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The Centre would like to welcome our newest PhD student, Salma Bakr. Salma comes from Alexandria, Egypt and is here on a University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship. While at the Centre, she will be working in alignment with the Green Grid Project, focusing on residential energy management approaches.

The Centre would like to welcome PhD student Marisia Silva, who is visiting from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP, São Paulo State University) in Brazil. Marisia is an engineer of agronomy and is currently working on her PhD on non-renewable energy use...Read More

The Centre's Christopher Rosin will be giving a seminar on climate change titled “Questioning climate change: denial and identity among New Zealand pastoral farmers”. The seminar is being run by the Otago Climate Change Network and will be held on Thursday, May 9, at the Centre for Inno...Read More

New staff member Michelle Scott will be putting her psychology background to good use as a researcher for the Energy Cultures II project. Michelle, who is from Perth, Scotland, has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Dundee (Scotland), an MSc in Psychological Research from the University of ...Read More

In their paper Giving Voice to the ‘Silent Majority’: exploring the opinions and motivations of people who do not make submissions, Centre for Sustainability Director Janet Stephenson and Rob Lawson (Department of Marketing) examine the existence of a “silent majority’ with p...Read More