Chris Foulds
Biographic Data
| ID | 6455673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Foulds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Foulds |
| SIGNATURE | FOULDS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5794-3841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reclaiming the margins in environmental research
European research policy aspires to “spread excellence”, yet Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) actors from Southern and Central-Eastern Europe (SE/CEE) rarely occupy agenda-setting roles. In the context of academic capitalism, anchoring analysis examines how marketised competition, network centrality, and epistemic valuation shape meaningful participation, including leadership/coordination, control over work packages/budgets, and agenda influe…
Missing the humanities? Prioritising affective, imaginative, transformative, critical and human dimensions in transitions research
Promising futures
Experimentation (i.e. a process of learning by doing) is an important part of envisioning and implementing sustainable futures, and can enable the development of alternative interventions that reflect local needs, priorities and opportunities. We assert that experimentation activities are underpinned by promises of alternative futures and expectations for how these futures will be achieved. These expectations come from multiple sources including …
Sharing energy renovations know-how through citizen–professional knowledge networks
Accelerating energy-efficient renovations requires deeper understandings of how know-how (i.e. knowledge about how practically to get renovations done) is developed and shared. This paper, therefore, investigated the role of experimental, locality-specific knowledge networks in sharing renovation know-how. Knowledge networks have been suggested as a tool for collective, experiential, context-based learning, but have rarely been empirically invest…
The Meso Multiple in energy and climate research
The traditional choice of either focussing on individualism (the ‘micro’) or holism (the ‘macro’) when considering social change, is seen as an increasingly unhelpful dualism. As such, the ‘meso’, occupying or connecting the space between the micro and macro, is being increasingly invoked in Social Science research on energy and climate. This paper reviews how different Social Science fields (on energy and climate) theoretically approach the meso…
Strengthening European Energy Policy
How to be an effective Boundary Spanner between energy policy and energy Social Sciences & Humanities communities
Reaching across policy and research boundaries is essential if low-carbon energy transformations are to be achieved. A Boundary Spanner is an individual/organisation that sits between traditional users and producers of knowledge; thus, Boundary Spanners can and do enable knowledge exchange between research and policy communities. However, despite much discussion of Boundary Spanners in certain literatures, the concept has been sparsely applied to…
Gender imaginaries in energy transitions
The importance of gender is increasingly recognised in energy research, with growing awareness of the intersections of energy access and gender equity. Yet, a major knowledge gap exists regarding the role of professional intermediaries and institutions in reproducing and/or challenging gendered forms of energy exclusion, especially in the Global South. This paper addresses this gap by considering the gendered energy imaginaries of energy professi…
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-…
Brokering Gender Empowerment in Energy Access in the Global South
How do energy professionals in the Global South facilitate the brokerage of gender equity and empowerment in energy access? Energy sector professionals, including planners and members of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), are crucial development actors in off-grid contexts. They operate at the intersection between grassroots-level energy access in off-grid household and community buildings and overarching policy frameworks. However, despite t…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
The making of energy evidence
Overland and Sovacool (2020) and Baum and Bartkowski (2020), in this journal, have provided important insights on the neglect of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in energy and sustainability research. In this response, we develop this conversation further, arguing that the commissioning and funding of energy research can be understood as part of a process of making evidence, which is co-constructive with policy-making. This helps us analyse h…
Energy justice in the developing world
Beyond instrumentalism
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research
This paper provides an overview of key themes and concepts within energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research in Europe. It aims to use this overview as an introduction for those producing strategies and interventions to advance energy and sustainability transitions in practice as well as for newcomers to the field of energy-SSH research, such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers. This pap…
Diversifying diversity
Beyond instrumentalism
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research
This paper provides an overview of key themes and concepts within energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research in Europe. It aims to use this overview as an introduction for those producing strategies and interventions to advance energy and sustainability transitions in practice as well as for newcomers to the field of energy-SSH research, such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers. This pap…
Gender imaginaries in energy transitions
The importance of gender is increasingly recognised in energy research, with growing awareness of the intersections of energy access and gender equity. Yet, a major knowledge gap exists regarding the role of professional intermediaries and institutions in reproducing and/or challenging gendered forms of energy exclusion, especially in the Global South. This paper addresses this gap by considering the gendered energy imaginaries of energy professi…
