Greetings, NTRANS partners!
As November comes to an end, we’re excited to invite you to our second-to-last Lunch Box Webinar for 2024. Join us on November 27th, from 12:00 to 13:00 CET, for the next installment in our NTRANS Lunch Box Webinar Series. This session will feature Prof. Jason Chilvers, who will share innovative perspectives on public engagement with energy and climate change. Be sure to mark your calendar—this is one you won’t want to miss!
Agenda for Wednesday, November 27th, 2024:
Title: Observatories for Public Engagement with Energy and Climate Change
Topic of the Talk: Energy and climate transitions demand long-term systemic transformations and meaningful societal engagement. Mainstream approaches to engaging society fail to address the systemic nature of this challenge, through focusing on communication to the public or discrete forms of participation in specific parts of wider systems. Partly in response to deficiencies of these approaches, new ways of seeing and doing participation as constructed, diverse and systemic are emerging across the social sciences. One way this is being taken forward is through the Public Engagement Observatory established as part of the UK Energy Research Centre. In this talk I will introduce the Public Engagement Observatory framework, show how the Observatory is pioneering new methods that map diverse forms of public engagement with energy and climate change across systems, and explore how these mappings are being put into practice in collective experiments to help make energy and climate-related decisions, innovations and participation more just, responsible and responsive to society.
Presenter: Prof. Jason Chilvers
Bio: Jason Chilvers is Professor of Environment and Society in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He is the founding Director of the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group at UEA and is a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) where he leads the Centre’s Public Engagement Observatory. Jason is a science and technology studies (STS) scholar and geographer concerned with the changing relations between science, democracy and society, particularly in relation to energy, climate change, sustainability and emerging technologies. A key focus of his work in these contexts has been on remaking how public participation and engagement is theorised, studied, and practiced, including new systemic and mapping participation approaches. His co-authored book Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics (Routledge, 2016) received the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Amsterdamska Award in 2018.
Welcome!
Best regards,
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Director NTRANS
