patterns and consequences of human behaviour. Behavioural science, specifically Nudge, and practice theories are fashionable fields of enquiry, reflecting a long history of conversation between behavioural and poststructuralist approaches. The purpose of this paper is to foster further engagement with and between these perspectives, bringing to the fore the relevant ontologies…
Practicing energy prosumption: Using unsolicited online data to reveal the everyday realities of solar thermal panels in the United Kingdom
Which 'being' in wellbeing? Ontology, wellness and the geographies of happiness
This article examines current approaches to wellbeing research in the social sciences, reviewing their underlying ontologies to explore which 'being' is implied in contemporary research on wellbeing. It critically analyses themes from the 'science of happiness' for their focus on a decontextualized and individualized subject and highlights the emergence of an alternative, developing geographical research agenda in the study of wellbeing, termed h…
Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK
Energy prosumption has become a common phrase as more householders and communities are producing and consuming their own electricity and heat. Prosumption is a combination of two words: production and consumption, and emerged as a concept at a time when consumers were beginning to be more proactive and take over steps traditionally thought of as ‘production’. In many ways, energy prosumption is nothing new (e.g. wood combustion), yet development …
Exploring the stigmatization of energy efficiency in the UK: An emerging research agenda
Home -ing in on domestic energy research: “House,” “home,” and the importance of ontology
Domestic energy demand is a topical policy issue, with implications for climate change, energy vulnerability and security. Domestic energy demand varies considerably by country, climate, building type, and even when these factors are the same, occupancy patterns and inhabitant's lifestyles also create variation. However, clarifying understanding of the basic locus of analysis: the home, house, dwelling, or household has received little attention …
Environmental justice, capabilities, and the theorization of well-being
Environmental justice (EJ) scholarship is increasingly framing justice in terms of capabilities. This paper argues that capabilities are fundamentally about well-being and as such there is a need to more explicitly theorize well-being. We explore how capabilities have come to be influential in EJ and how well-being has been approached so far in EJ specifically and human geography more broadly. We then introduce a body of literature from social ps…
On sustainability and materiality. Homo faber, a new approach
Low Carbon Housing: A ‘Green’ Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Ambitious carbon reduction targets are driving a new era of carbon control reflecting the UK, the EU and international commitment to mitigating the predicted impacts of global warming and climate change. Observed as a transition away from the more holistic goals of sustainable development (While et al., 2001), the ‘low carbon’ (LC) agenda is increasingly recognised as problematic in so far as it is pro-technological and promethean, marginalising …
Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-industrial City
Steven Miles, London, Sage, 2010, 209 pp., £22.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781412946667 A book that lucidly communicates complex sociological phenomena related to consumption and the contemporary urban environ
Rising to the challenge of environmental behaviour change: Developing a reflexive diary approach
Material Geographies of Household Sustainability
Knowledge Transfer at the Research–Policy Interface: The Geography Postgraduates' Experiences of Collaborative Studentships
The need for effective knowledge transfer has been well documented; however, few narratives reflect on postgraduates as brokers of knowledge when participating in collaborative studentships. This paper reports on the authors' experiences of undertaking Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Scottish Government (SG) collaborative PhD studentships in geography, a new studentship which trains doctoral students to be employable in both acade…
Theorizing the meso level: The household as a crucible of pro-environmental behaviour
This paper identifies the need to develop a conceptual approach that moves away from dichotomous thinking about pro-environmental behaviour by considering the meso level of reality, through which macro level change can be observed and micro level activity can be contextualized. The discussion reviews pro-environmental behaviour literatures, presenting an alternative conceptual approach that incorporates the importance of scale and the social unit…
Which 'being' in wellbeing? Ontology, wellness and the geographies of happiness
This article examines current approaches to wellbeing research in the social sciences, reviewing their underlying ontologies to explore which 'being' is implied in contemporary research on wellbeing. It critically analyses themes from the 'science of happiness' for their focus on a decontextualized and individualized subject and highlights the emergence of an alternative, developing geographical research agenda in the study of wellbeing, termed h…
Home -ing in on domestic energy research: “House,” “home,” and the importance of ontology
