Biography

Shane joined CES in 2006. His work on the H2 'Governance and Policy' strand of RESOLVE has explored the political economy of energy and environmental policy. A critical appraisal of UK energy policy 1945 to the present day involved an exploration of the policy transition from planned economy (command and control) to market economy.  The two major outputs from this period considered the ways in which this evolution has conditioned the currently evolving policy framework and the types of policies that represent emerging governance aims and objectives regarding climate change and energy security.  

The extension of this UK based project was an internationally scoped piece of research which considered the political evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the process of trying to coordinate an effective synthesis between diverse national energy regimes, aims and objectives, and the growing influence of global environmental regulation.  The main output from this project documents a series of case studies that consider this interaction in more detail and the problems involved in reaching international agreement on a global, low-carbon future. 

During his time as a RESOLVE research fellow, Shane has also worked on the EU Framework 7 BarEnergy project - a three year study that explored the relevance and strength of barriers to energy changes amongst end-consumers and households in six European countries.  The three work packages that formed the core of this research programme were designed and implemented as a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis and utilized stakeholder interviews, a consumer survey, and a series of focus groups.  Some of the findings to emerge from the study suggest that there are some overall trends that can be identified in consumer behaviour across the UK, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, and France, as participating countries.

More recently, I have been involved on the UNLOC project for CES.  UNLOC looks at 'place-based' action on sustainability issues and involves case study exploration of how emerging forms of energy governance at community and local authority level are beginning to transform the traditionally centralized UK energy landscape.

Research Interests

Shane originally came from a non-traditional academic background and went to the University of Glamorgan in 1998 where he studied sociology. After graduating from Glamorgan in 2001, he stayed on as a research assistant, spending a year developing and publishing research in the areas of European integration, the contemporary influence of civil society, the meaning of contemporary citizenship, and the global and domestic third way debate.  In 2009, Shane won the Surrey Lifelong Learner of the Year Award in recognition of his transition from blue collar employment to a career in academia.  Shane uses a political economy approach in his current work on energy and the environment.

Research Collaborations

Shane has worked with Professor Tim Jackson, Dr Yacob Mulugetta, and Dr Michael Peters on 'Paradigms, Policy and Governance: UK Energy Policy post-2000' and 'The Political Economy of the UNFCCC: Negotiating Consensus within the World Capitalist System'.  I have worked with Dr Michael Peters on 'Motivating Carbon Reduction in the UK: the Role of Local Government as an Agent of Social Change'.  I have also worked with six participating countries and institutions on the EU Framework 7 BarEnergy Project and am currently working in collaboration with the Oxford Institute for Environmental Change on the UNLOC project.

Publications

Journal articles 

• Dunkerley D. and Fudge S. (2004) 'European integration and civil society: a framework for analysis'. European Societies. 6:2
• Fudge S. and Williams S. (2006) 'Beyond left and right: can the third way deliver a reinvigorated social democracy?' Critical Social Policy. 32:4
• Fudge S. (2006) 'Objective 1 and community development: democratizing the economic and political landscape in south Wales?' Contemporary Wales 19
• Fudge S. and Dunkerley D. (2008) 'Appropriating Liberalism? Regimes of Accumulation and the role of Citizenship'. Theory and Action.  1:4
• Ying Yang L. and Fudge S. (2008) Environmental Values and Lifestyles of Young People in Kunming'.  Kunming University Journal 30:3
• Fudge S. (2009) 'Reconciling agency and structure: the contradictions and paradoxes of capacity building in Wales' 2000-2006 Objective 1 programme'. Critical Social Policy.  29:1
• Fudge S. and Peters M. (2009) 'Motivating Carbon Reduction in the UK: the Role of Local Authorities as Agents of Social Change'.  Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences.  6:2
• Peters M., Fudge S., and Sinclair P. (2010) 'Mobilizing Community Action towards a Low-Carbon Future: Opportunities and Challenges for Local Government in the UK'. Energy Policy Special Issue (Low Carbon Communities).

