Dr Louise Reid
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Geography
Biography
I gained my first degree, an MA(Hons) in Environmental Geography in 2003 at the University of Aberdeen, immediately followed by an MSc in Sustainable Rural Development (2004). From then until 2006, I worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Aberdeen and the James Hutton Institute (formally the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute) on interdisciplinary EU-funded projects. Having gained experience working as a researcher, I decided academia was for me, and completed an ESRC-Scottish Government funded collaborative PhD studentship in Human Geography entitled ‘Environmental behaviour change: a role for household diaries?’ (2010, University of Aberdeen).
I joined the University of St Andrews in 2010, initially as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Housing Research, before becoming a Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Geography in 2011, and Senior Lecturer in 2019.
I also hold the following roles:
- Vice-Chair of Hanover Housing Association
- Editorial Board member of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland
- Original Board member of the Environmental Sustainability Board at the University of St Andrews, and Co-Chair of the Operational Adaptation working group.
Teaching
Currently I am head of First Year Sustainable Development MA/BSc.
I am module co-ordinator for:
- SD1000 ‘What is Sustainable Development’
- SD1004 ‘Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities’
- SD3111 ‘Home and Energy Geographies’
- Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) ‘Environmental Ethics at Work’
I contribute to a range of other modules such as SS5101 ‘Being a Social Scientist’, GD5801 ‘Interrogating Sustainable Development’, SD3000 ‘Contesting Sustainability’, SD2001 ‘Sustainable Development: Frameworks for Implementation’ as well as dissertation supervision.
Research areas
My research surrounds home and its relations with sustainability and wellbeing/health, often in relation to ‘smart’ technologies. I am primarily interested in the experience of home but also how homes are imagined by a diverse range of people, and what this means for the future of home.
Between 2013-2018 I held an ESRC Future Research Leader’s Award ‘Smarter Homes’ when I investigated low carbon living in homes across the UK and Netherlands. The experience of smart technologies has been a key interest of mine and has evolved to also explore technology-enabled care at home, for instance via a RSE Sabbatical Research Fellowship ‘Homes that Care?’ (2019-2021) and Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant (2019-2021). I work with a range of collaborators, including at the James Hutton Institute (via ESRC collaborative PhD studentships 2016-2020, 2021-2024) and the University of Bonn (via a Global Doctoral Studentship 2022-2025).
PhD supervision
- Christopher Murray
Selected publications
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Open access
Anticipating technology-enabled care at home
Reid, L., Mar 2022, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 47, 1, p. 108-122 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Towards energy care ethics: exploring ethical implications of relationality within energy systems in transition
Damgaard, C. S., McCauley, D. & Reid, L., Feb 2022, In: Energy Research and Social Science. 84, 102356.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Demanding expectations: exploring the experience of distributed heat generation in Europe
Reid, L. & Ellsworth-Krebs, K., Jan 2021, In: Energy Research and Social Science. 71, 10 p., 101821.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Home as riskscape: exploring technology enabled care
Reid, L., Jun 2021, In: The Geographical Journal. 187, 2, p. 85-97Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The contribution of healthcare smart homes to older peoples' wellbeing: a new conceptual framework
Creaney, R., Reid, L. & Currie, M., 2021, In: Wellbeing, Space and Society. 2, 8 p., 100031.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collaborative decision-making in multi-buy food purchases
Anderson, C. G. & Reid, L. A., 10 Apr 2019, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 216, p. 520-527Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Home comfort and “peak household”: implications for energy demand
Ellsworth-Krebs, K., Reid, L. & Hunter, C. J., 27 Nov 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Housing, Theory and Society. Latest Articles, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Integrated framework for home comfort: relaxation, companionship and control
Ellsworth-Krebs, K., Reid, L. & Hunter, C. J., 17 Feb 2019, In: Building Research & Information. 47, 2, p. 202-218 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Nudge(ography) and practice theories: Contemporary sites of behavioural science and post-structuralist approaches in geography?
Reid, L. & Ellsworth-Krebs, K., 1 Apr 2019, In: Progress in Human Geography. 43, 2, p. 295-313 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Which ‘being’ in wellbeing? Ontology, wellness and the geographies of happiness
Smith, T. S. J. & Reid, L., 1 Dec 2018, In: Progress in Human Geography. 42, 6, p. 807-829 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review