All Outputs (5)

Cost, context, or convenience? Exploring the social acceptance of demand response in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Naghiyev, E., Shipman, R., Goulden, M., Gillott, M., & Spence, A. (2022). Cost, context, or convenience? Exploring the social acceptance of demand response in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 87, Article 102469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102469

The energy sector, and buildings in particular, are one of the main contributors to climate change. Demand-Side Management (DSM) has the potential to realise energy savings on the demand as well as the supply side. However, the domestic sector still... Read More about Cost, context, or convenience? Exploring the social acceptance of demand response in the United Kingdom.

The digital workplace and its dark side: An integrative review (2021)
Journal Article
Marsh, E., Vallejos, E. P., & Spence, A. (2022). The digital workplace and its dark side: An integrative review. Computers in Human Behavior, 128, Article 107118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107118

An intensification of digital working driven by Covid-19 has brought into sharp focus both the beneficial nature of digital workplace technologies and their potential dark side. Research has burgeoned in this area in recent years, but an integrated v... Read More about The digital workplace and its dark side: An integrative review.

Sustainability following adversity: Power outage experiences are related to greater energy saving intentions in the United Kingdom and Mexico (2021)
Journal Article
Spence, A., Leygue, C., & Ortega Andeane, P. (2021). Sustainability following adversity: Power outage experiences are related to greater energy saving intentions in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Energy Research and Social Science, 79, Article 102143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102143

Concerns about climate change and energy security, and related behaviour may be impacted by experiences such as flooding and power outages and we consider that impacts may be different for individual and social actions. Our first study, using online... Read More about Sustainability following adversity: Power outage experiences are related to greater energy saving intentions in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Big Changes Start With Small Talk: Twitter and Climate Change in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Gaytan Camarillo, M., Ferguson, E., Ljevar, V., & Spence, A. (2021). Big Changes Start With Small Talk: Twitter and Climate Change in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661395

Behavioural scientists have been studying public perceptions to understand how and why people behave the way they do towards climate change. In recent times, enormous changes to behaviour and people’s interactions have been brought about by the world... Read More about Big Changes Start With Small Talk: Twitter and Climate Change in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic.

Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Spence, A., Leygue, C., Wickes, L., Withers, L., Goulden, M., & Wardman, J. K. (2021). Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 75, Article 102021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102021

Smart energy technologies (SETs) are being developed around the world to support using energy more efficiently and to smooth our consumption over time, helping us to meet our carbon reduction targets. Notably, SETs will only be effective with support... Read More about Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom.