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Research project

Sustainable Practices Research Group

Research groups:

Energy and Climate Change Group
Lead researcher:

Dr Ben Anderson
Research funder:

ESRC
Status:

Not active

Project overview

This project sought to understand how we might transition towards sustainable practices in the water and food sectors. Our contribution focused on implementing and analysing a mixed-methods approach to understanding domestic water use.

Staff

Lead researcher

Doctor Ben Anderson

Dr Ben Anderson

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

‘big’ data-driven analysis of habitual energy and water consumption
the impacts of interventions or natural socio-technical change on patterns of demand
the linkage of 'appliance' monitoring with traditional forms of social science data in support of socio-technical innovation

Email: b.anderson@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Energy and Climate Change Group

The research group seeks engineering solutions for reliable, affordable and sustainable energy stemming from renewable resources.

Research outputs

Method as intervention

Alison Browne,

Will Medd,

Ben Anderson,

& Martin Pullinger

, 2014

DOI: 10.4324/9781315816494

Type: bookChapter

Distributed demand and the sociology of water efficiency

A. Browne,

W. Medd,

M. Pullinger,

& B. Anderson

, 2014

DOI: 10.1002/9781118456613.ch5

Type: bookChapter

Patterns of practice: a reflection on the development of quantitative methodologies reflecting everyday life related to water demand and consumption in the United Kingdom

A. Browne,

M. Pullinger,

W. Medd,

& B. Anderson

, 2014 , International Journal of Social Research Methodology , 17 (1)

DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2014.854012

Type: article

Erratum to: Developing Novel Approaches to Tracking Domestic Water Demand Under Uncertainty-A Reflection on the "Up Scaling" of Social Science Approaches in the United Kingdom (Water Resour Manage, 10.1007/s11269-012-0117-y)

Alison L. Browne,

Will Medd,

& Ben Anderson

, 2013 , Water Resources Management , 27 (4) , 1037--1038

DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0210-2

Type: letterEditorial

The performance of practice: an alternative approach to attitudinal and behavioural ‘customer segmentation’ for the UK water industry

A. Browne,

M. Pullinger,

B. Anderson,

& W. Medd

, 2013

Type: workingPaper

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