Tina Fawcett

Tina Fawcett is an Associate Professor and Deputy Leader of the energy research team at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

Tina Fawcett's research concerns energy use by households and organisations. She uses a multi-disciplinary approach to understand current patterns of use, and to identify opportunities and policies for reducing energy use and carbon emissions.

Tina is leading social research in EDOL (Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory), a major five-year project collecting high-quality, longitudinal quantitative and qualitative data from over 2,000 UK households (2023–2027). She is also contributing to the EPSRC Network for the Decarbonisation of Heating and Cooling. Other ongoing research includes analysis of pre-payment meter users and fuel poverty, reconsidering the balance between investment in retrofit and low-carbon heating systems, and developing thinking on sufficiency in energy services. In addition, Tina is involved in climate change education research and outreach initiatives, most recently as part of the Museum of Climate Hope team.

Tina is the Convenor of the Oxford Energy Network which brings together energy researchers across the university and facilitates knowledge exchange with industry, policy makers and civil society.

Tina led the 'policy and governance' theme in the Centre for Research on Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) from 2018 to 2023. Her research work within CREDS focused on policy for further, faster and more flexible delivery of energy demand reduction, particularly in relation to buildings energy use. She also worked on Energy Superhub Oxford, a large demonstration project trialling smart local energy systems, and M-BENEFITS, an EU H2020 project on the multiple benefits of energy efficiency for businesses.