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Dr Graeme Sherriff's Outputs (21)

‘Why would you swap your nice warm van, where you can eat your butties and listen to the radio?’ Mainstreaming a niche of cycle logistics in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Blazejewski, L., & Davies, N. (in press). ‘Why would you swap your nice warm van, where you can eat your butties and listen to the radio?’ Mainstreaming a niche of cycle logistics in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 99, 103062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103062

Due to a high level of dependency on fossil fuels, transport is not only a priority for decarbonsation but also a particularly challenging sector to decarbonise. Significant low-carbon energy transitions in mobility will require changes in practices,... Read More about ‘Why would you swap your nice warm van, where you can eat your butties and listen to the radio?’ Mainstreaming a niche of cycle logistics in the United Kingdom.

A Micromobility Buffet: E-Scooters in the Context of Multimodal Spaces and Practices in Greater Manchester (2023)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Lomas, M., Blazejewski, L., & Larrington-Spencer, H. (2023). A Micromobility Buffet: E-Scooters in the Context of Multimodal Spaces and Practices in Greater Manchester. Active Travel Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.16997/ats.1194

We use the Capabilities Approach to understand the ways in which e-scooters, as transportation resources, provide qualities that contribute to the ability of the transport system to enable people to participate in society. Government-led trials have... Read More about A Micromobility Buffet: E-Scooters in the Context of Multimodal Spaces and Practices in Greater Manchester.

Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides: A social prescribing framework for addressing fuel poverty and the social determinants of health (2022)
Journal Article
Lawler, C., Sherriff, G., Brown, P., Butler, D., Gibbons, A., Martin, P., & Probin, M. (2023). Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides: A social prescribing framework for addressing fuel poverty and the social determinants of health. Health and Place, 79, 102926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102926

Health services are increasingly being reshaped with reference to addressing social determinants of health (SDoH), with social prescribing a prominent example. We examine a project in the Outer Hebrides that reshaped and widened the local health serv... Read More about Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides: A social prescribing framework for addressing fuel poverty and the social determinants of health.

E-scooters in Greater Manchester (2022)
Journal Article
Sherriff, A., Blazejewski, L., & Lomas, M. (2022). E-scooters in Greater Manchester

This report presents the !ndings of a University of
Salford study focused on the shared e-scooter trial
taking place in Greater Manchester and launched in
autumn 2020. Sharing schemes are services that make
vehicles, such as e-scooters, available... Read More about E-scooters in Greater Manchester.

‘The reduction of fuel poverty may be lost in the rush to decarbonise’: Six research risks at the intersection of fuel poverty, climate change and decarbonisation (2022)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Butler, D., & Brown, P. ‘The reduction of fuel poverty may be lost in the rush to decarbonise’: Six research risks at the intersection of fuel poverty, climate change and decarbonisation. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.3776894798

As energy justice research develops and becomes increasingly international in reach and perspective, the climate emergency is an important layer of focus. Fuel poverty alleviation, climate change adaptation and decarbonisation are prominent agendas t... Read More about ‘The reduction of fuel poverty may be lost in the rush to decarbonise’: Six research risks at the intersection of fuel poverty, climate change and decarbonisation.

Mainstreaming Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Barriers to Upscaling City Farming (2022)
Journal Article
Hardman, M., Clark, A., & Sherriff, G. (2022). Mainstreaming Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Barriers to Upscaling City Farming. Agronomy, 12(3), 601. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030601

Urban Agriculture (UA), i.e., the production of crops or rearing of livestock in cities, is growing in popularity. Upscaled UA is increasingly gaining support from policy makers, funders, local authorities and other key actors across the globe. Radic... Read More about Mainstreaming Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Barriers to Upscaling City Farming.

Cold comfort : Covid-19, lockdown and the coping strategies of fuel poor households (2021)
Journal Article
Ambrose, A., Baker, W., Sherriff, G., & Chambers, J. (2021). Cold comfort : Covid-19, lockdown and the coping strategies of fuel poor households. Energy Reports, 7, 5589-5596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.08.175

The number of households experiencing fuel poverty is thought to have risen by at least 600,000 in the UK because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The concentration of fuel poor households in poor quality, energy inefficient accommodation that they... Read More about Cold comfort : Covid-19, lockdown and the coping strategies of fuel poor households.

From mobike to no Bike in Greater Manchester : using the capabilities approach to explore Europe’s first wave of dockless bike share (2020)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Adams, M., Blazejewski, L., Davies, N., & Kamerade, D. (2020). From mobike to no Bike in Greater Manchester : using the capabilities approach to explore Europe’s first wave of dockless bike share. Journal of Transport Geography, 86, 102744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102744

Globally, bike share schemes are an element of a rapidly changing urban transport landscape. Whilst many docked schemes are now embedded in cities around the world, the recent explosion of dockless systems provides an opportunity to evaluate claims t... Read More about From mobike to no Bike in Greater Manchester : using the capabilities approach to explore Europe’s first wave of dockless bike share.

Stuck at home in a cold home : the implications of Covid-19 for the fuel poor (2020)
Journal Article
Aimee, A., Baker, W., Brierley, J., Butler, D., Marchand, R., & Sherriff, A. (2020). Stuck at home in a cold home : the implications of Covid-19 for the fuel poor. People, Place and Policy, 14(1), 2-5. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2020.3447683949

Policies to address the impact of Covid-19 on low income energy consumers have rightly focussed on energy bills, particularly in the context of home confinement and increased energy consumption. In the longer term, however, we need policies to improv... Read More about Stuck at home in a cold home : the implications of Covid-19 for the fuel poor.

