Fiona Shirani
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 97068 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fiona Shirani |
| PRENOMES | Fiona |
| SOBRENOME | Shirani |
| ASSINATURA | SHIRANI F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6963-4971 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 216 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Opening reflexive spaces
The value of maps in geographical and social-scientific research as tools that afford imaginative aesthetic engagement with research topics has become increasingly recognised. We explore here, for the first time, the value of these affordances for interviewing experts. In particular, the imaginative engagement maps can provide may help unsettle routines of thought, and invite reflexivity towards the assumptions on which expert knowledge may rest.…
Who pays for carbon dioxide removal? Public perceptions of risk and fairness of enhanced rock weathering in the UK
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is increasingly recognised as necessary to achieve net zero emissions. Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a novel CDR approach with large mitigation potential. With undefined social and environmental costs, and evolving economic and governance systems, ERW raises issues for public acceptance. A literature gap exists regarding how local communities view the possibility of at-scale deployment in their area. We address th…
I Can’t Imagine Living Anywhere Else”
There is an identified need for housing to decarbonise, yet new technical configurations of homes have implications for the everyday lives and relationships that unfold within them. Active homes, which can generate, store and export electricity, include a range of technologies that may be unfamiliar to residents and alter aspects of everyday life. With a small number of active homes in the UK, little is known about how people find life in these i…
Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes
As significant contributors to CO2, UK homes must be decarbonized. Active Homes represent a possible route to addressing both societal concerns and policy ambitions, while providing comfortable high quality living environments. However, changes to the material structure of homes have potential implications for people’s ability to live well within them. Our qualitative longitudinal (QL) research as part of the living well in low carbon homes proje…
Voices from the algorithm
Research on energy and society often relies on online data collection. In particular, there has been an increase in the use of online techniques such as video software for qualitative research since the pandemic. We suggest that the rapid growth in generative AI and Large Language Models such as Chat-GPT mean that they may be utilised by research participants; particularly in research where participants may be less knowledgeable about the topic u…
Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales
Energy system transition is essential to support global decarbonization, and will involve the increasing use of renewable energy and the socio-technical transformation of centralized, fossil fuel systems alongside changes to how supply and demand is met. Localization represents an emerging vision of how this transformation might occur, but any system transformation will be complex, thanks to the multi-level, polycentric modes of governance that a…
Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres
How atmospheric pollution is perceived by urban dwellers has long been a topic of interest within geography and the social sciences, whether to draw attention to environmental injustices, to better understand the materialities and affects associated with polluted air, or to grasp how people ‘tune in’ to polluted matter. In this paper, we draw on three interrelated geographical and social science literatures on polluted air to inform our explorati…
Putting visions in their place
Decarbonizing energy systems by 2050 is an ambitious socio-technical project. Such a transition is likely to have very significant implications for social justice, given the increasing dependence of societies globally on energy services. Eliciting non-expert values and perspectives as part of reflection on the desirability of visions of socio-technical change has long been promoted within RRI. However, RRI has typically focused upstream engagemen…
Living in an Active Home
To meet UK decarbonisation and climate change targets, significant changes to existing and future housing stock will be required. The development of Active Buildings has the potential to contribute to meeting these targets. Active Homes, as a particular type of Active Building, alter how energy is produced, distributed and consumed, as well as how homes are designed, constructed and then lived in. Before occupation, Active Homes are designed and …
Transformational innovation in home energy
Decarbonisation and climate change targets require multiscale sociotechnical energy transitions that include significant changes to housing stock. In the UK, the development of Active Buildings, which directly seek to be efficient energy producers, have zero carbon emissions and provide grid flexibility, has the potential to make a significant contribution to meeting these targets. Active Homes as a particular type of Active Building represent a …
A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios
A Missing Link? Capabilities, the Ethics of Care and the Relational Context of Energy Justice
