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Dr Gareth Powells

Senior Lecturer

  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 6361
  • Address: 3.55 Henry Daysh Building
Background

I am a geographer with four interconnecting areas of research interest:

  1. Socio-Technical Innovation: My research has focused on the economic, social and ethical questions around innovations in sustainable energy and infrastructure networks.
  2. Everyday life: Central to my research is an ongoing interest in understanding what shapes everyday habits and practices, and their implications.
  3. Economic Geographies: I am interested in multi-scalar and spatially connective economies of places, systems and practices. 
  4. Integration of qualitative, quantitative and spatial data: I like the challenge of working with diverse data and research approaches and see this as central to my work as a researcher and teacher. 

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Teaching

I contribute to the following modules in human geography:

  • GEO2099: Economic Geography
  • GEO3158: Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • GEO2224 Urban Sustainability; Barcelona field course
  • GEO8000 Sustainable Global Futures
Research

My research in geography sits at the interfaces between social and technical disciplines, between qualitative and quantitative research approaches and between academics and stakeholders.

My research has recently focused on:

  1. Affordable Warmth - How can renewable and sustainable energy be affordable?
  2. Localisations - is the world deglobalising? If so, even if only partially, how can we understand those processes, the forces driving them and their consequences for people?
  3. Energy Systems - how can we understand and influence the development and re-design of sustainable energy infrastructures?
  4. Placing and Planning Practices - why do we do what we do where we do it?


I am keen to meet students and researchers at any career stage to develop new research.


Publications

  • Articles

    • Powells G, Scott M, Stockton H. . Energy Policy 2025, 207, 114870.
    • Herbert J, Powells G. . Globalizations 2023, 20(4), 548-563.
    • Copeland C, Turner B, Powells G, Wilson K. . Energies 2022, 15(15), 5340.
    • Scott M, Powells G. . Energy Research & Social Science 2020, 61, 101346.
    • Lovell H, Powells G. . Area 2020, 52(3), 583-590.
    • Scott M, Powells G. . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2020, 45(7), 3870-3882.
    • Powells G, Fell M. . Energy Research & Social Science 2019, 54, 56-59.
    • Bulkeley H, Powells G, Bell S. . Environment and Planning: A 2016, 48(1), 7-23.
    • Powells G, Bell S, Judson E, Lyon S, Wardle R, Capova K, Bulkeley H. . Energy Efficiency 2016, 9(3), 591-604.
    • Judson EP, Bell S, Bulkeley H, Powells G, Lyon S. . Science & Technology Studies 2015, 28(3), 26-53.
    • Bell S, Judson E, Bulkeley H, Powells G, Capova K, Lynch D. . Energy Research & Social Science 2015, 9, 98-106.
    • Powells G, Bulkeley H, Bell S, Judson E. . Geoforum 2014, 55, 43-52.
    • Powells G. The Political Economy of Sustainable Energy – By Catherine Mitchell. Geographical Journal 2009, 175(4), 315-316.
    • Powells G. Complexity, entanglement, and overflow in the new carbon economy: the case of the UK’s Energy Efficiency Commitment. Environment and Planning A 2009, 41(10), 2342 – 2356.

  • Book Chapters

    • Powells G, Blake L. . In: Evans, J; Karvonen, A; Raven, R, ed. The Experimental City. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016, pp.137-149.
    • Powells G, Bulkeley H, McLean A. . In: Marvin, S; Luque-Ayala, A; McFarlane, C, ed. Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.125-144.
    • Bulkeley H, Powells G, Bell S, Lyon S. . In: Strengers, Y.; Maller, C, ed. Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability: Beyond behaviour change. Abingdon: Routledge, 2014, pp.112-126.
    • Smith SJ, Searle B, Powells G. Introduction. In: Smith, SJ; Searle, B, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
    • Powells G. Housing Dynamics: Environmental Aspects. In: Smith, SJ, ed. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. San Diego: Elsevier, 2010, pp.429-435.

  • Edited Book

    • Hopkins P, 缅北禁地 Social Geographies Collective, Pain R, Shaw R, Gao Q, Bonnett A, Jones C, Richardson M, Rzedzian S, Benwell MC, Lin W, McAreavey R, Stenning A, Blazek M, Pande R, Najib K, Finlay R, Nayak A, Ridley G, Mearns G, Bonner-Thompson C, McLaughlin J, Boussalem A, Iqbal N, Heslop J, Jarvis H, Burrows R, Bambra C, Copeland A, Tate S, Campbell E, Thompson M, James A, Raynor R, Cunningham N, Powells G, Herbert J, Hocknell S, ed. . London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.

  • Report

    • Scott M, Powells G. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, UK: 缅北禁地, 2019.