Dr Tina Fawcett
About
Dr Tina Fawcett is a senior researcher in the Energy Programme at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, and Co-Director of CREDS – the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, a multi-university research partnership, where she leads work on energy policy.
Her research focuses on how and why we use energy, as individuals and organisations, and explores pathways and policies to reduce energy demand and carbon emissions. She has worked on a variety of topics including low energy renovation of homes, EU and UK energy efficiency policies, decision-making around energy, personal carbon allowances and the electrification of heating.
New projects include exploring ideas about sufficiency and energy, climate change education, developing values-based and co-benefits approaches to improving environmental advice for businesses and being a Co-Director of a research network on transforming heating and cooling for the net zero future.
Expertise
- Energy use by households
- UK and EU policy on energy efficiency and energy saving, particularly energy use in buildings. (Note: not on energy use in industry or transport)
- Low energy renovation of buildings
- Personal carbon allowances/trading/rations
- Energy sufficiency
- Energy use and energy policy related to SMEs
Selected publications
- Heat pumps and global residential heating. Proceedings of ECEEE Summer Study, 2015 (Presqu'île de Giens, France). Vol. 1: Foundations of Future Energy Policy, European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Fawcett, T., Eyre, N. and Layberry, R. (2015)
- Shifting the focus: energy demand in a net-zero carbon UK. Policy: delivering further and faster change in energy demand. In, Eyre, N. and Killip, G. (eds.). Fawcett, T., Webb, J., Reiss, S., Hawkey, D., and Mallaburn, P. (CREDS, 2019)
- Energy efficiency obligation schemes: their future in the EU. Fawcett, T., Rosenow, J. and Bertoldi, P. (Energy Efficiency, 2018)
- Residential retrofit in the climate emergency: the role of metrics. Fawcett, T. and Topouzi, M. (Buildings and Cities, 1(1): 475-490. 2020)
- Personal carbon trading: a review of research evidence and real-world experience of a radical idea. Parag, Y. and Fawcett, T. (Energy and Emission Control Technologies, 2014(2): 23-32. 2014)
- Personal carbon trading: A policy ahead of its time? Fawcett, T. (Energy Policy, 38(11): 6868-6876. 2010)
- Energy sufficiency: an introduction. Concept paper for ECEEE (European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy). Darby, S. and Fawcett, T. (2018)
- Why & how energy efficiency policy should address SMEs. Fawcett, T. and Hampton, S. (Energy Policy, 140, May 2020, 111337: 1-6.)
Media experience
Dr Fawcett has some experience of interviews for local and national media.
Recent media work
Languages
English