Difficulties experienced in obtaining energy services have been represented as unjust because of how they can prevent people from realising primary human capabilities. Capabilities are relational, being embedded within complex interdependencies between people and socio-material systems. These complexities can cause problems for approaches to energy justice that are based on concepts of welfare rights. We argue that the ethics of care, with its em…
Who cares about Valley people?’ Lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales Valleys
Energy vulnerability is an area of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. In this article we analyse data from a qualitative longitudinal interview study of a deprived ex-mining community in South Wales to explore lived experiences of energy vulnerability in detail. While demonstrating the relevance of caring responsibilities in experiences of energy use and scarcity, we consider the importance of local relationships in helping people to…
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation
What Counts as Success? Wider Implications of Achieving Planning Permission in a Low-Impact Ecovillage
The need for energy system change in order to address the energy ‘trilemma’ of security, affordability and sustainability is well documented and requires the active involvement of individuals, families and communities who currently engage with these systems and technologies. Alongside technical developments designed to address these challenges, alternative ways of living are increasingly being envisaged by those involved in low-impact development…
The bills are a brick wall’
Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies
Family and youth research has highlighted the importance of lifecourse transitions, illustrating how they can have a substantial impact on people’s everyday lives and anticipated futures. Given their apparent significance, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to life transitions – particularly unexpected ones – to explore how they can impact upon everyday energy use. This is a central concern of Energy Biographies proje…
Why mundane energy use matters
The grit in the oyster
It has been argued that responsible research and innovation (RRI) requires critique of the ‘worlds’ implicated in the future imaginaries associated with new technologies. Qualitative social science research can aid deliberation on imaginaries by exploring the meanings of technologies within everyday practices, as demonstrated by Yolande Strengers’ work on imaginaries of ‘smartness’. In this paper, we show how a novel combination of narrative inte…
Relationality, entangled practices and psychosocial exploration of intergenerational dynamics in sustainable energy studies
Extensive knowledge exists regarding how to comprehend the embeddedness of everyday energy usage and resultant demand trajectories within wider social and material contexts. Researchers have explored how people find themselves locked into everyday ways of using energy, and how energy systems have evolved to entangle together practices and sociotechnological infrastructures. There is widespread acceptance that the challenges of transforming incons…
Energy Biographies
The problem of how to make the transition to a more environmentally and socially sustainable society poses questions about how such far-reaching social change can be brought about. In recent years, lifecourse transitions have been identified by a range of researchers as opportunities for policy and other actors to intervene to change how individuals use energy, taking advantage of such disruptive transitions to encourage individuals to be reflexi…
Qualitative Longitudinal Interview Data
I’m bringing back a dead art”
Debates about continuity and change in fathering often involve discussion of financial providing and caring involvement. Whilst there remains a lack of consensus about the extent to which these issues are actually new, they are widely recognised as important aspects of cultural constructions of good fatherhood. One group of men who face particular challenges in being seen as good fathers are young fathers, who have different resources to negotiat…
We are a community [but] that takes a certain amount of energy’
Asking about the future
Temporality is fundamental to qualitative longitudinal (QLL) research, inherent in the design of returning to participants over time, often to explore moments of change. Previous research has indicated that talking about the future can be difficult, yet there has been insufficient discussion of methodological developments to address these challenges. This paper presents insights from the Energy Biographies project, which has taken a QLL and multi…
Meeting the Challenges of Intensive Parenting Culture
In recent years, academics have shown interest in the phenomenon of intensive parenting, which has predominantly focused on mothers as primary caregivers. In this article we seek to move beyond approaches which invoke a maternal lens in order to consider fathers’ experience of intensive parenting in relation to their lives with partners. Drawing on data from a qualitative longitudinal study of men over the transition to fatherhood we explore men’…
Taking one day at a time
This article explores how unexpected life course events can potentially be experienced as problematic by challenging anticipated future trajectories. Using data from a qualitative longitudinal study of men interviewed about fatherhood, we consider four unanticipated events in the context of family formation which are variously experienced as propelling men forwards, imposing a pause, or regressing to a previous life course phase. In these situati…
Why mundane energy use matters
We are a community [but] that takes a certain amount of energy’
Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood
