Mark Winskel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6458887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Winskel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Winskel |
| SIGNATURE | WINSKEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Accelerated energy transitions and electricity transmission
Non-technical summary Europe’s transition to renewable energy depends not only on deploying more wind and solar farms but also on upgrading the electricity grids that connect them to where electricity is needed. However, insufficient progress in expanding high-voltage transmission networks is threatening further decarbonisation. This research examines two major cross-border grid projects aiming at linking Norway with Germany (NordLink) and the UK…
Unpacking the strategy of an energy incumbent
In recent years a growing number of oil and gas companies have engaged in the energy transition. As a result, it has been claimed that these organisations have the potential to play a significant role in accelerating the energy transition. However, there remains a lack of research into the internal processes through which oil and gas companies establish and develop strategy for such engagement. This research aims to fill that gap through an in-de…
Have we been here before? Reviewing evidence of energy technology phase-out to inform home heating transitions
The rapid phase-out of fossil fuel home heating technologies is a formidable policy challenge. In such situations, referring to other cases of technology phase-out that are in some ways similar can offer useful insights, and a reassuring sense that ‘we have been here before’. However, analogous reasoning of this kind tends to be partial and anecdotal, so it can mislead rather than inform. Here, we seek to draw more fully on analogous evidence to …
When experts disagree
The pursuit of interdisciplinary whole systems energy research
Interdisciplinary whole systems research (WSR) is attracting increasing interest as a way to address to complex societal challenges such as sustainable energy. However, WSR typically involves challenging research elements (radical disciplinary scope, integrative knowledge production and transdisciplinary design), which are seen by some as intellectually and institutionally flawed. Drawing on the interdisciplinary studies literature, this paper co…
Beyond the disruption narrative
The Politics of Innovation for Environmental Sustainability
The Rise of Accelerated Energy Innovation and its Implications for Sustainable Innovation Studies ́
‘Accelerated energy innovation’ has become a prominent aspect of energy policy-making in response to more urgent drivers for change. This paper charts the rise of accelerated energy innovation in the UK, and considers its possible implications for sustainable innovation studies and research-policy exchange. As manifest in the UK, accelerated energy innovation has a number of distinctive features: an emphasis on relatively short term dynamics (yea…
Embedding Social Sciences in Interdisciplinary Research
Keywords: embedding social sciencesinterdisciplinary energy researchepistemological barriersUK Energy Research Centre
When Systems are Overthrown
Autonomy's End
Despite their obvious limitations as explanatory concepts, `technological autonomy' and `determinism' have often been associated with nuclear power. This paper reviews the persistency of notions of `autonomy' and `determinism' in the context of the British nuclear power programme. In the corporatist and technocratic setting of the nationalized British Electricity Supply Industry (ESI), the perceived imperatives of nuclear power technology were of…
When Systems are Overthrown
The privatization of the British electricity supply industry (ESI) in the late 1980s and early 1990s was associated with a transformation in electricity generation technology. In a sudden and unexpected `dash for gas', previously unused combined cycle gas turbine plant was adopted for all new large power stations. Gas turbine technology, politically and institutionally excluded from the industry before privatization, gained ascendancy due to the …
Beyond the disruption narrative
Unpacking the strategy of an energy incumbent
In recent years a growing number of oil and gas companies have engaged in the energy transition. As a result, it has been claimed that these organisations have the potential to play a significant role in accelerating the energy transition. However, there remains a lack of research into the internal processes through which oil and gas companies establish and develop strategy for such engagement. This research aims to fill that gap through an in-de…
Embedding Social Sciences in Interdisciplinary Research
Keywords: embedding social sciencesinterdisciplinary energy researchepistemological barriersUK Energy Research Centre
When Systems are Overthrown
The pursuit of interdisciplinary whole systems energy research
Interdisciplinary whole systems research (WSR) is attracting increasing interest as a way to address to complex societal challenges such as sustainable energy. However, WSR typically involves challenging research elements (radical disciplinary scope, integrative knowledge production and transdisciplinary design), which are seen by some as intellectually and institutionally flawed. Drawing on the interdisciplinary studies literature, this paper co…
Autonomy's End