Domestic energy demand is a topical policy issue, with implications for climate change, energy vulnerability and security. Domestic energy demand varies considerably by country, climate, building type, and even when these factors are the same, occupancy patterns and inhabitant's lifestyles also create variation. However, clarifying understanding of the basic locus of analysis: the home, house, dwelling, or household has received little attention …
Environmental justice, capabilities, and the theorization of well-being
Environmental justice (EJ) scholarship is increasingly framing justice in terms of capabilities. This paper argues that capabilities are fundamentally about well-being and as such there is a need to more explicitly theorize well-being. We explore how capabilities have come to be influential in EJ and how well-being has been approached so far in EJ specifically and human geography more broadly. We then introduce a body of literature from social ps…
Anticipating Technology‐Enabled Care at home
The spread and growth of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes, particularly within/at home, urgently requires greater scholarly attention. This paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland who are designing and implementing Technology‐Enabled Care (TEC) for current and future homes. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and futures scholarship, this paper presents a three‐part frame…
Nudge(ography) and practice theories: Contemporary sites of behavioural science and post-structuralist approaches in geography
Within geography there has been considerable debate about the reasons, patterns and consequences of human behaviour. Behavioural science, specifically Nudge, and practice theories are fashionable fields of enquiry, reflecting a long history of conversation between behavioural and poststructuralist approaches. The purpose of this paper is to foster further engagement with and between these perspectives, bringing to the fore the relevant ontologies…
Home as riskscape: Exploring technology enabled care
The growth and spread of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes at home, and its relationship with risk, urgently requires greater scholarly attention, not least given COVID-19. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and risk scholarship, this paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland designing and implementing technology enabled care (TEC) for current and future homes. It explores …
Home Comfort and “Peak Household”: Implications for Energy Demand
This paper draws on a study of Scottish householders living in “zero-carbon” homes. It explores how broader understandings of home comfort may explain changes that result in home life becoming increasingly energy demanding, despite householders’ intentions to save or decarbonize energy. The paper argues that domestic energy research must engage with the dreams, aspirations, and images of home that ultimately drive consumption and impact investmen…
Care for Transactions
In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish ‘a journal’ in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provide space for more collective and collaborative approaches to geographical debate. This approach revo…
Towards energy care ethics: Exploring ethical implications of relationality within energy systems in transition
Material Geographies of Household Sustainability
Practicing energy prosumption: Using unsolicited online data to reveal the everyday realities of solar thermal panels in the United Kingdom
Exploring the stigmatization of energy efficiency in the UK: An emerging research agenda
Low Carbon Housing: A ‘Green’ Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Ambitious carbon reduction targets are driving a new era of carbon control reflecting the UK, the EU and international commitment to mitigating the predicted impacts of global warming and climate change. Observed as a transition away from the more holistic goals of sustainable development (While et al., 2001), the ‘low carbon’ (LC) agenda is increasingly recognised as problematic in so far as it is pro-technological and promethean, marginalising …
Understanding the intersectional stigma of ageing, disability, and place: A systematic literature mapping review
Stigma is a key concept for social scientists interested in how certain groups in society are judged and treated negatively. Within housing studies this scholarship reflects longstanding interests within the discipline regarding the spatial impacts of social and urban policies on both people, and the places in which they live. We augment these debates by advocating for a more intersectional understanding of how stigma is shaped by identity. It pr…
Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention
The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, c…
Digital care at home: Exploring the role of smart consumer devices
In-home 'smart' consumer devices such as voice assistants, doorbells, thermostats, and lightbulbs have been advocated by organisations in the UK such as the RNIB, Alzheimer Scotland, and the NHS. Yet the use of these devices, which are not purposely designed as care devices and therefore are not subject to evaluation and regulation, has been neglected in the academic literature. This paper reports on a study which examined 135 Amazon reviews of 5…
Rising to the challenge of environmental behaviour change: Developing a reflexive diary approach
