Presentations
Biographies of the speakers and seminar facilitators are provided below along with their presentation slides.
Andy Stephenson - Chair of the National Carbon Action Network Conference Chair
Andy Stephenson is the Current National Chair of CAN. Taking over in 2009, he was previously Chair for the North East Region for three years. In his day job at Durham County Council, he is their Low Carbon Strategy Officer whose role is to work across the Council and its Partners to ensure that the County meets its Carbon Reduction targets. He has been employed in many roles across the energy industry including Building Services Engineer, EEAC Centre Manager, Energy Manager and HECA officer giving him a wide range of knowledge in the industry and a viewpoint from strategic issues to installation. He is also a fully qualified Plumber though he only does work for family and friends these days.
Peter Chisnall, Climate Energy
Presentation Title: Sponsor's Address
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Peter is Partnership Development Manager at Climate Energy. A Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner, a Member of CIEH, CIWM, CIWEM, IOSH, CIBSE, EI and IOA. With Climate Energy for three years managing the EST East of England advice centre. Previously with Braintree District Council since 1988, as an Environmental Health Officer and seven years as Head of Waste Management and Resource Efficiency. Involved with HECA from the outset and, in 2004, was awarded the Eastern HECA Officer of the Year at the UK HECA conference for his work with Braintree, Essex and East of England local authorities.
Neil Marshall, Chief Executive - National Insulation Association
Presentation Title: National Insulation Association (NIA) support for Local Authorities
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Neil is the Chief Executive of the National Insulation Association which represents the manufacturers and installers of cavity wall insulation, external wall insulation, internal wall insulation, loft insulation and draught proofing. He was appointed to the position in February 2005 having previously held a number of senior management positions at British Gas in the areas of marketing, business development and corporate responsibility. Since he joined the NIA, its membership has more than doubled to over 170 companies and in 2007 he won the Trade Association Leadership Award in the Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards. Neil is a qualified marketer and member of the Trade Association Forum Steering Group, Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes Council, British Energy Efficiency Federation and the new Green Deal Accreditation and Installation Forum.
Bryan Glendinning, Chairman of the Grant Aided Heating Installers Network (GAIN)
Presentation Title: Grant Aided Heating Installers Network (GAIN)
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Bryan is a passionate business leader, who is enjoying his eleventh year in the fuel poverty arena, after serving his contracting and management apprenticeship in the construction industry. He originally started his career in fuel poverty with Eaga Plc in a Senior Management role. Working closely with installers, stakeholders and Government departments to ensure that expectations with regard to Warm Front targets were not only achieved, but exceeded and he puts this success down to great teamwork from the whole of the industry. In recent months he has taken on the exciting role of Managing Director of Cre8 Group, with strategic plans to maximise the renewable opportunities presented by Government, with such schemes as FIT, RHI and the Green Deal. As Chair of GAIN he is hoping he can continue the great work done to date by the organisation and lead the management board in propelling the association and the industry to be market leaders in the decarbonisation of the UK housing stock.
Jacqui Frazer, Northern Investing For Health Partnership, Northern Ireland
Presentation Title: Psychology of Fuel Poverty
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Jacqui has worked in both the voluntary and statutory sectors in the fields of community development, European funding, maternity services and fuel poverty. She is currently Fuel Poverty Strategy Co-ordinator for the Northern Investing for Health Partnership (NIfHP) in Northern Ireland. Jacqui’s role is to co-ordinate the implementation of the fuel poverty strategy by working with the members of the NIfHP’s Fuel Poverty Steering Group, a multi-agency partnership which includes ten local Councils, health and social care, energy providers, N.I. Housing Executive, EAGA and the University of Ulster.
Phil Beardmore, Localise West Midlands
Presentation Title: Can Green Deal end fuel poverty?
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Phil has nearly ten years’ experience of setting up and managing environmental and climate change projects. He set up the Birmingham Sustainable Energy Partnership and is now vice-chair of its successor, the Birmingham Carbon Reduction Partnership. Phil introduced the Green Doctor project to Birmingham and helped set up the Birmingham Social Enterprise Energy Network in 2005, which has led on the environmental social enterprise and green jobs agendas in Birmingham. Phil is the Treasurer of a housing co-operative and has many years’ experience as a charity trustee. In 2010 Phil was voted as one of the Top 50 Green Leaders in a competition organised by Sustainability West Midlands.
