Professor Lucie Middlemiss
Last modified: April 28, 2025
About
About the organisation(s) I've worked for
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University of LeedsAbout my experience and expertise
Personal statement:
I have 20 years of experience in research in the environmental social sciences, working mainly with qualitative methods, including researching lived experience and applying insights from that work to policy. I’m a natural theoretician – I’m in this business to help explain things! In recent years I’ve been working much more closely with policy-makers in various leadership roles and in research projects. I have particularly enjoyed setting up the Fuel Poverty Evidence initiative linking experts on this topic in and outside the academy, and working with various stakeholders on our relational energy projects.
Key topic areas of research or interest:
I focus on the intersection between environmental and social problems, with a particular interest in sustainable consumption, energy or fuel poverty and finding fair solutions in the Net Zero transition. My research connects deep understandings of consumption in everyday life, with planning, measuring, monitoring and interventions by policy-makers and practitioners. In recent years, I have established the Leeds relational energy group, bringing economic sociology into practical application in energy retrofit. I’m also a co-author of a book Just Climate Futures with Carolyn Snell out in 2025.