Issues of time and change are foregrounded in qualitative longitudinal research (QLL1) and are considered here in the context of contemporary fatherhood. From a wider sample of 46 men interviewed as part of the QLL Timescapes network, we draw on two case studies of men who became fathers for the first time in 2000. This paper considers the men’s relationship to involvement and the linked concepts of exclusion and redundancy, terms which emerged f…
Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies
Family and youth research has highlighted the importance of lifecourse transitions, illustrating how they can have a substantial impact on people’s everyday lives and anticipated futures. Given their apparent significance, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to life transitions – particularly unexpected ones – to explore how they can impact upon everyday energy use. This is a central concern of Energy Biographies proje…
A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation
Asking about the future
Temporality is fundamental to qualitative longitudinal (QLL) research, inherent in the design of returning to participants over time, often to explore moments of change. Previous research has indicated that talking about the future can be difficult, yet there has been insufficient discussion of methodological developments to address these challenges. This paper presents insights from the Energy Biographies project, which has taken a QLL and multi…
The Spectre of the Wheezy Dad
This article explores concerns about, and experiences of, ageing amongst men during the early years of fatherhood. However, some evidence suggests that despite a general trend towards increasing longevity, anxiety about ageing is occurring at ever younger ages. Drawing on data from a qualitative longitudinal study, this issue is considered here through a parenting lens in light of the wider social trend towards delayed fatherhood. The article foc…
Who cares about Valley people?’ Lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales Valleys
Energy vulnerability is an area of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. In this article we analyse data from a qualitative longitudinal interview study of a deprived ex-mining community in South Wales to explore lived experiences of energy vulnerability in detail. While demonstrating the relevance of caring responsibilities in experiences of energy use and scarcity, we consider the importance of local relationships in helping people to…
Relationality, entangled practices and psychosocial exploration of intergenerational dynamics in sustainable energy studies
Extensive knowledge exists regarding how to comprehend the embeddedness of everyday energy usage and resultant demand trajectories within wider social and material contexts. Researchers have explored how people find themselves locked into everyday ways of using energy, and how energy systems have evolved to entangle together practices and sociotechnological infrastructures. There is widespread acceptance that the challenges of transforming incons…
A Missing Link? Capabilities, the Ethics of Care and the Relational Context of Energy Justice
Difficulties experienced in obtaining energy services have been represented as unjust because of how they can prevent people from realising primary human capabilities. Capabilities are relational, being embedded within complex interdependencies between people and socio-material systems. These complexities can cause problems for approaches to energy justice that are based on concepts of welfare rights. We argue that the ethics of care, with its em…
The bills are a brick wall’
I’m bringing back a dead art”
Debates about continuity and change in fathering often involve discussion of financial providing and caring involvement. Whilst there remains a lack of consensus about the extent to which these issues are actually new, they are widely recognised as important aspects of cultural constructions of good fatherhood. One group of men who face particular challenges in being seen as good fathers are young fathers, who have different resources to negotiat…
Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales
Energy system transition is essential to support global decarbonization, and will involve the increasing use of renewable energy and the socio-technical transformation of centralized, fossil fuel systems alongside changes to how supply and demand is met. Localization represents an emerging vision of how this transformation might occur, but any system transformation will be complex, thanks to the multi-level, polycentric modes of governance that a…
Energy Biographies
The problem of how to make the transition to a more environmentally and socially sustainable society poses questions about how such far-reaching social change can be brought about. In recent years, lifecourse transitions have been identified by a range of researchers as opportunities for policy and other actors to intervene to change how individuals use energy, taking advantage of such disruptive transitions to encourage individuals to be reflexi…
I'm not a tree hugger, I'm just like you
For many in the Western world, there is increasing recognition of the fundamentally unsustainable nature of everyday actions and modes of consumption that form part of normal life. Some individuals attempt to challenge current ways of consuming and living in order to address these underlying issues. However, these efforts often continue to be positioned as unusual or unconventional, meaning that adopting sustainable lifestyles may be subject to w…
Voices from the algorithm