Abigail Burridge, Local Government Association
Plenary Presentation: LGA Government Update
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Workshop 1: Green Deal
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Abigail is a Senior Policy Officer for the Local Government Association, and is the policy lead on climate change mitigation, energy efficiency and fuel poverty. In this role, Abigail represents the interests of the local government sector to partners and government on climate change and energy. In her role she sits on the Government’s Fuel Poverty Advisory Group. Prior to working for the LGA, Abigail worked for the Greater London Authority in their Energy Team, bringing her experience of working for the London Borough of Havering for four years to City Hall. Abigail is an advocate for the role of local government, and has been an active member of the London environment and climate change officer networks for several years.
Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire
Workshop 2: Psychology & Best Practice in energy efficiency & climate change
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Dr Mike Page received a first-class degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University before completing a PhD in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. He then embarked on an academic career as a cognitive psychologist, initially as a scientist at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and, since 2000, as a Reader in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. In recent years, he has moved his research focus from the study of human memory to the topic of pro-environmental behaviour change. This change in direction was motivated as much by personal conviction as by his view that the mitigation of climate change is likely to involve equal parts of both engineering and psychology. He is the Director of the EASIER Project, which brings carbon-reduction advice to small and medium-sized businesses in the East of England. He is also Director of the CUBE Project, that involves the design and build of a small home in which one person can live with a minimum impact on the environment. He works as part of the Green Potential consultancy, a joint venture between the University of Hertfordshire and Exemplas Ltd., and regularly gives talks about personal carbon reduction under the heading “Your Carbon Counts”.
Julie Goodhew, Scientific Officer/PhD Student, University of Plymouth
Workshop 2: Psychology & Best Practice in energy efficiency & climate change
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Currently I am involved in research in Environmental Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Prior to this, I spent 20 years in FE education, teaching Business and Marketing and managing courses. I became deeply interested in the psychology of learning and behaviour, during this time and completed a Psychology degree in 2005, but got totally hooked by Psychology! In 2007, I started a p/t PhD in Environmental Psychology, focussing on the design of interventions promoting energy conservation behaviours. Having seen infrared images of homes losing heat, I became interested in the impact on the homeowner, of exposure to this style of vivid, often self explanatory and clear imagery. I am investigating this, as well as the impact that viewing these has on energy saving behaviours. In 2007-9, I worked with climate action groups in the South West on an initial pilot study and in 2009 joined forces with the Eden Project and Homebase/Argos to investigate the reaction of 100 homes across the UK. This led to a research series award from the RICS. I also work at the University of Plymouth in the School of Psychology; teaching and providing research support.
Piya Malik, National Energy Action
Workshop 3: Fuel Poverty & emerging policy issues
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Piya Malik is the Policy Campaigns and Parliamentary Officer for National Energy Action the UK based fuel poverty charity. As part of her portfolio at the charity she is also the co-ordinator for the All Party Parliamentary Fuel poverty and Energy Efficiency Group which is co-chaired by Caroline Lucas MP, Rebecca Harris MP and Kelvin Hopkins MP. She is co-Author of Collective Power- changing the way we consumer Energy published by the Co-operative Party of which she is an active member. Prior to this she studied for an MA in Affaires Européennes at Grande École supérieure Sciences Politique, Paris.
Tom Vosper, CEN Consulting
Workshop 4: Optimising investment in RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) &
FIT (Feed-in Tariff) technology
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Leading CEN’s public sector division, Tom advises clients on all aspects of energy efficiency and renewable energy from strategy to implementation. Tom oversees three teams of consultants who’s services to the public sector encompass energy, water, waste, transport and sustainable planning and policy. Tom has worked with schools, churches, communities, prisons, local authorities and housing associations. Tom has worked extensively on both new build, retrofit and research projects providing broad sustainability services as well as specialist advice in the fields of biomass and photovoltaic technology and detailed financial modelling. Tom joined CEN in 2004 after completing his Masters degree in Physics. Tom is a member of the Energy Institute and is currently studying for a Certificate in Energy Management.