Knowledge Transfer at the Research–Policy Interface: The Geography Postgraduates' Experiences of Collaborative Studentships
The need for effective knowledge transfer has been well documented; however, few narratives reflect on postgraduates as brokers of knowledge when participating in collaborative studentships. This paper reports on the authors' experiences of undertaking Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Scottish Government (SG) collaborative PhD studentships in geography, a new studentship which trains doctoral students to be employable in both acade…
Demanding expectations: Exploring the experience of distributed heat generation in Europe
Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK
Energy prosumption has become a common phrase as more householders and communities are producing and consuming their own electricity and heat. Prosumption is a combination of two words: production and consumption, and emerged as a concept at a time when consumers were beginning to be more proactive and take over steps traditionally thought of as ‘production’. In many ways, energy prosumption is nothing new (e.g. wood combustion), yet development …
Writing it down: Suggestions for a new approach towards understanding pro-environmental behaviour
A fashionable field of enquiry – the relationship between expressed attitudes and actual behaviour in the context of sustainable development – is complex (Staats et al. 2004 Staats, H, Harland, P and Wilke, H. 2004. Effecting durable change: a team approach to improve environmental behaviour in the household. Environ Behav., 36(3): 341–367. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and difficult to apply in a policy-relevant manner (Aall…
Theorizing the meso level: The household as a crucible of pro-environmental behaviour
This paper identifies the need to develop a conceptual approach that moves away from dichotomous thinking about pro-environmental behaviour by considering the meso level of reality, through which macro level change can be observed and micro level activity can be contextualized. The discussion reviews pro-environmental behaviour literatures, presenting an alternative conceptual approach that incorporates the importance of scale and the social unit…
Knowledge Transfer at the Research–Policy Interface: The Geography Postgraduates' Experiences of Collaborative Studentships
The need for effective knowledge transfer has been well documented; however, few narratives reflect on postgraduates as brokers of knowledge when participating in collaborative studentships. This paper reports on the authors' experiences of undertaking Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Scottish Government (SG) collaborative PhD studentships in geography, a new studentship which trains doctoral students to be employable in both acade…
Rising to the challenge of environmental behaviour change: Developing a reflexive diary approach
Material Geographies of Household Sustainability
Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-industrial City
Steven Miles, London, Sage, 2010, 209 pp., £22.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781412946667 A book that lucidly communicates complex sociological phenomena related to consumption and the contemporary urban environ
On sustainability and materiality. Homo faber, a new approach
Low Carbon Housing: A ‘Green’ Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Ambitious carbon reduction targets are driving a new era of carbon control reflecting the UK, the EU and international commitment to mitigating the predicted impacts of global warming and climate change. Observed as a transition away from the more holistic goals of sustainable development (While et al., 2001), the ‘low carbon’ (LC) agenda is increasingly recognised as problematic in so far as it is pro-technological and promethean, marginalising …
Exploring the stigmatization of energy efficiency in the UK: An emerging research agenda
Home -ing in on domestic energy research: “House,” “home,” and the importance of ontology
Domestic energy demand is a topical policy issue, with implications for climate change, energy vulnerability and security. Domestic energy demand varies considerably by country, climate, building type, and even when these factors are the same, occupancy patterns and inhabitant's lifestyles also create variation. However, clarifying understanding of the basic locus of analysis: the home, house, dwelling, or household has received little attention …
Environmental justice, capabilities, and the theorization of well-being
Environmental justice (EJ) scholarship is increasingly framing justice in terms of capabilities. This paper argues that capabilities are fundamentally about well-being and as such there is a need to more explicitly theorize well-being. We explore how capabilities have come to be influential in EJ and how well-being has been approached so far in EJ specifically and human geography more broadly. We then introduce a body of literature from social ps…
Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK
Energy prosumption has become a common phrase as more householders and communities are producing and consuming their own electricity and heat. Prosumption is a combination of two words: production and consumption, and emerged as a concept at a time when consumers were beginning to be more proactive and take over steps traditionally thought of as ‘production’. In many ways, energy prosumption is nothing new (e.g. wood combustion), yet development …
