Dr Cat Butler
@drcatbutler.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Exeter researching societal transitions for equitable, resilient, environmentally sustainable futures
@energygeography.bsky.social Sad to say farewell as chair at the AGM today but looking forward to taking part in all the excellent things to come from the group next year!
August 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@energygeography.bsky.social Sad to say farewell as chair at the AGM today but looking forward to taking part in all the excellent things to come from the group next year!
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Here is the list of EnGRG's sponsored sessions for day 2 of the RGS Annual Conference 2025! A reminder that our AGM is at lunchtime in the Arts Building: LR6 (hybrid)
August 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Here is the list of EnGRG's sponsored sessions for day 2 of the RGS Annual Conference 2025! A reminder that our AGM is at lunchtime in the Arts Building: LR6 (hybrid)
@rgsibg.bsky.social Shame to have leave #RGS2025 early but coming away feeling energised and inspired!
August 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
@rgsibg.bsky.social Shame to have leave #RGS2025 early but coming away feeling energised and inspired!
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Please join us today online for a great day of talks on just energy transitions!
🚨1-day online PGR conference on Just Energy Transitions! 10-4PM GMT 10th July. Please join us for a day of exciting talks. Register here:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fc808b... @edrc-uk.bsky.social @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fc808b... @edrc-uk.bsky.social @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Please join us today online for a great day of talks on just energy transitions!
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@rgsibg.bsky.social conference 2025 is here! We've had a lovely outing to discuss all things energy geography at the Tyseley energy park in Brum. Looking forward to seeing everyone at our group's sponsored sessions this week @imogenrattle.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference 2025 is here! We've had a lovely outing to discuss all things energy geography at the Tyseley energy park in Brum. Looking forward to seeing everyone at our group's sponsored sessions this week @imogenrattle.bsky.social
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🚨Please check out our guide to the Energy Geography Research Group's sponsored sessions for today at the RGS 2025 👇👀
August 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨Please check out our guide to the Energy Geography Research Group's sponsored sessions for today at the RGS 2025 👇👀
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Transforming Homes Webinar: Giving everyone a voice through Co-Design - Sign up now!
Chair: @drcatbutler.bsky.social
Speakers:
Ailbhe Cunningham (Ample Space)
@jamesneward.bsky.social (@coophousinguk.bsky.social)
Lucy McFadzean (@universityofexeter.bsky.social )
Daniel Williams (@wchg.bsky.social)
Chair: @drcatbutler.bsky.social
Speakers:
Ailbhe Cunningham (Ample Space)
@jamesneward.bsky.social (@coophousinguk.bsky.social)
Lucy McFadzean (@universityofexeter.bsky.social )
Daniel Williams (@wchg.bsky.social)
June 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Transforming Homes Webinar: Giving everyone a voice through Co-Design - Sign up now!
Chair: @drcatbutler.bsky.social
Speakers:
Ailbhe Cunningham (Ample Space)
@jamesneward.bsky.social (@coophousinguk.bsky.social)
Lucy McFadzean (@universityofexeter.bsky.social )
Daniel Williams (@wchg.bsky.social)
Chair: @drcatbutler.bsky.social
Speakers:
Ailbhe Cunningham (Ample Space)
@jamesneward.bsky.social (@coophousinguk.bsky.social)
Lucy McFadzean (@universityofexeter.bsky.social )
Daniel Williams (@wchg.bsky.social)
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Join our three-part webinar series this June and July. Explore how Design Research and Co-Design are shaping the future of UK housing, with insights from the #TransformingHomes consortium and partners. Register now to secure your place. #UKRI #AHRC #GreenTransition
May 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Join our three-part webinar series this June and July. Explore how Design Research and Co-Design are shaping the future of UK housing, with insights from the #TransformingHomes consortium and partners. Register now to secure your place. #UKRI #AHRC #GreenTransition
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Excellent piece by Gordon Brown - reminding us about the 4.5m children languishing in poverty in UK. It's getting worse by the day. It's NOT about workshy parents: 7/10 poor children live in households with one working parent. Child poverty is not inevitable. The Government CAN do something about it
"Seventy-five per cent of people, according to a new poll commissioned by me and the New Statesman, believe child poverty to be 'morally wrong'."
