The LCEDN team is delighted to welcome Harry Jia as a Summer Research Student over the next 10 weeks (funded by an EPSRC Vacation Research Bursary). He will contribute to several ongoing research projects. Harry has written the blog post below to introduce himself and outline what he hopes to achieve.

I am very excited to begin my role with the EPSRC vacation bursary and to assist with several funded projects throughout my 10-week stay at Loughborough University. My...

The DFID-Funded Energy and Econopmic Growth programme have recently announced a call for Research proposals for work in Ethiopia.

Widening energy access and securing reliable energy services is fundamental to the Government of Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II) to transform the country into a major manufacturing hub, and to address some of the intractable development and poverty challenges the country faces.

Following consultations with key government...

In this blog, PhD students Hannah Mottram (University of Sheffield) and Peter Thomas (Bristol University), provide highlights of their participation in the 2018 PAUWES Research 2 Practice Forum held from 16 to 18 April 2018 in Tlemcen, Algeria.

Participants from over 40 countries discussed the latest research in the nexus of energy, water and climate change with the overall objective of ensuring the aims of Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals are...

We are delighted to publish the second blog written by Mariana Cover, who is undertaking a three month placement with Better Solar supporting the development of an international network working to support social and environmental justice across global solar supply chains. The placement is funded by the LCEDN and is based at the University of Edinburgh.

Mariana Cover

Building a Solar Network

Renewable energies have been promoted as one of the...

In this blog, Farah N. Samuel, an MSc student of the Durham Energy Institute (pictured right), provides highlights from her participation in the 5th International Conference on Developments in Renewable Energy Technology 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Travelling to Nepal was not a priority on my travel list this year, however, as a representative of Durham University, I was privileged to attend two conferences in Nepal, between March 28-31, 2018 on gender and energy and...