Theme Lead / Co-Director
University of Oxford
Tina Fawcett is a Senior Researcher and Acting Deputy Leader of the energy research team at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Tina is leading the ‘policy and governance’ theme in the Centre for Research on Energy Demand Solutions. The theme will generate knowledge and develop new approaches for further, faster and more flexible delivery of energy demand reduction.
Tina’s research focuses on energy demand and demand-side policy for households and organisations. She uses a multi-disciplinary approach to understand patterns of energy demand and to identify opportunities for reducing energy use and carbon emissions, and the policies that can deliver these changes.
Her recent and on-going work includes research on SMEs and energy, decision-making in energy systems, the multiple benefits of energy efficiency, EU energy efficiency policy, policy mixes, sufficiency, climate justice and energy, the governance challenges of energy upgrades for buildings in multiple ownership, the role of different professions in delivering low carbon renovation, and renovation of buildings generally. Earlier work has featured research on personal carbon trading, fuel poverty, the role of heat pumps in future heating for the UK and globally, and energy use in the higher education sector.
Policy & Governance
Publications
- Catalysing netzero retrofit: feasibility of an innovative salary sacrifice scheme
- Energy supply/demand policy asymmetry: A meta-narrative review for a systems explanation
- The expected role of individuals in the transition to net zero: policies and pathways facilitating an active role
- The role of energy demand in policymaking for a just transition to net zero: a comparative survey in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany
- Transforming small and medium-sized enterprises to address the climate emergency: The case for values-based engagement
- Energy demand reduction: its importance in meeting climate change targets
- Personal carbon allowances revisited
- Australian non-domestic buildings policy as an international exemplar
- BEIS consultation: Energy-related products
- Residential retrofit in the climate emergency: the role of metrics
- Data-driven unsustainability? An interdisciplinary perspective on governing the environmental impacts of a data-driven society
- Why & how energy efficiency policy should address SMEs
- Policy for energy demand reduction
- What buildings policy might look like if we took climate change seriously
- Growing greener: Creating a new values-based environmental engagement toolkit for SME intermediaries
- Shifting the focus: 7 Policy: delivering further and faster change in energy demand
- Energy sufficiency in policy and practice: the question of needs and wants
- Deep retrofit approaches: managing risks to minimise the energy performance gap
- The time dimension in deep renovation: evidence and analysis from across the EU
- Energy efficiency schemes for small and medium sized businesses: consultation response
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