Dr Hannah Charles
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Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Residential Air-conditioning Demand Futures (RADFutures) project
Office
106Building location
Chancellor's buildingAreas of interest
- Sociotechnical energy systems- Energy governance
- Housing governance
- Net zero transformations
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation in housing
Research centres and groups
Research projects
RADFutures – EDRC - https://www.edrc.ac.uk/research/projects/residential-air-conditioning-demand-futures-radfutures/Background
One paragraph capturing your broad level research/teaching expertise. Capture your expertise, broad interest and application of research (or highlights on teaching).As the Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Residential Air-conditioning Demand Futures (RADFutures) project, my role is to explore social and cultural factors that contribute to the uptake of air-conditioning within UK housing. The project is looking at the relationship between air-conditioning behaviours, summer energy consumption and the impact this can have on meeting net zero goals. Within the RADFutures team, we are developing a socio-technical approach to explore factors that contribute to air-conditioning behaviours in homes, using qualitative interviews and quantitative analysis of housing and energy data. The RADFutures project is part of the EDRC Futures theme and explores how demand for air-conditioning is changing over time.
Before starting at the 黑料不打烊, I carried out a PhD at the University of Manchester. This was a CASE studentship (partnered with a housing provider) that explored social housing retrofit, and how retrofitting housing can align with the low carbon transformation needed to meet net zero goals. My work focuses on issues of energy justice, housing governance, and the politics of decarbonisation.
Academic qualifications
PhD, Human Geography, University of Manchester, 2025MSc. Environmental Governance, University of Manchester, 2019
BA(Hons), Environmental Management, University of Manchester, 2018
Websites/blogs
Orcid - https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0337-2996