UKRI award The University of Manchester 拢1.7m to investigate gendered energy inequalities
GENERATE (Gender and Precarity at the Energy Frontier) will assess global challenges around inequitable access to energy
The 拢1.7m award will fund an ambitious 5-year programme, led by Dr Saska Petrova, Professor in Human Geography at The University of Manchester. GENERATE aims to offer original insights into the social, spatial, and political inequalities that drive energy-related injustices, and the struggles linked to the growth of new low-carbon energy production in disadvantaged regions and communities.
Supported by UK Research and Innovation via the Horizon Europe guarantee scheme, GENERATE is a European Research Council Consolidator grant, and will involve research across six countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) in Southeast Europe.
The project will undertake in-depth case studies involving range of rural and urban locations that have experienced rapid investment in renewable energy and housing retrofits. The knowledge gained from this region will be extended and applied globally, through a series of collaborations with practitioner and academic organisations in Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.
Given the highly topical nature of just energy transitions in Europe and the world 鈥� not the least due to the rising imperatives of climate change and social inequality 鈥� we hope that the project will results in fresh policy-relevant insights relevant to the work of global development agencies, energy companies, government bodies and clean energy advocacy groups.