To manage the production and use of renewable energy to cater for a broad spectrum of social needs and in a sustainable way, is a great challenge. To cope with this challenge calls for new and innovative strategies and practices related to policy, technology, economy, and everyday life.

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Target group
The seminar aim to gather researchers, students and PhD candidates engaged in energy research from a social scientific and humanities perspective. Contributions and participation from outside Norway are very welcome.

Key-note speakers

• Alan Irwin, Dean of Research, Copenhagen Business School: “Public engagement: Scientific governance and science-public relations”
• Noortje Marres, Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford: “Experiments in sustainable living: The role of domestic material practices and the co-articulation of participation”
• Steven A. Gabriel, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland: “Renewable Energy and Natural Gas, A good match or a mismatch?

Sessions

• Public acceptance, understanding of renewable energy technologies
• The renewable energy innovation system: innovation and learning
• Energy policy: Governance, commercialization and industrial development
• Energy markets and energy actors
• The cultural dynamics of new renewable energy technologies

Abstract submission
Researchers and PhD candidates are invited to submit abstracts according to the format described in call for abstracts to Tomas Moe Skjølsvold. Based on the submitted abstract, acceptance will be given for poster or oral presentation. A collecion of papers will also be published in the proceedings of the session on social studies of renewable energy. The deadline for submission is 1 March 2010.

Scientific committee

• Marianne Ryghaug, NTNU
• Thomas Berker, NTNU
• Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, NTNU
• Henrik Karlstrøm, NTNU
• Ingrid Øverås, NTNU
• Asgeir Tomasgard