Date: Monday, 24 June 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Session code 2AV.1
Monitoring and methods in social assessments in bioenergy and bioeconomy
Engendering’ Energy and Innovation Research for Equitable and Just Energy Transitions
Short Introductive summary
This paper reports on a research activity conducted within the remit of the EU Horizon 2020 project gEneSys, which entailed identifying gender ‘blindness’ in each of the 100 priority research questions formulated by the Horizon 2020 Energy SHIFTS project for each of four energy strands (Renewable Energy, Smart Consumption, Energy Efficiency, and Transport Mobility). gEneSys has adopted the Gendered Innovations Approach (GIA, after GI, 20024) to explore how it may support research on energy transition by placing gender issues at the forefront of energy transition processes. The GIA comprises methodologies designed to enable scientists and engineers to conduct sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in their research. Only 11 out of the 400 questions explicitly contained references to gender. Thus, gEneSys examined each of the remaining Energy-SHIFTS priority research questions to consider whether it should incorporate a gender dimension and identify which of the GIA methodologies most aptly and meaningfully could enable such incorporation. In addition, a published research article was identified to demonstrate the application of the relevant GIA methodologies.
Presenter
Yara EVANS
Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy
Presenter's biography
I am Human Geographer with specialisms in urban development, conflicts over natural protected aereas, international migration, political ecology, and socioeconomic assessment of projects and development inititives on local communities and the social dimensions of the bioeconomy.
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Co-authors:
Y. Evans, Imperial College London, UNITED KINGDOM
Session reference: 2AV.1.11