Hydrogen Economy

Project: SUPERGEN XIV Delivery of Sustainable Hydrogen (DoSH)

Outline: The £2.5m SUPERGEN XIV DoSH consortium included a social science work package based at Cardiff University which examined theories and evidence for green hydrogen innovation in the context of historic hype cycles. This work involved policy analysis including an understanding of the barriers to, and enablers of, the delivery of renewable infrastructure via national planning systems.

Funding: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Dates: 2010 to 2013
Research Institution: Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI), part of the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University.

Principal Investigator: Prof Ian Metcalfe (Newcastle University)
Co-Investigator: Prof Malcolm Eames (LCRI)
Research Assistant: Nick Hacking MSc

Role: I drew on Innovations Studies and Society Technology Studies (STS) literature to analyse 35 qualitative interviews in total in both countries from leading stakeholders including Daimler, Ford of Europe, Johnson Matthey, the European Commission, amongst others, alongside documentary material. I prepared conference papers, bid documents, costings and briefings.

Outputs:
2013 - I was a co-author of the Work Package Report.
2013 - I was sole author of a short peer-reviewed article in Material Architecture and Design (MADE) about a regional sustainability transition to hydrogen in Wales.
2017 - My PhD was completed on green hydrogen and fuel cell innovation.
2019 - I was the lead author on a 2019 peer-reviewed publication of my PhD findings for the UK in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.