My 2024 dissertation explored trust dynamics in the context of a battery energy storage (BES) project in Bristol. It argued that dominant framings of trust, which underpin policy on increasing the social acceptance of energy infrastructure, are overly linear, ignoring the complex interrelations between actors, contexts and technologies which engender trust, mistrust and distrust. The research interrogated how engagement approaches seek to build trust - as well as acceptance -

The Local Power Plan, published in February 2026, set out a vision for every community in the UK to have the opportunity to own a local power project. To achieve this goal, the Government also committed to consulting on introducing a mandatory approach to shared ownership offers. In Summer 2026, I collaborated with Community Energy England (CEE) to create a policy brief outlining the benefits of shared ownership of commercially-owned energy infrastructure, in the words of dev