Despite their obvious limitations as explanatory concepts, `technological autonomy' and `determinism' have often been associated with nuclear power. This paper reviews the persistency of notions of `autonomy' and `determinism' in the context of the British nuclear power programme. In the corporatist and technocratic setting of the nationalized British Electricity Supply Industry (ESI), the perceived imperatives of nuclear power technology were of…
When Systems are Overthrown
The privatization of the British electricity supply industry (ESI) in the late 1980s and early 1990s was associated with a transformation in electricity generation technology. In a sudden and unexpected `dash for gas', previously unused combined cycle gas turbine plant was adopted for all new large power stations. Gas turbine technology, politically and institutionally excluded from the industry before privatization, gained ascendancy due to the …
Have we been here before? Reviewing evidence of energy technology phase-out to inform home heating transitions
The rapid phase-out of fossil fuel home heating technologies is a formidable policy challenge. In such situations, referring to other cases of technology phase-out that are in some ways similar can offer useful insights, and a reassuring sense that ‘we have been here before’. However, analogous reasoning of this kind tends to be partial and anecdotal, so it can mislead rather than inform. Here, we seek to draw more fully on analogous evidence to …
When Systems are Overthrown
Autonomy's End
Despite their obvious limitations as explanatory concepts, `technological autonomy' and `determinism' have often been associated with nuclear power. This paper reviews the persistency of notions of `autonomy' and `determinism' in the context of the British nuclear power programme. In the corporatist and technocratic setting of the nationalized British Electricity Supply Industry (ESI), the perceived imperatives of nuclear power technology were of…
When Systems are Overthrown
The privatization of the British electricity supply industry (ESI) in the late 1980s and early 1990s was associated with a transformation in electricity generation technology. In a sudden and unexpected `dash for gas', previously unused combined cycle gas turbine plant was adopted for all new large power stations. Gas turbine technology, politically and institutionally excluded from the industry before privatization, gained ascendancy due to the …
The Politics of Innovation for Environmental Sustainability
The Rise of Accelerated Energy Innovation and its Implications for Sustainable Innovation Studies ́
‘Accelerated energy innovation’ has become a prominent aspect of energy policy-making in response to more urgent drivers for change. This paper charts the rise of accelerated energy innovation in the UK, and considers its possible implications for sustainable innovation studies and research-policy exchange. As manifest in the UK, accelerated energy innovation has a number of distinctive features: an emphasis on relatively short term dynamics (yea…
Embedding Social Sciences in Interdisciplinary Research
Keywords: embedding social sciencesinterdisciplinary energy researchepistemological barriersUK Energy Research Centre
The pursuit of interdisciplinary whole systems energy research
Interdisciplinary whole systems research (WSR) is attracting increasing interest as a way to address to complex societal challenges such as sustainable energy. However, WSR typically involves challenging research elements (radical disciplinary scope, integrative knowledge production and transdisciplinary design), which are seen by some as intellectually and institutionally flawed. Drawing on the interdisciplinary studies literature, this paper co…
Beyond the disruption narrative
When experts disagree
Have we been here before? Reviewing evidence of energy technology phase-out to inform home heating transitions
The rapid phase-out of fossil fuel home heating technologies is a formidable policy challenge. In such situations, referring to other cases of technology phase-out that are in some ways similar can offer useful insights, and a reassuring sense that ‘we have been here before’. However, analogous reasoning of this kind tends to be partial and anecdotal, so it can mislead rather than inform. Here, we seek to draw more fully on analogous evidence to …
Unpacking the strategy of an energy incumbent
In recent years a growing number of oil and gas companies have engaged in the energy transition. As a result, it has been claimed that these organisations have the potential to play a significant role in accelerating the energy transition. However, there remains a lack of research into the internal processes through which oil and gas companies establish and develop strategy for such engagement. This research aims to fill that gap through an in-de…
Accelerated energy transitions and electricity transmission
Non-technical summary Europe’s transition to renewable energy depends not only on deploying more wind and solar farms but also on upgrading the electricity grids that connect them to where electricity is needed. However, insufficient progress in expanding high-voltage transmission networks is threatening further decarbonisation. This research examines two major cross-border grid projects aiming at linking Norway with Germany (NordLink) and the UK…
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Energy (signal processing (5 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works)