The following are members of the FPRN committee and trustees of the charity.
Dr Graeme Sherriff (Chair)
Graeme is Reader in Environment and Society at University of Salford and co-director of the Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) in the School of Health and Society. He focuses on the intersection of environmental sustainability and social justice, in the fields of energy and mobility in particular. How we enable people to be warm (or cool) at home in a way that is compatible with tackling climate change is central to this, and fuel poverty has been central to his research since 2013.
Dr Trivess Moore (Co-chair)
Trivess is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). His research focuses on the intersection between technical performance, social impact and policy in relation to how housing, households and how the housing sector will transition to a low carbon future. Fuel poverty is an increasing social and economic issue in Australia and frames many of Trivess’ current research projects including an Australian Research Council Linkage project looking at how to upscale housing retrofit and improve energy outcomes.
William Baker
William has worked on fuel poverty issues at both the local and national levels for over 30 years: as a researcher, policy officer and campaigner. He believes that good quality evidence, making the link with wider inequalities and effective campaigns, are essential for ending this pernicious problem.
Dr Danielle Butler
Danielle is a Senior Research and Policy Officer at National Energy Action and an Academic Advisor to the International Energy Agency’s Task 24 on engaging hard to reach energy users. Danielle’s research has primarily focused on the lived experience of fuel poverty among ‘at risk’ groups, considering key factors such as age and rurality. She is particularly interested in the role of social relations and the social process of energy-related advice and support.
Dr Jenny Brierley
Working in housing associations in Yorkshire for several decades, inspired her passion for making homes low-energy in use, to tackle fuel poverty as well as cut carbon emissions. Jenny is now researching, at Sheffield University, how living in, and maintaining, low-energy homes can ensure not just low heating costs but healthy indoor air as well.
Dr Andréanne Doyon
Andréanne is an Assistant Professor, and the Director of the Planning Program at Simon Fraser University. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a MA (Planning) from the University of British Columbia. Andréanne’s research fits within the fields of governance and planning, and sustainability transitions (socio- technical) and transformations (socio-ecological). She has a relatively wide breath of topics and themes she engages with, including resilience, climate change, nature-based solutions, housing, energy, equity and justice, and research practice. In addition to scholarly research. Andréanne works with practitioners and organizations to advance planning, equity, and climate change responses.
Marilyn Smith
Marilyn is Executive Director of The Energy Action Project (EnAct) a science communications specialist with ~20 years’ experience in presenting news and information to non-scientific audiences (e.g. policy makers, advocacy groups, the general public) via various media. For the past decade, she has focused primarily on energy and energy poverty, including a stint as Chief Editor of the International Energy Agency (2009-12).
As actors around the world take up the challenge of achieving universal access to sustainable, affordable energy (Sustainable Development Goal 7), Marilyn’s mantra is that it is time for everyone to ‘get’ energy. She founded EnAct to foster cross-sector collaboration in tackling energy poverty, while also helping public audiences better understand this issue and energy more broadly. EnAct distils key elements of lengthy reports into content that connects the dots across academic research, policy initiatives, civil society and social impact projects, and financial schemes. COLD@HOME reports on energy poverty in the EU and North America.
Nicola Willand
Nicola is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University, Australia. As a housing researcher with a background in architecture, Nicola works at the intersection of the social, health and building sciences. Her research focuses on how housing and health outcomes are shaped by the interrelations of dwelling quality and design, householder practices and their structural, geographical and social contexts.