Book

• Peters M., Fudge S., and Jackson T. (eds) (2010) Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally.  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

Book chapters

• Peters M., Fudge S. and Jackson T. (eds) (2010) 'Preface and Introductory Remarks'.  In Peters M., Fudge S. and Jackson T. (eds) Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally.  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 
• Fudge S. (2010) 'The UK and International Policy Agendas for Climate Change, Carbon Reduction and Community Engagement'.  In Peters M., Fudge S. and Jackson T. (eds)  Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally.  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

Working papers 

• Fudge S, Hunt L, Jackson T, Mulugetta Y, and Peters M. (2008) 'The political economy of energy regulation in the UK 1945-2008: paradigms and policy'. RESOLVE working paper series
• Fudge S. and Mulugetta Y. (2008) 'Reconciling markets and governance: energy regulation in the UK 1989-2008. RESOLVE working paper series
• Fudge S. (2008) 'Governing environmental policy beyond the nation-state: reflexive modernization or business-as-usual?' RESOLVE working paper series
• Fudge S. (2008) 'Reconciling markets and governance: energy regulation in the UK 1945-2008. RESOLVE Working Paper Series 
• Peters M. and Fudge S. (2008) 'Local level policy-making for carbon reduction in communities: the role of local government as an agent of social change'.  RESOLVE Working Paper Series
• Fudge, S and Mulugetta, Y (2011)'Regulating Climate Change and Governing Environmental Risk in the EU: a Gramscian Framework for Analysis', RESOLVE Working Paper Series, 03-11, Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment, University of Surrey, Guildford.
• Fudge, S and Peters, M (2011), 'Dimensions of responsibility and agency in the UK climate change policy debate', RESOLVE Working Paper Series, 04-11, Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment, University of Surrey, Guildford.
• Fudge S., Mulugetta Y., Peters M. and Jackson T. (2011) 'The Political Economy of the UNFCCC: Negotiating Consensus Within the World Capitalist System'.  RESOLVE Working Paper Series 

Conferences 

• Mulugetta Y. and Fudge S. (2007) 'Policy conversations and climate change: the place of NGOs'. DANGO Conference, Birmingham University 5-6 July 2007
• Peters M. and Fudge S. (2008) 'Local level policy-making for carbon reduction in communities: the role of local government as an agent of social change'. SCORE Conference, Brussels 10-11 March 2008

• Fudge S. (2008) Regulating risk climate change and governing environmental risk in the EU.  Energizing Europe Conference.  16-17 May  2008 BERR London

• Fudge S. and Peters M. (2008) Negotiating the macro and the micro policy terrain towards a low-carbon economy.  Climate change impacts and adaptation: dangerous rates of change.  22-24 September 2008.  Met Office/University of Exeter
• Fudge S. (2008) The political economy of energy regulation in the UK 1945-2007: paradigms and policy.  7^th BIEE Academic Conference: The New Energy Challenge: Security and Sustainability.  24-225 September 2008. St John’s College, Oxford
• Fudge S. (2008) The impact of the Landfill Tax, the Climate Change Levy and the Aggregates Tax.  Invited talk at the Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry Conference.  30^th September 2008.  Rembrandt Hotel, Central London
• Fudge S. (2009) Reaching consensus on a global, low-carbon future: the long and winding road to Copenhagen.  RESOLVE Conference: Sustainable lives?  The challenges of low-carbon living in a changing economic climate.  18^th June 2009.  New Connaught Rooms, London
• Fudge S. (2009) Reducing carbon emissions through demand end initiatives: how realistic is it for behaviour change to bridge the policy gap? First European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Behaviour.  Maastricht, The Netherlands.  18/10/09
• Fudge S. (2010) ‘Governing the consumer-policy interface: rationality, responsibility and complexity’.  Behaviour Change, Energy and Climate Change Comference (BECC).  Hyatt Regency, Sacramento, USA.  15^th – 18^th November

Teaching

Teaching on CES MSc modules on 'Sociology of Environment' and 'Environment and Development'

Departmental Duties

Research representative for CES on academic staff meetings