Research on energy and society often relies on online data collection. In particular, there has been an increase in the use of online techniques such as video software for qualitative research since the pandemic. We suggest that the rapid growth in generative AI and Large Language Models such as Chat-GPT mean that they may be utilised by research participants; particularly in research where participants may be less knowledgeable about the topic u…
Transformational innovation in home energy
Decarbonisation and climate change targets require multiscale sociotechnical energy transitions that include significant changes to housing stock. In the UK, the development of Active Buildings, which directly seek to be efficient energy producers, have zero carbon emissions and provide grid flexibility, has the potential to make a significant contribution to meeting these targets. Active Homes as a particular type of Active Building represent a …
Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres
How atmospheric pollution is perceived by urban dwellers has long been a topic of interest within geography and the social sciences, whether to draw attention to environmental injustices, to better understand the materialities and affects associated with polluted air, or to grasp how people ‘tune in’ to polluted matter. In this paper, we draw on three interrelated geographical and social science literatures on polluted air to inform our explorati…
Fathers and financial risk-taking during the economic downturn
Coverage of the economic downturn has focused on its immediate impact, yet change often takes time to emerge. Based on a qualitative longitudinal (QLL) study, this paper explores the ways in which people experience, understand, make adaptations to, and live out their daily lives. It presents three men's accounts of how they have been affected by the economic downturn over the first year of fatherhood; a time when the demands of economic provision…
Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood
Issues of time and change are foregrounded in qualitative longitudinal research (QLL1) and are considered here in the context of contemporary fatherhood. From a wider sample of 46 men interviewed as part of the QLL Timescapes network, we draw on two case studies of men who became fathers for the first time in 2000. This paper considers the men’s relationship to involvement and the linked concepts of exclusion and redundancy, terms which emerged f…
Taking one day at a time
This article explores how unexpected life course events can potentially be experienced as problematic by challenging anticipated future trajectories. Using data from a qualitative longitudinal study of men interviewed about fatherhood, we consider four unanticipated events in the context of family formation which are variously experienced as propelling men forwards, imposing a pause, or regressing to a previous life course phase. In these situati…
Meeting the Challenges of Intensive Parenting Culture
In recent years, academics have shown interest in the phenomenon of intensive parenting, which has predominantly focused on mothers as primary caregivers. In this article we seek to move beyond approaches which invoke a maternal lens in order to consider fathers’ experience of intensive parenting in relation to their lives with partners. Drawing on data from a qualitative longitudinal study of men over the transition to fatherhood we explore men’…
The Spectre of the Wheezy Dad
This article explores concerns about, and experiences of, ageing amongst men during the early years of fatherhood. However, some evidence suggests that despite a general trend towards increasing longevity, anxiety about ageing is occurring at ever younger ages. Drawing on data from a qualitative longitudinal study, this issue is considered here through a parenting lens in light of the wider social trend towards delayed fatherhood. The article foc…
Examining the Dynamics of Energy Demand through a Biographical Lens
It is widely recognized that a major challenge in low carbon transitioning is the reduction of energy consumption. This implies a significant level of transformation in our ways of living, meaning the challenge is one that runs deep into the fabric of our personal lives. In this article we combine biographical research approaches with concepts from Bourdieu's practice theory to develop understanding of processes of change that embed particular pa…
Qualitative Longitudinal Interview Data
I’m bringing back a dead art”
Debates about continuity and change in fathering often involve discussion of financial providing and caring involvement. Whilst there remains a lack of consensus about the extent to which these issues are actually new, they are widely recognised as important aspects of cultural constructions of good fatherhood. One group of men who face particular challenges in being seen as good fathers are young fathers, who have different resources to negotiat…
We are a community [but] that takes a certain amount of energy’
Asking about the future
Temporality is fundamental to qualitative longitudinal (QLL) research, inherent in the design of returning to participants over time, often to explore moments of change. Previous research has indicated that talking about the future can be difficult, yet there has been insufficient discussion of methodological developments to address these challenges. This paper presents insights from the Energy Biographies project, which has taken a QLL and multi…
I'm not a tree hugger, I'm just like you
For many in the Western world, there is increasing recognition of the fundamentally unsustainable nature of everyday actions and modes of consumption that form part of normal life. Some individuals attempt to challenge current ways of consuming and living in order to address these underlying issues. However, these efforts often continue to be positioned as unusual or unconventional, meaning that adopting sustainable lifestyles may be subject to w…
