Section: Staff Profiles
Janette Webb
- Name
- Professor Janette Webb
- Organisation
- Institute of Governance, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- S2 Chisholm House High School Yards Edinburgh UK EH1 1LZ
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 650 3987
- jan.webb@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Sustainability,city communities,energy politics,sociology of markets,economic sociology,local energy governance and organisation (LEGO)
- URL
- http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/webb_janette
Office Hours
9.00-11.00 Mondays during Semester
Research Interests
My research, funded by the RC-UK Energy Programme, is about sustainable energy and communities. It focuses on urban energy governance and business organisation, and the connection between city-scale low carbon energy projects, and global energy and financial markets. As a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh multi-disciplinary Inquiry: Facing Up To Climate Change I examined the role of civil society in sustainable use of resources. I have also held research funding from ESRC, DTI, EOC, British Council and HE Funding Councils and have published in sociology, psychology and management studies journals.
Recent invited presentations include Climate Change is about Society: How Will We Adapt?, Adaptation Scotland Conference, June 2011; Organising District Heating, Edinburgh Community Energy Cooperative Conference, October, 2011; Facing Up To Climate Change, Scottish National Rural Network, October 2011; Potential for Action at City Scale: Low Carbon Energy, Scottish Council for Development and Industry, October 2011; Collaboration to Improve Digital Participation in Low Carbon Economy, GovCamp Scotland, November 2011; Implications of the Renewable Heat Incentive for District Heating in the UK, Scotland's 2020 Climate Group and University of Strathclyde January 2012; Theory into Practice: Organising District Heating, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency/SNIFFER Workshop on Sustainable Cities, February 2012; Multi-level Governance of Socio-Technical Innovation: District Heating in the UK, Jean Monnet International Workshop: The Governance of Innovation and Socio-Technical Systems in Europe: New Trends, New Challenge, Copenhagen Business School, March 2012.
I am a Member of the Scottish Government Expert Commission on District Heating, and a Trustee of SNIFFER, an environmental charity. I have recently served as Non-Executive Director of the Board of NHS Health Scotland (2003-2011) and am a founder member of the NHS Scotland network for Sustainability, Health and Equity. I was Vice-Chair of the Board of the Scottish Low Pay Unit and Partner in a European Commission Project on 'Mainstreaming Sex Equality in Regional and Local Government', coordinated from the Comunidad de Madrid.
Recent Publications
Recent Books
(2006) Organisations, Identities and the Self, Palgrave. publisher's note and sample chapter
(2002) The Changing Politics of Gender Equality, edited with E.Breitenbach, A.Brown and F.Mackay. Palgrave. publisher's note and sample chapter
Recent Articles
(2012) Climate change and society: the chimera of behavior change technologies. Sociology, 46: 109-125
(2011) (with D. Sugden, A. Werrity, E. Caldwell, C. Campbell, A. Dlugolecki, N. Hanley and A. Kerr) Facing Up To Climate Change: Breaking the Barriers to a Low Carbon Scotland. Royal Society of Edinburgh.
(2011) Making climate change governable: the case of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment and adaptation planning. Science and Public Policy, 38
(2010) Society Matters! Changing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour in Scotland. Scottish Affairs, 71:30-62 [Download PDF - 350kb].
(2009) Gender and occupation in market economies: change and restructuring since the 1980s, Social Politics, 16: 82-110; doi:10.1093/sp/jxp003
(2009) 'Gender and the post-industrial shift', J. Scott, R. Crompton and C. Lyonette (eds) Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New barriers and continuing constraints, Edward Elgar.
(2007) Seduced or sceptical consumers? Organised action and the case of fair trade coffee, Sociological Research Online. 12 (3) http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/3/5.html
(2004) Organisations, self-identities and the new economy, Sociology, 38: 719-738. pdf file
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) First Class, Psychology, University of Hull
- PhD Social Psychology, University of Nottingham
Video Interview
Topics interested in supervising
I welcome enquiries about supervision of research on societal transitions to sustainable energy, district heating, local energy governance and organisation (LEGO), and the sociology of climate change. I am currently supervising projects on local energy governance, waste recycling, carbon trading, sociology of climate science, ethical consumption, the organisation of product markets, and social mobility of international graduates.
If you are interested in being supervised by Janette Webb, please see the links below for more information:
This page was published on 5 March 2012