Community engagement workshops - Understanding Fuel and Transport Poverty and Associated Challenges for a Scottish Just Transition

Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation

Description

As part of a research collaboration between the University of Dundee and the University of Strathclyde with support from the Scottish Universities Insight Institute, we developed four workshops with urban and rural communities across Scotland, with the aim of understanding the links and joint challenges of fuel and transport poverty in Scotland, and to help enable a just transition to low carbon heat and mobility.

The four participatory workshops:
1st and 2nd workshops: urban/suburban (Glasgow and Dundee)
Dundee workshop co-organised with Dundee city council, 02. December 2022
Glasgow workshop co-organised with EHRA (Easterhouse), 03. February 2023 
3rd and 4th workshops: rural (Thurso and Castletown)
Highlands workshops co-organised with the Caithness Voluntary Group, 13. & 14. Feb 2023

Workshop outcomes include:
ranked list of challenges people face 
list of specific issues in their locality 
discussion of suggestions and potential solutions for these issues 
PeriodDec 2022 → Feb 2023
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • fuel poverty
  • transport poverty
  • community engagement
  • just transition
  • low carbon communities

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