Project researcher
Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Laurence joined SPRU as a research fellow in 2018. He currently splits his time between the NERC and ESRC funded project ‘Fracking’, Framing and Effective Participation (FFEfP) and a project on ‘The energy and climate impacts of 5G’ as part of the CREDS Digital Society theme.
More broadly, he is interested in sociotechnical controversies; the planning and regulatory oversight of shale development; public engagement with and participation on science, technology and innovation; and the intersection between science and technology studies (STS) and democratic theory.
Digital Society
Publications
- Koomey’s law forevermore? A document analysis of the production and circulation of the promise of ‘green 5G’
- Patchy coverage: New CREDS study finds a number of ‘blackspots’ in the publicly available evidence base on the energy use impacts of 5G
- The energy use implications of 5G: Reviewing whole network operational energy, embodied energy, and indirect effects
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