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    • Challenging practices: experiences from community and individual living lab approaches 

      Matschoss, Kaisa; Fahy, Frances; Rau, Henrike; Backhaus, Julia; Goggins, Gary; Grealis, Eoin; Heiskanen, Eva; Kajoskoskia, Tuija; Laakso, Senja; Apajalahti, Eeva-Lotta; Genus, Audley; Godin, Laurence; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Musch, Annika-Kathrin; Sahakian, Marlyne; Scholl, Christian; Vadovics, Edina; Vasseur, Veronique (Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-20)
      In this article, we examine a change initiative designed to involve households in testing ways to transform two everyday practices heating and doing laundry. The research design included an examination of the challenges ...
    • Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries 

      Sahakian, Marlyne; Rau, Henrike; Grealis, Eoin; Godin, Laurence; Wallenborn, Grégoire; Backhaus, Julia; Friis, Freja; Genus, Audley T.; Goggins, Gary; Heaslip, Eimear; Heiskanen, Eva; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Jensen, Charlotte Louise; Laakso, Senja; Musch, Annika-Katrin; Scholl, Christian; Vadovics, Edina; Vadovics, Kristof; Vasseur, Véronique; Fahy, Frances (Elsevier, 2021-02-10)
      ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 ...
    • Towards a practice-theoretical classification of sustainable energy consumption initiatives: Insights from social scientific energy research in 30 European countries 

      Jensen, Charlotte Louise; Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances; Grealis, Eoin; Vadovics, Edina; Genus, Audley; Rau, Henrike (Elsevier, 2018-07-03)
      Reducing residential energy use and related CO2 emissions across society requires approaches that understand energy demand as dependent on the performance of a range of interconnected social practices, which includes aspects ...