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1217
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Overview

Elizabeth Shove is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their recent research contributions span topics related to energy, sustainability, health, and social practices. The work explores complex interactions between infrastructures, societal norms, and environmental concerns, emphasizing areas such as renewable energy, public health, and urban development.

Shove's notable recent papers include:

  • Conceptualising flexibility: Challenging representations of time and society in the energy sector, 2020, published in Time & Society
  • Time to rethink energy research, 2020, published in Nature Energy
  • Obese societies: Reconceptualising the challenge for public health, 2021, published in Sociology of Health & Illness
  • How Infrastructures and Practices Shape Each Other: Aggregation, Integration and the Introduction of Gas Central Heating, 2022, published in Sociological Research Online
  • Conceptualising urban density, energy demand and social practice, 2021, published in Buildings and Cities

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as Stanley Blue, Peter Forman, Michael P. Kelly, Jenny Rinkinen, and Jana John, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement across social sciences and energy research.

Shove's research is often featured in journals that focus on the social dimensions of energy, health, and society. Key publication venues include:

  • Time & Society
  • Nature Energy
  • Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Sociological Research Online
  • Buildings and Cities

Their work contributes to several subfields of study including:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • General Health Professions
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Genetics
  • Geography, Planning and Development

Primary research topics include:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Physics and Engineering Research Articles
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Energy Efficiency and Management
  • Obesity and Health Practices

This profile summarizes Elizabeth Shove's multidisciplinary contributions to understanding energy systems, societal behavior, and health-related challenges within the context of environmental sustainability and infrastructure development.

Best Publications

  • The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes

    Elizabeth Shove;Mika Pantzar;Matthew Watson

  • Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality

    Elizabeth Shove

  • Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change:

    Elizabeth Shove

  • Consumers, Producers and Practices: Understanding the Invention and Reinvention of Nordic Walking

    Elizabeth Shove;Mika Pantzar

  • Caution! Transitions Ahead: Politics, Practice, and Sustainable Transition Management:

    Elizabeth Shove;Gordon Walker

  • Governing transitions in the sustainability of everyday life

    Elizabeth Shove;Gordon Walker

  • The Design of Everyday Life

    Elizabeth Shove

  • Converging Conventions of Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience

    Elizabeth Shove

  • Social exclusion, mobility and access.

    Noel Cass;Elizabeth Shove;John Urry

  • What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand:

    Elizabeth Shove;Gordon Walker

  • Debating the future of comfort: environmental sustainability, energy consumption and the indoor environment

    Heather Chappells;Elizabeth Shove

  • Theories of practice and public health: understanding (un)healthy practices

    Stanley Blue;Elizabeth Shove;Chris Carmona;Michael P. Kelly

  • Product, Competence, Project and Practice DIY and the dynamics of craft consumption

    Matthew Watson;Elizabeth Shove

  • The Sociology of Energy, Buildings and the Environment: Constructing Knowledge, Designing Practice

    Simon Guy;Elizabeth Shove

  • Interventions in practice: re-framing policy approaches to consumer behaviour

    Nicola Spurling;Andrew McMeekin;Elizabeth Shove;Dale Southerton

  • Defrosting the Freezer: From Novelty to Convenience: A Narrative of Normalization

    Elizabeth Shove;Dale Southerton

  • Gaps, barriers and conceptual chasms: theories of technology transfer and energy in buildings

    Elizabeth Shove

  • The dynamics of social practice

    Elizabeth Shove

  • Conceptualizing connections Energy demand, infrastructures and social practices

    Elizabeth Shove;Matt Watson;Nicola Spurling

  • Time, consumption and everyday life: practice, materiality and culture

    Elizabeth Shove;Frank Trentmann;Richard R. Wilk

  • Infrastructures of Consumption: Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

    B.J.M. van Vliet;H. Chappels;E. Shove

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon Walker
Gordon Walker Lancaster University
John Urry
John Urry Lancaster University
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Luis Araujo
Luis Araujo University of Manchester
Alan Warde
Alan Warde University of Manchester
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Nicholas Frank Pidgeon
Nicholas Frank Pidgeon Cardiff University
Rosemary Deem
Rosemary Deem Royal Holloway University of London
Gert Spaargaren
Gert Spaargaren Wageningen University & Research
Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen University of Oxford

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