The rise of micromobilities at tourism destinations (2020)
Journal Article
Davies, N., Blazejewski, L., & Sherriff, G. (2020). The rise of micromobilities at tourism destinations. Journal of Tourism Futures, 6(3), 209-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-10-2019-0113

Purpose
This paper aims to identify the need for research that focuses on micromobilities at tourist destinations, charting their recent expansion and exploring development challenges.

Design/methodology/approach
This discussion draws together... Read More about The rise of micromobilities at tourism destinations.

The validity of the index of vulnerable homes : evidence from consumers vulnerable to energy poverty in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Castaño-Rosa, R., Sherriff, G., Solís-Guzmán, J., & Marrero, M. (2020). The validity of the index of vulnerable homes : evidence from consumers vulnerable to energy poverty in the UK. Energy Sources, Part B, 15(2), 72-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2020.1717677

Energy poverty is a multidimensional issue, and this means that it is difficult to understand the different levels of vulnerability to this phenomenon and its relationship with households’ quality of life. This paper presents the validation of an inn... Read More about The validity of the index of vulnerable homes : evidence from consumers vulnerable to energy poverty in the UK.

Transferring the index of vulnerable homes : application at the local-scale in England to assess fuel poverty vulnerability (2019)
Journal Article
Castaño-Rosa, R., Sherriff, G., Thomson, H., Guzmán, J., & Marrero, M. (2019). Transferring the index of vulnerable homes : application at the local-scale in England to assess fuel poverty vulnerability. Energy and Buildings, 203, 109458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109458

Fuel poverty, or energy poverty, has traditionally been associated with households that cannot afford to keep their homes adequately warm and/or cool due to low income and energy inefficient dwellings. Recent studies show a need for a good understand... Read More about Transferring the index of vulnerable homes : application at the local-scale in England to assess fuel poverty vulnerability.

Modernity, materiality and domestic technology : a case study of cooling and heating from South Australia (2019)
Journal Article
Goodchild, B., Ambrose, A., Berry, S., Maye-Banbury, A., Moore, T., & Sherriff, G. (2020). Modernity, materiality and domestic technology : a case study of cooling and heating from South Australia. Housing, Theory and Society, 37(3), 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2019.1600577

This paper uses oral history as an appropriate method to reveal how residents in the “green village” of Lochiel Park, South Australia, have changed their heating and cooling practises over their life courses. The analysis shows how concepts of modern... Read More about Modernity, materiality and domestic technology : a case study of cooling and heating from South Australia.

Urban agriculture in shared spaces : the difficulties with collaboration in an age of austerity (2019)
Journal Article
St Clair, R., Hardman, M., Armitage, R., & Sherriff, G. (2020). Urban agriculture in shared spaces : the difficulties with collaboration in an age of austerity. Urban Studies, 57(2), 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019832486

The expanding critical literature on Urban Agriculture (UA) makes links between the withdrawal of state services and the institutionalisation of volunteering, while observing that
challenging funding landscapes can foster competitive environments be... Read More about Urban agriculture in shared spaces : the difficulties with collaboration in an age of austerity.

Coping with extremes, creating comfort: user experiences of ‘low-energy’ homes in Australia (2019)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Moore, T., Berry, S., Ambrose, A., Goodchild, B., & Maye-Banbury, A. (2019). Coping with extremes, creating comfort: user experiences of ‘low-energy’ homes in Australia. Energy Research and Social Science, 51, 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.12.008

Low- and zero-energy homes are core elements in transitioning the housing stock towards a more environmentally sustainable model that responds to concerns about climate change and the need for energy demand reduction. Whilst there is a growing body o... Read More about Coping with extremes, creating comfort: user experiences of ‘low-energy’ homes in Australia.

Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices (2018)
Journal Article
Hardman, M., St. Clair, R., Adams, D., Armitage, R., Barry, V., Larkham, P., & Sherriff, G. (2018). Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices. North West geography (Online), 18(1), 1-10

Urban agriculture (UA) is a fast-increasing element in many settlements in the Global North. This paper reviews the diversity of UA activity, ranging from legal to illegal, formal to informal. Focusing particularly on current research on UA projects... Read More about Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices.

The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester (2017)
Journal Article
St Clair, R., Hardman, M., Armitage, R., & Sherriff, G. (2017). The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 33(6), 548-557. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170517000291

The rise of Urban Agriculture projects across the UK has led to a surge of interest in
their efficacy and resulting social impacts. Real Food Wythenshawe is a Lottery-funded
urban food project in the UK that aims to teach the population of Wythensh... Read More about The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

‘It’s normal to have damp’ : using a qualitative psychological approach to analyse the lived experience of energy vulnerability among young adult households (2017)
Journal Article
Butler, D., & Sherriff, G. (2017). ‘It’s normal to have damp’ : using a qualitative psychological approach to analyse the lived experience of energy vulnerability among young adult households. Indoor and Built Environment, 26(7), 964-979. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326X17708018

Seeking to promote methodological innovation in fuel poverty research, this paper reflects on the use of a novel qualitative psychological approach known as Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The benefits and limitations of this methodologica... Read More about ‘It’s normal to have damp’ : using a qualitative psychological approach to analyse the lived experience of energy vulnerability among young adult households.

Voting on sustainable transport: communication and governance challenges in Greater Manchester's ‘congestion charge’ referendum (2014)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G. (2014). Voting on sustainable transport: communication and governance challenges in Greater Manchester's ‘congestion charge’ referendum. Local Environment, 20(12), 1507-1530. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2014.911267

In December 2008, the Greater Manchester electorate voted to reject a £3 billion package of transport measures that would have included investment in the conurbation's bus, tram and rail networks and walking and cycling infrastructure, together with,... Read More about Voting on sustainable transport: communication and governance challenges in Greater Manchester's ‘congestion charge’ referendum.