Gordon Brown: Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
Gordon Brown: Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
www.newstatesman.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Excellent piece by Gordon Brown - reminding us about the 4.5m children languishing in poverty in UK. It's getting worse by the day. It's NOT about workshy parents: 7/10 poor children live in households with one working parent. Child poverty is not inevitable. The Government CAN do something about it
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Unexpected - EU companies increasingly aligned with climate action
“Those vocally organising to oppose the energy transition achieve outsized importance across public debate. However, there is a larger, quieter majority that are supportive of decarbonisation”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Those vocally organising to oppose the energy transition achieve outsized importance across public debate. However, there is a larger, quieter majority that are supportive of decarbonisation”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
European firms ramping up lobbying for climate action, report finds
Research shows companies ‘aligned’ with strategies to meet climate goals have risen from 3% in 2019 to 23% in 2025
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Unexpected - EU companies increasingly aligned with climate action
“Those vocally organising to oppose the energy transition achieve outsized importance across public debate. However, there is a larger, quieter majority that are supportive of decarbonisation”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Those vocally organising to oppose the energy transition achieve outsized importance across public debate. However, there is a larger, quieter majority that are supportive of decarbonisation”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Did you know that electricity is often taxed more than fossil fuels in the EU?
It’s a policy choice that makes electrification less competitive.
Our @regassistproj.bsky.social report explores how taxes and levies shape this imbalance and what can be done.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
It’s a policy choice that makes electrification less competitive.
Our @regassistproj.bsky.social report explores how taxes and levies shape this imbalance and what can be done.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
May 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Did you know that electricity is often taxed more than fossil fuels in the EU?
It’s a policy choice that makes electrification less competitive.
Our @regassistproj.bsky.social report explores how taxes and levies shape this imbalance and what can be done.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
It’s a policy choice that makes electrification less competitive.
Our @regassistproj.bsky.social report explores how taxes and levies shape this imbalance and what can be done.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
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A good eg here of changes made during the pandemic taking the slow steps from formal trial to permanent reallocation of street space away from cars and towards people. Great to see. Trials/pilots are a crucial part of demonstrating what reprioritised streets look/feel like & building public support
Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
Traffic bans on several city centre streets are to be made permanent after being trialled over the past year and a half.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A good eg here of changes made during the pandemic taking the slow steps from formal trial to permanent reallocation of street space away from cars and towards people. Great to see. Trials/pilots are a crucial part of demonstrating what reprioritised streets look/feel like & building public support
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Recently, @drcatbutler.bsky.social shared Transforming Homes insights at HAMMAR Southwest meeting #NHMF on engaging residents to transform 1920–40 council housing, from 1-to-1 resident conversations to collective events that bring residents together to discuss and learn from their lived experiences.
May 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Recently, @drcatbutler.bsky.social shared Transforming Homes insights at HAMMAR Southwest meeting #NHMF on engaging residents to transform 1920–40 council housing, from 1-to-1 resident conversations to collective events that bring residents together to discuss and learn from their lived experiences.
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🇩🇪🔌↩️ 1/ A little good news for a change: CO2 emissions of the German power sector have been at a record low in 2024, according to recently released data by the @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social . A few observations in a brief 🧵
April 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
🇩🇪🔌↩️ 1/ A little good news for a change: CO2 emissions of the German power sector have been at a record low in 2024, according to recently released data by the @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social . A few observations in a brief 🧵
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The full report is well worth a skim through.
Includes this incredible mode share chart showing “people walking, wheeling and cycling make up three quarters of all observed travel activity and 85% during peak hours.” Love it.
