Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | RES-332-25-0007 | |
| Title | Sustainable domestic technologies: changing practice, technology & convention | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial) 25%; Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts) 75%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour) 25%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance) 25%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy) 50%; |
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| Principal Investigator |
Dr (Dale ) Southerton No email address given University of Manchester |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | ESRC | |
| Start Date | 01 January 2003 | |
| End Date | 31 December 2004 | |
| Duration | 24 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £117,204 | |
| Industrial Sectors | No relevance to Underpinning Sectors | |
| Region | North West | |
| Programme | ESRC Energy | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Dr (Dale ) Southerton , University of Manchester (99.998%) |
| Other Investigator | Professor A Warde , Social Sciences, University of Manchester (0.001%) Professor E (Elizabeth ) Shove , Sociology, Lancaster University (0.001%) |
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| Web Site | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=RES-332-25-0007 |
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| Objectives | Objectives not supplied | |
| Abstract | The domestic sphere accounts for almost a third of UK final energy consumption. Much of this can be attributed to domestic technologies. Such technologies have brought radical, but typically invisible, change at the level of ordinary practice (e.g. the frequency of domestic laundry has increased five fold). This research investigates the process whereby domestic technologies are appropriated intosocial practices, fuelling escalating expectations and standards of service, while binding users into extensive complexes of environmentally problematic systems of provisioning. It explores theoretical approaches which emphasise the socio-structural and socio-technical conditions of choice. This requires a focus on the process between ‘demand’ and ‘final consumption’ - theprocess through which producers anticipate ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ and through which people appropriate technologies into daily social practice. Kitchens and bathrooms, energy intensive and functional spaces, are taken as key arenas in which to investigate the co-evolution of socio-technical environments and changing packages of convention and practice. We begin with an historical analysis of the technological development of these domestic spaces, paying particular attention to four key appliances. This is followed by interviews with producers and consumers designed to investigate the anticipated and actual dynamics of socio-technical change in the kitchen and the bathroom | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 10/11/09 | |