Diversifying diversity
The making of energy evidence
Overland and Sovacool (2020) and Baum and Bartkowski (2020), in this journal, have provided important insights on the neglect of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in energy and sustainability research. In this response, we develop this conversation further, arguing that the commissioning and funding of energy research can be understood as part of a process of making evidence, which is co-constructive with policy-making. This helps us analyse h…
The Meso Multiple in energy and climate research
The traditional choice of either focussing on individualism (the ‘micro’) or holism (the ‘macro’) when considering social change, is seen as an increasingly unhelpful dualism. As such, the ‘meso’, occupying or connecting the space between the micro and macro, is being increasingly invoked in Social Science research on energy and climate. This paper reviews how different Social Science fields (on energy and climate) theoretically approach the meso…
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research
This paper provides an overview of key themes and concepts within energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research in Europe. It aims to use this overview as an introduction for those producing strategies and interventions to advance energy and sustainability transitions in practice as well as for newcomers to the field of energy-SSH research, such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers. This pap…
Diversifying diversity
Energy justice in the developing world
Beyond instrumentalism
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
The making of energy evidence
Overland and Sovacool (2020) and Baum and Bartkowski (2020), in this journal, have provided important insights on the neglect of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in energy and sustainability research. In this response, we develop this conversation further, arguing that the commissioning and funding of energy research can be understood as part of a process of making evidence, which is co-constructive with policy-making. This helps us analyse h…
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-…
Brokering Gender Empowerment in Energy Access in the Global South
How do energy professionals in the Global South facilitate the brokerage of gender equity and empowerment in energy access? Energy sector professionals, including planners and members of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), are crucial development actors in off-grid contexts. They operate at the intersection between grassroots-level energy access in off-grid household and community buildings and overarching policy frameworks. However, despite t…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Gender imaginaries in energy transitions
The importance of gender is increasingly recognised in energy research, with growing awareness of the intersections of energy access and gender equity. Yet, a major knowledge gap exists regarding the role of professional intermediaries and institutions in reproducing and/or challenging gendered forms of energy exclusion, especially in the Global South. This paper addresses this gap by considering the gendered energy imaginaries of energy professi…
Strengthening European Energy Policy
How to be an effective Boundary Spanner between energy policy and energy Social Sciences & Humanities communities
Reaching across policy and research boundaries is essential if low-carbon energy transformations are to be achieved. A Boundary Spanner is an individual/organisation that sits between traditional users and producers of knowledge; thus, Boundary Spanners can and do enable knowledge exchange between research and policy communities. However, despite much discussion of Boundary Spanners in certain literatures, the concept has been sparsely applied to…
The Meso Multiple in energy and climate research
The traditional choice of either focussing on individualism (the ‘micro’) or holism (the ‘macro’) when considering social change, is seen as an increasingly unhelpful dualism. As such, the ‘meso’, occupying or connecting the space between the micro and macro, is being increasingly invoked in Social Science research on energy and climate. This paper reviews how different Social Science fields (on energy and climate) theoretically approach the meso…
Reclaiming the margins in environmental research
European research policy aspires to “spread excellence”, yet Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) actors from Southern and Central-Eastern Europe (SE/CEE) rarely occupy agenda-setting roles. In the context of academic capitalism, anchoring analysis examines how marketised competition, network centrality, and epistemic valuation shape meaningful participation, including leadership/coordination, control over work packages/budgets, and agenda influe…
Missing the humanities? Prioritising affective, imaginative, transformative, critical and human dimensions in transitions research
Promising futures
Experimentation (i.e. a process of learning by doing) is an important part of envisioning and implementing sustainable futures, and can enable the development of alternative interventions that reflect local needs, priorities and opportunities. We assert that experimentation activities are underpinned by promises of alternative futures and expectations for how these futures will be achieved. These expectations come from multiple sources including …
Sharing energy renovations know-how through citizen–professional knowledge networks
Accelerating energy-efficient renovations requires deeper understandings of how know-how (i.e. knowledge about how practically to get renovations done) is developed and shared. This paper, therefore, investigated the role of experimental, locality-specific knowledge networks in sharing renovation know-how. Knowledge networks have been suggested as a tool for collective, experiential, context-based learning, but have rarely been empirically invest…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (10 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Energy (signal processing (6 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (6 works)