Available here: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
Includes this incredible mode share chart showing “people walking, wheeling and cycling make up three quarters of all observed travel activity and 85% during peak hours.” Love it.
Available here: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
April 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The full report is well worth a skim through.
Includes this incredible mode share chart showing “people walking, wheeling and cycling make up three quarters of all observed travel activity and 85% during peak hours.” Love it.
Available here: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
Includes this incredible mode share chart showing “people walking, wheeling and cycling make up three quarters of all observed travel activity and 85% during peak hours.” Love it.
Available here: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
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Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
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To all the #energyjustice peeps out there: have you considered submitting and application to our Activism Award yet? Know someone who should be considered? #energy #geography #justice #envhum #climatepolitics #climate
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
April 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
To all the #energyjustice peeps out there: have you considered submitting and application to our Activism Award yet? Know someone who should be considered? #energy #geography #justice #envhum #climatepolitics #climate
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📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
PGR Paper Competition | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Are you a PGR student (Masters or PhD) working on #energygeography? Consider applying to one of our PGR paper prizes! Check out the application in the link below 👇
📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
PGR Paper Competition | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Are you a PGR student (Masters or PhD) working on #energygeography? Consider applying to one of our PGR paper prizes! Check out the application in the link below 👇
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Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...
EnGRG A Spotlight on... Marie Claire Brisbois
YouTube video by Energy Geographies Research Group
www.youtube.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...
@yolandestreng.bsky.social Hi Yolande- we are here this end for the webinar - are you having trouble joining?
March 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
@yolandestreng.bsky.social Hi Yolande- we are here this end for the webinar - are you having trouble joining?
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Co-investigator @drcatbutler.bsky.social will speak at the HAMMAR Southwest Meeting organised by the NHMF. She will share how resident #engagement is shaping our demo homes and how UK-wide #community design workshops are informing our catalogue of #codesigned solutions for 1920s–40s homes.
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Co-investigator @drcatbutler.bsky.social will speak at the HAMMAR Southwest Meeting organised by the NHMF. She will share how resident #engagement is shaping our demo homes and how UK-wide #community design workshops are informing our catalogue of #codesigned solutions for 1920s–40s homes.
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Very happy to share a new paper on energy poverty, co-authored with Dr Leila Dawney and @drcatbutler.bsky.social
🌡️New #OA paper in Geo🌡️
'Warm spaces as commoning: Rethinking energy poverty beyond the private doctrine' by @helenahastie.bsky.social et al.
This paper calls for energy poverty policy solutions to look beyond the level of the individual household.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
'Warm spaces as commoning: Rethinking energy poverty beyond the private doctrine' by @helenahastie.bsky.social et al.
This paper calls for energy poverty policy solutions to look beyond the level of the individual household.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Very happy to share a new paper on energy poverty, co-authored with Dr Leila Dawney and @drcatbutler.bsky.social
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📢 New article! How can we decarbonise industry fairly? This perspective introduces a Place-based, Just Transition framework to help industries and governments work with communities for a just and sustainable transition
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
#JustTransition #IndustrialDecarbonisation
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
#JustTransition #IndustrialDecarbonisation
March 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
📢 New article! How can we decarbonise industry fairly? This perspective introduces a Place-based, Just Transition framework to help industries and governments work with communities for a just and sustainable transition
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
#JustTransition #IndustrialDecarbonisation
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
#JustTransition #IndustrialDecarbonisation
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Great webinar coming up from @olamichalec.bsky.social as part of the RGS Energy Geographies X Digital series. “Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policymakers and infrastructure operators”: tomorrow Wednesday 5th March 2-3 (GMT). Register via: shorturl.at/2IMYk
Energy X Digital: Dr Ola Michalec | EnGRG
Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators
www.energygeographies.org
March 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great webinar coming up from @olamichalec.bsky.social as part of the RGS Energy Geographies X Digital series. “Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policymakers and infrastructure operators”: tomorrow Wednesday 5th March 2-3 (GMT). Register via: shorturl.at/2IMYk