Professor Janette Webb
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Janette Webb is a Professor of Sociology of Organisations at the School of Social and Political Science. Her research concerns social studies of energy and climate change.
Professor Webb is co-director of the UK Energy Research Centre; member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council, the Infrastructure Commission for Scotland and UKRI Energy Science Advisory Committee, and adviser to the Industrial Strategy Challenge: Prospering from the Energy Revolution.
COP26 activities
Professor Webb is speaking and and attending a number of events around COP26, and has been attending events in the run-up to COP26, since March 2021:
During COP26
- Online event: Poetry and the Climate Crisis: Scotland and India
Part of the Being Human Festival 2021
11 November 2021
Post-COP26
- Blog: COP26 – can policy makers turn promises into practice in time?
EnergyRev, 29 November 2021
Build up to COP26
- Event: RSE Facing Up to Climate Change: 10 Years On, Energy
Edinburgh, October 2021
- Online conference: RSE and Royal Meteorological Society: Scotland’s Climate Change Science and COP26, Perspectives from social studies of energy and climate change
October 2021
- Conference: Scottish Renewables Annual Heat Conference, Heat in Buildings:
From Strategy to Reality, Realising Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies
Glasgow, September 2021
- Online event: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Smart Local Energy Systems: Unlocking Net Zero, The Way Forward for Local Authorities
July 2021
- Online event: British Academy COP26 Roundtable on Cities and Energy Transitions
Energy and Cities: Social Science Perspectives
July 2021
- Online conference: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Tenth Annual Seminar on Local and Community Energy
Local Energy in the UK: Social Science Perspectives
May 2021
- Online event: University of Edinburgh Business School and British Institute of Energy Economics
COP26: The stepping stones to success for Government and Business?
March 2021
- Online seminar: Oxford University Energy Colloquia
UK devolution and divergence in energy efficiency policies: Scotland and England
March 2021