Dr Yolande Strengers
Senior Research Fellow
Global, Urban and Social Studies
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Yolande is a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research, where she co-leads the Beyond Behaviour Change research program.Yolande’s research is clustered around a series of applied research projects focused on smart technologies, energy demand and sustainability. At RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research, Yolande co-leads the Beyond Behaviour Research Program, which works with project partners to identify ways of intervening in practices to achieve sustainability outcomes. Her work is applied and interdisciplinary in focus, spanning the fields of sociology, science and technology studies and human computer interaction design. Past projects have investigated how new and old technologies such as Telepresence, smart grids, smart meters, energy and water systems, air-conditioners and housing infrastructures are reshaping and shaped by the ways we live and work.
Research Interest
Social practice theory
Publications
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 Electricity pricing, heatwaves and household vulnerability in Australia
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 How to gain traction? From theoretical scholarship to applied outcomes in energy demand research and housing research
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 Adapting to 'extreme' weather: mobile practice memories of keeping warm and cool as a climate change adaptation strategy
