Theme Lead & Project Researcher
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Dr Mari Martiskainen is a social scientist with a specific interest in the transition to a more fair, clean and sustainable energy world. Her research centres around energy policy, with specific focus on the issues of developing low energy housing, addressing energy poverty and promoting renewable energy.
Dr Martiskainen has worked with a range of conceptual approaches, including sustainability transitions, grassroots innovation, innovation intermediation, user innovation, and energy justice. Dr Martiskainen has authored several articles in journals such as Energy Research & Social Science; Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions; Environment and Planning A; Journal of Cleaner Production; Local Environment; and Research Policy. She has written book chapters, conference proceedings and invited blog posts. She is a reviewer for several international journals. Dr Martiskainen presents her research regularly to a range of audiences, including international conferences.
Digital Society
Fuel and transport poverty in the UK’s energy transition (FAIR)
Publications
- Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty
- Public support for decarbonisation policies: Between self-interest and social need for alleviating energy and transport poverty in the United Kingdom
- Policy prescriptions to address energy and transport poverty in the United Kingdom
- The diversity penalty: Domestic energy injustice and ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom
- Energy justice in the era of green transitions
- A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions
- Mixed feelings: A review and research agenda for emotions in sustainability transitions
- Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north
- What is the state of the art in energy and transport poverty metrics? A critical and comprehensive review
- Controllable, frightening, or fun? Exploring the gendered dynamics of smart home technology preferences in the United Kingdom
- Knowledge, energy sustainability, and vulnerability in the demographics of smart home technology diffusion
- Humanizing heat as a service: Cost, creature comforts and the diversity of smart heating practices in the United Kingdom
- New dimensions of vulnerability to energy and transport poverty
- House of Commons BEIS Select Committee inquiry – decarbonising heat in homes
- From thermal comfort to conflict: The contested control and usage of domestic smart heating in the United Kingdom
- Testing smarter control and feedback with users: Time, temperature and space in household heating preferences and practices in a Living Laboratory
- Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era
- Vulnerability to fuel and transport poverty
- Hot transformations: Governing rapid and deep household heating transitions in China, Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom
- Consultation on the Fuel Poverty Strategy for England
- Transitions in energy efficiency and demand
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