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Update browserBy Dr Simon Batchelor. A new working paper by Prof Ed Brown and myself (S Batchelor), outlines why Covid 19 recovery plans should focus on an…
Read the full article, Cooking Health Energy Environment and Gender (CHEEG) - guiding Covid recovery plansBy Dr Nigel Monk, Dr Richard Blanchard and Dr John Barton (CREST, Loughborough University). Reducing the costs of cooking is one of the enablers to…
Read the full article, To insulate or where to insulate, which is the question? Side-by-side testing to assess the benefits of adding insulation to a commercial electric pressure cookerAs MECS country-level activities increase and expand, it is becoming increasingly relevant for researchers to decipher the policy instruments public institutions use to coordinate and…
Read the full article, Domestic cooking energy markets and the contingent role of public policiesIn our first piece of the new Leave No-One Behind (LNOB) blog series (introduction to the series here), Dr Amita Bhakta writes about how to…
Read the full article, Ensuring every body can cook: including people with disabilities in MECSBy Dr Joni Cook This blog discusses the central importance of the ‘Leave No-One Behind’ (LNOB) agenda to the aims and activities of the MECS…
Read the full article, The imperative for Leaving No-One Behind and the MECS programmeEditorial By Prof. Ed Brown, MECS Research Director. We are living through strange and uncertain times. There is not a country in the world that…
Read the full article, The MECS Programme in Unprecedented Times: Covid-19 and the MECS FamilyBy Jacob Fodio Todd (University of Sussex), Jon Leary (Loughborough University), Mourine Cheruiyot (ACTS), Jessie Press-Williams (Burn Manufacturing). In November 2019, a team from MECS…
Read the full article, Eating through power cuts with EPCsBy Dr Rob Byrne (MECS UK University partner project lead for the University of Sussex, and Senior Lecturer, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex)…
Read the full article, Solar’s past and e-cooking’s futureBy Matt Leach, MECS Gamos Associate, and Professor at the University of Surrey [This is a second (and final) blog relating to the biogas potential working…
Read the full article, Part 2. Bottled biogas: why isn’t the genie in the bottle yet?By Matt Leach, MECS Gamos Associate, and Professor at the University of Surrey A recent MECS working paper asks whether biogas in small cylinders has…
Read the full article, Part 1. Bottled biogas: why isn’t the genie in the bottle yet?By Dr Jaqi Lee, S2A Associates, Sustainability Systems Analysis Technology is wonderful, it has the potential to utterly transform peoples’ lives for the better. But in…
Read the full article, Which came first, the cook or the cooker?By Dr Jaqi Lee, S2A Associates, Sustainability Systems Analysis This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA There is a standing joke amongst…
Read the full article, It depends! The answer to life, the universe and everything