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Dr Faye Wade
Dr Faye Wade is a ClimateXChange Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research applies social science to understand the policy makers, public and private sector organisations, and building professionals responsible for creating a more sustainable built environment.
Faye is particularly interested in the role of research for informing policy and industry practices. Her current project is an evaluation of the organisation and delivery of the Energy Efficient Scotland programme. This is the Scottish Government's flagship scheme for retrofitting buildings across all sectors in Scotland.
Faye's other research has focussed on transformative digital technologies for changing construction practices, and the role of heating engineers and the heating industry in shaping domestic energy consumption.
Latest Commentaries
Professional Ethics in a Climate Crisis
The climate crisis has progressed into a dangerous phase with tragic consequences often counted in numbers of excess deaths, but also by powerful economic impacts of rising food prices, the increased costs of insurance and lending, costly damage to the built environment. Celia Davies, Director of Impact at the UK’s Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Hugh Ellis, Director of Policy at TCPA, consider the responsibilities of professionals in shaping a built environment which is fit not just for today's climate risks but for the dramatic increase in severe and unpredictable weather which is now locked into our climate systems.
Living Labs: Maturity, Impact and the Role of Researchers
Living labs are blossoming more than ever. Their first appearances in academic literature were roughly 25 years ago. Dimitri Schuurman (Ghent University) responds to the recent Buildings & Cities special issue “Living Labs: Agents for Change” and focuses on two important drawbacks that also come with living labs booming in practice as well as in the literature.