UCL Energy Network launch event: 'the future of collaborative energy research'

On the 3rd April 2017 UCL Energy Network was launched with guest speakers from UCL, Government and industry discussing the history of collaboration, as well as how academia, industry and policy can navigate the rapidly changing academic, political and economic climate to ensure collaboration thrives in the future.

Speakers included:

• Professor Bob Lowe, Director of the UCL Energy Institute

• James Davey, Head of Evidence and Policy at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

• Dominique Bertin, Smart Energy Applications Manager, EDF Energy Research and Development

• Dr Simon Werrett, Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies

About the UCL Energy Network

Energy is fundamental to human development. In order to make this development sustainable, avoid catastrophic climate change and meet the needs of the global population, we must work to reduce net carbon emissions from the global economy to zero or below in the second half of the century.

Here at UCL we conduct cutting-edge inter-disciplinary research into the transition towards a low carbon economy. The UCL Energy Network is a new initiative launched to bring together this research to help foster collaboration and focus efforts towards strategic goals.