This paper was mainly written at my kitchen table with @profmarkdavis.bsky.social, but with a stellar list of co-authors from the Whole Person Whole Place team: @drdonalbrown.bsky.social‪ @ruthbookbinder.bsky.social Iain Cairns, @giuliamininni.bsky.social @mcbrisbois.bsky.social ...

The paper is available open access via this link: doi.org/10.5871/jba/...

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It does so in the context of The Labour Party’s 2024 “Change” Manifesto and its aim to ‘Make Britain a clean energy superpower’. We argue this energy transition must result in fairer, greener and more inclusive societies, and point to opportunities for and risks to delivering on that ambition.

Drawing on our empirical work from across the Leeds Relational Energy Group (LREG), this co-authored paper explores this challenge through conceptual frameworks of social change as offered by Mariana Mazzucato and Torsten Bell.

It meant a lot to me that the room was filled with colleagues from across campus and beyond, with both current and former students, and with my family and friends.

Thanks also to those who have sent such generous emails on the lecture itself, I’m excited to see where new collaborations may lead!

Thanks Stephen! It’s fantastic to see Bristol CC use the model they also helped to co-create as one of the original council case studies in the Financing for Society project: baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/research/fin...

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Led by the brilliant @drdonalbrown.bsky.social, this is the latest paper from the Whole Person, Whole Place team brought together by a flex fund grant from @ukerc.bsky.social - which we have used to establish a new subfield of sociologically-informed energy research on #netzero challenges 🙌