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I am a Research Associate at Cardiff University, working within the Understanding Risk Research Group. Collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Bath and Nottingham Trent, as well as the Green Alliance.
I currently work on the CIE-MAP project: Opportunities and barriers to achieving transitions in UK energy and materials use: The role of publics, society and decision-makers. Prior to this I completed my PhD within the Understanding Risk Research Group, entitled: “Exploring discourses of decarbonisation: The social construction of low carbon housing”.
Cyhoeddiadau
2020
- Groves, C.et al. 2020. ‘The bills are a brick wall’: narratives of energy vulnerability, poverty and adaptation in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science
- Capstick, S.et al. 2020. Climate change citizens' assemblies: CAST briefing paper 03. CAST Briefing Paper.
2019
- Groves, C.et al. 2019. Better energy futures: Developing a framework for addressing fuel poverty poverty. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2018
- Cherry, C.et al. 2018. Public acceptance of resource-efficiency strategies to mitigate climate change. Nature Climate Change 8, pp. 1007-1012. (10.1038/s41558-018-0298-3)
- Peake, L.et al. 2018. By popular demand: what people want from a resource efficient economy. London: Green Alliance. Available at: https://www.green-alliance.org.uk/by_popular_demand.php
- Cherry, C. and Pidgeon, N. 2018. Is sharing the solution? Exploring public acceptability of the sharing economy. Journal of Cleaner Production 195, pp. 939-948. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.278)
- Cherry, C. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2018. Why is ownership an issue? Exploring factors that determine public acceptance of product-service systems. Sustainability 10(7), article number: 2289. (10.3390/su10072289)
- Shirani, F.et al. 2018. UK smart living demonstrator (better energy futures) – research report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2017
- Cherry, C.et al. 2017. Homes as machines: Exploring expert and public imaginaries of low carbon housing futures in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 23, pp. 36-45. (10.1016/j.erss.2016.10.011)
2015
- Cherry, C.et al. 2015. Media discourses of low carbon housing: The marginalisation of social and behavioural dimensions within the British broadsheet press. Public Understanding of Science 24(3), pp. 302-310. (10.1177/0963662513512442)
- Cherry, C. 2015. Exploring discourses of decarbonisation: the social construction of low carbon housing. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Bath and Nottingham Trent, as well as the Green Alliance, I currently work on the CIE-MAP project: Opportunities and barriers to achieving transitions in UK energy and materials use: The role of publics, society and decision-makers. To achieve a low carbon society, a step change in reducing the energy expended by UK industry is needed, and can only come about if we are able to identify new ways of designing, using, and delivering products, materials and services. While traditional research on mitigation of carbon emissions has focused on direct consumption of energy, the role that materials and products might play is less well studied. The project aims to conduct a programme of novel empirical research into public perspectives on and acceptability of a range of different demand reduction strategies, designed to reduce the energy used in industry, materials and products.
Despite a background in natural science (BSc Environmental Science and MSc Climate Change), prior to this position I completed my PhD research, entitled “Exploring discourses of decarbonisation: The social construction of low carbon housing” with the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. My thesis explored the discourses surrounding low carbon housing as they exist within different sectors of society – policy, media, expert and public - employing an interpretive qualitative methodology, and utilising discourse and thematic analysis to explore low carbon housing discourse. Investigating the assumptions surrounding the incentives and mechanisms for change embedded within the discourses, the thesis highlights the socially constructed nature of low carbon housing, demonstrating the important role that environmental and everyday values play in public understandings of what is often considered to be a purely technological entity. This alternative understanding of low carbon housing within the public sphere opens up a new discursive space and may provide a new direction from which to approach the issue of reducing carbon emissions.
Funding
Our current research is funded by the Research Council’s Energy Programme, CIE-MAP forms one of six centres focuses on reducing energy demand in the UK.
My PhD research was funded Cardiff University joint scholarship: Department of Psychology and Department of Engineering.