Energy poverty policy sessions in Brussels

Harriet Thomson reports back on two high-level energy poverty events she took part in recently in Brussels.

Report on Greater Manchester fuel poverty workshop

Neil Simcock recently attended a workshop focussed on the development of a fuel poverty strategy for Greater Manchester.

The EU is key to research excellence in the UK

CURE currently hosts 4 large EU-funded research projects

Public outreach on energy poverty in Europe

EVALUATE researcher Harriet Thomson established the EU Fuel Poverty Network in 2011, and since then it has grown to be one of the leading online portals for fuel poverty. Read more about the latest developments here.

Journal Special Issue on fuel poverty

CURE researchers contributed papers on fuel poverty and energy vulnerability to a Special Issue of People, Place and Policy.

CURE goes to Norway

Joe Williams reports on a recent workshop in Bergen, Norway, hosted by the SpaceLab team and attended by a group of energy and urban climate researchers from Manchester.

EVALUATE and COMBI researchers respond to energy efficiency call for evidence

CURE researchers recently responded to a call for evidence on domestic energy efficiency.

Collaborative research in action at the ESRC Festival of Social Science

Read more about a recent workshop on ‘The University Living Lab & Collaborative Research’

What is the state of the Earth’s environment?

Our research associate Nora Mzavanadze is part of the authors’ team for the 6th Global Enviroment Oulook (GEO-6) report – a global state of the environment report led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She is back from the authors’ meeting at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and in this blog post she describes the raison d’être of such a report, explains the GEO process, summarizes the conclusions of the GEO-5 report and discusses the the novelties of the GEO-6 report.

Evening seminar on ‘Approaching Resilience’

CURE is hosting an evening seminar with Peter Rogers from Macquarie University and Sören Becker from the Lebniz Institute for Regional Planning.