Visions for the Energy Union:\u00a0<\/strong>Driving future energy policy through better integration of Social Sciences and Humanities<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> For too long energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH) research has been overlooked as an evidence base for energy policy. Consequently, the European Commission (EC) are keen to more centrally utilise insights from energy-SSH, to complement and\/or contrast with the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathemathics (STEM) disciplines that have dominated energy policymaking to date. This has led to EC calls for more policy-relevant energy-SSH research, as well as promotion of greater interdisciplinarity in energy (policy) research. Such moves are hoped to assist in fulfilling its European Energy Union<\/a> ambitions, which involve: connecting national energy infrastructures; improving energy security; reducing energy use by \u226527% by 2030; and reducing emissions by \u226540% by 2030; to name only a few headlines.<\/p>\n In these contexts, the SHAPE ENERGY<\/a> Platform is funding around eight interdisciplinary and cross-European written contributions \u2013 of around 3,000-4,000 words each \u2013 that explore, critique and showcase the ways that different disciplinary approaches can (and should be) integrated for the betterment of future EU energy policy. The resulting Think Piece Collection<\/em> will intentionally treat the notion of \u2018integration\u2019 broadly, thus contributions are welcome that span differences both within SSH, but also across the SSH and STEM divide. Whilst a central thread of the collection will be EU energy policy, the basis for each piece\u2019s discussion need not be at the EU-level (e.g. can use regional\/national experiences). Furthermore, we particularly welcome contributions that suggest directions (even if intentionally idealistic) for future academia-policy interactions. Examples of relevant energy-related themes include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n Whilst it is by no means required, we are open to alternative ways of writing the pieces (that e.g. facilitate greater reflexivity or accessibility), and thus prospective authors should not necessarily feel obliged to structure their pieces in conventional academic ways (e.g. author teams could write autobiographic reflections, stories representing future visions, conversational exchanges between idealised fictious individuals, etc.). Note also that discussions are underway with prospective publishers about the Think Piece Collection being published as an open access edited book. Forewords are additionally being negotiated with high-profile individuals within the EU (energy) policymaking community.<\/p>\n<\/div> List of all abstracts and academic groups involved.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\n \nAuthors<\/th>\n \u00a0Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n \nBridge, G., Barca, S., Ozkaynak, B., Turhan, E. Value<\/td>\n Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n \nMiddlemiss, L., Straver, K., Pellicer-Sifres, V.,Gillard, R.<\/td>\n Connecting the lived experience with energy poverty management: a new governance paradigm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n \nKerr, S., Watts, L., Brennan, R., Wright, G., Howell, R., Wynne, B.<\/td>\n Shaping Blue Growth: Opportunities for social studies of marine energy to shape energy policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n \nGenus, A., Fahy, F., Laakso, S., Iskandarova, M., Goggins, G.<\/td>\n Everyday Imaginaries and Everyday Practices:
\nLearning from \u2018ENERGISE\u2019 about the Integration of Social Science with the EU Energy Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n\n \nWesseling, J., Turnheim, B., Binder, C.R., Rohracher, H., Truffler, B., van Vuuren, D.<\/td>\n Challenges ahead: Understanding, assessing, and anticipating foreseeable societal tensions to support low-carbon transitions in European energy systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n \nSilvast, A., Bolton, R., Lagendijk, V., Dr Kacper Szulecki. K.<\/td>\n Crossing borders: SSH perspectives on European electricity integration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n \nHiteva, R., Weijnen, M., Ives, M.<\/td>\n In search of the energy nexus: technoeconomic modelling, ethnographies and social interactions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n \nSusan Bright, Juliette S\u00e9n\u00e9chal, Magdalena Habdas, Vincent Sagaert, David Weatherall,Tina Fawcett, Dr. Frankie McCarthy, Sandra
\nPassinhas<\/td>\nBuilding Governance and energy efficiency: Mapping the inter-disciplinary challenge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n \nDarby, S., Higginson, S., O\u2019Dwyer, C., Andrade-Cabrera, C., Topouzi, M., Finn. D.<\/td>\n Can thermal comfort be flexible? A sociotechnical question<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n \n Aberg, A., Hoffken, J., I., Lidstrom, S.<\/td>\n Mind the gap: energy poverty and climatejustice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n