Practicing energy prosumption: Using unsolicited online data to reveal the everyday realities of solar thermal panels in the United Kingdom
Which 'being' in wellbeing? Ontology, wellness and the geographies of happiness
This article examines current approaches to wellbeing research in the social sciences, reviewing their underlying ontologies to explore which 'being' is implied in contemporary research on wellbeing. It critically analyses themes from the 'science of happiness' for their focus on a decontextualized and individualized subject and highlights the emergence of an alternative, developing geographical research agenda in the study of wellbeing, termed h…
Nudge(ography) and practice theories: Contemporary sites of behavioural science and post-structuralist approaches in geography
Within geography there has been considerable debate about the reasons, patterns and consequences of human behaviour. Behavioural science, specifically Nudge, and practice theories are fashionable fields of enquiry, reflecting a long history of conversation between behavioural and poststructuralist approaches. The purpose of this paper is to foster further engagement with and between these perspectives, bringing to the fore the relevant ontologies…
Home Comfort and “Peak Household”: Implications for Energy Demand
This paper draws on a study of Scottish householders living in “zero-carbon” homes. It explores how broader understandings of home comfort may explain changes that result in home life becoming increasingly energy demanding, despite householders’ intentions to save or decarbonize energy. The paper argues that domestic energy research must engage with the dreams, aspirations, and images of home that ultimately drive consumption and impact investmen…
Demanding expectations: Exploring the experience of distributed heat generation in Europe
The contribution of healthcare smart homes to older peoples' wellbeing: A new conceptual framework
Healthcare smart homes (HSH) are promoted as a possible solution in response to demographic ageing. They encourage ageing-in-place by enabling residents to remain in their own homes by utilising smart technologies to allow safe and independent living. However, the degree to which they currently encourage relational wellbeing of residents and their wider networks is novel. This critical narrative review provides a theoretical contribution to the g…
Towards energy care ethics: Exploring ethical implications of relationality within energy systems in transition
Anticipating Technology‐Enabled Care at home
The spread and growth of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes, particularly within/at home, urgently requires greater scholarly attention. This paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland who are designing and implementing Technology‐Enabled Care (TEC) for current and future homes. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and futures scholarship, this paper presents a three‐part frame…
Home as riskscape: Exploring technology enabled care
The growth and spread of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes at home, and its relationship with risk, urgently requires greater scholarly attention, not least given COVID-19. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and risk scholarship, this paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland designing and implementing technology enabled care (TEC) for current and future homes. It explores …
Digital care at home: Exploring the role of smart consumer devices
In-home 'smart' consumer devices such as voice assistants, doorbells, thermostats, and lightbulbs have been advocated by organisations in the UK such as the RNIB, Alzheimer Scotland, and the NHS. Yet the use of these devices, which are not purposely designed as care devices and therefore are not subject to evaluation and regulation, has been neglected in the academic literature. This paper reports on a study which examined 135 Amazon reviews of 5…
Digital life as a cabaret, old chum: A dramaturgical analysis of older digitalised home residents and their wider caring networks
The use of smart and assistive devices for remote healthcare monitoring is becoming increasingly popular for older people in their homes. However, the lived and long-term experiences of such technology, for the older residents and their wider caring networks remains unclear. Using in-depth qualitative data collected between June 2019 and January 2020 from older people living in their own homes in rural Scotland, we highlight that although such mo…
Care for Transactions
In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish ‘a journal’ in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provide space for more collective and collaborative approaches to geographical debate. This approach revo…
Understanding the intersectional stigma of ageing, disability, and place: A systematic literature mapping review
Stigma is a key concept for social scientists interested in how certain groups in society are judged and treated negatively. Within housing studies this scholarship reflects longstanding interests within the discipline regarding the spatial impacts of social and urban policies on both people, and the places in which they live. We augment these debates by advocating for a more intersectional understanding of how stigma is shaped by identity. It pr…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works)