The grit in the oyster
It has been argued that responsible research and innovation (RRI) requires critique of the ‘worlds’ implicated in the future imaginaries associated with new technologies. Qualitative social science research can aid deliberation on imaginaries by exploring the meanings of technologies within everyday practices, as demonstrated by Yolande Strengers’ work on imaginaries of ‘smartness’. In this paper, we show how a novel combination of narrative inte…
Relationality, entangled practices and psychosocial exploration of intergenerational dynamics in sustainable energy studies
Extensive knowledge exists regarding how to comprehend the embeddedness of everyday energy usage and resultant demand trajectories within wider social and material contexts. Researchers have explored how people find themselves locked into everyday ways of using energy, and how energy systems have evolved to entangle together practices and sociotechnological infrastructures. There is widespread acceptance that the challenges of transforming incons…
Energy Biographies
The problem of how to make the transition to a more environmentally and socially sustainable society poses questions about how such far-reaching social change can be brought about. In recent years, lifecourse transitions have been identified by a range of researchers as opportunities for policy and other actors to intervene to change how individuals use energy, taking advantage of such disruptive transitions to encourage individuals to be reflexi…
Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies
Family and youth research has highlighted the importance of lifecourse transitions, illustrating how they can have a substantial impact on people’s everyday lives and anticipated futures. Given their apparent significance, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to life transitions – particularly unexpected ones – to explore how they can impact upon everyday energy use. This is a central concern of Energy Biographies proje…
Why mundane energy use matters
What Counts as Success? Wider Implications of Achieving Planning Permission in a Low-Impact Ecovillage
The need for energy system change in order to address the energy ‘trilemma’ of security, affordability and sustainability is well documented and requires the active involvement of individuals, families and communities who currently engage with these systems and technologies. Alongside technical developments designed to address these challenges, alternative ways of living are increasingly being envisaged by those involved in low-impact development…
The bills are a brick wall’
A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios
A Missing Link? Capabilities, the Ethics of Care and the Relational Context of Energy Justice
Difficulties experienced in obtaining energy services have been represented as unjust because of how they can prevent people from realising primary human capabilities. Capabilities are relational, being embedded within complex interdependencies between people and socio-material systems. These complexities can cause problems for approaches to energy justice that are based on concepts of welfare rights. We argue that the ethics of care, with its em…
Who cares about Valley people?’ Lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales Valleys
Energy vulnerability is an area of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. In this article we analyse data from a qualitative longitudinal interview study of a deprived ex-mining community in South Wales to explore lived experiences of energy vulnerability in detail. While demonstrating the relevance of caring responsibilities in experiences of energy use and scarcity, we consider the importance of local relationships in helping people to…
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation
Putting visions in their place
Decarbonizing energy systems by 2050 is an ambitious socio-technical project. Such a transition is likely to have very significant implications for social justice, given the increasing dependence of societies globally on energy services. Eliciting non-expert values and perspectives as part of reflection on the desirability of visions of socio-technical change has long been promoted within RRI. However, RRI has typically focused upstream engagemen…
Living in an Active Home
To meet UK decarbonisation and climate change targets, significant changes to existing and future housing stock will be required. The development of Active Buildings has the potential to contribute to meeting these targets. Active Homes, as a particular type of Active Building, alter how energy is produced, distributed and consumed, as well as how homes are designed, constructed and then lived in. Before occupation, Active Homes are designed and …
Transformational innovation in home energy
Decarbonisation and climate change targets require multiscale sociotechnical energy transitions that include significant changes to housing stock. In the UK, the development of Active Buildings, which directly seek to be efficient energy producers, have zero carbon emissions and provide grid flexibility, has the potential to make a significant contribution to meeting these targets. Active Homes as a particular type of Active Building represent a …
Sociology (26 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Social science (14 obras) · Energy (signal processing (12 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Qualitative research (10 obras) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (10 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras)