Dr Hedda Ransan-Cooper
Areas of expertise
- Environmental Sociology 160802
- Social Change 160805
- Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology 160808
Biography
Hedda Ransan-Cooper leads the social science research activity within the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program (BSGIP).
Social science researchers contribute to the broader program in several ways including:
Working with colleagues from different disciplines to anticipate issues with the changing grid, and build key concerns and risks into technology design, contributing to broader debates around responsible research and energy justice.
Understanding how distributed energy resources are integrated (or not) into the grid, how are publics imagined and considered in future scenarios, how are different imaginaries of the future grid materialised in funding, technology design, public policy etc.
Dr Ransan-Cooper's expertise includes the social and political dimensions of community/neighbourhood batteries, and Australians' view and experiences of a range of domestic energy products and services including virtual power plants. She is interested in social innovations that facilitate co-benefits and inclusive/just outcomes for the transition to renewables.
Available student projects
I am interested in supervising students on topics surrounding the socio-political dimensions of energy transitions.
Current student projects
Kevin Chadwick. PhD. Working title: The behavioural economics of household energy decisions: Towards a predictably irrational choice model of decision making
Hugo Temby. PhD. Working title: Climate, code, and culture: The social worlds of smart energy technology projects in the Pacific
Anna Cain. PhD.
Matt Keighley. Masters of Energy Change. Working title: Sustainability of neighbourhood-scale battery business models: a comparative case study analysis
Past student projects
Hugo Temby (Masters of Applied Anthopology). Thesis title: Building block, or black box? ‘Smart’ energy technology and energy democracy
Hai Ha (Masters of Energy Change). Thesis title: Exploring energy justice in residential solar subsidisation in Vietnam: The case of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city.
Publications
- Ransan-Cooper, H, Sturmberg, B, Shaw, M et al. 2021, 'Applying responsible algorithm design to neighbourhood-scale batteries in Australia', Nature Energy, vol. 6, pp. 815-823.
- Ransan-Cooper, H, Lovell, H, Watson, P et al. 2020, 'Frustration, confusion and excitement: Mixed emotional responses to new household solar-battery systems in Australia', Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 70, pp. 1-10.
- Thornton, F, McNamara, K, Farbotko, C et al 2019, 'Human mobility and environmental change: a survey of perceptions and policy direction', Population and Environment, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 239-256.
- Suliman, S, Farbotko, C, Ransan-Cooper, H et al 2019, 'Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene', Mobilities, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 298-318.
- Fawcett, P, Jensen, M, Ransan-Cooper, H et al 2018, 'Explaining the "ebb and flow" of the problem stream: frame conflicts over the future of coal seam gas ("fracking") in Australia', Journal of Public Policy, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 521-541.
- Farbotko, C, McMichael, C, Dun, O et al. 2018, 'Transformative mobilities in the Pacific: Promoting adaptation and development in a changing climate', Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 393-407.
- Ransan-Cooper, H, Ercan, S & Duus, S 2018, 'When anger meets joy: how emotions mobilise and sustain the anti-coal seam gas movement in regional Australia', Social Movement Studies, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 635-657.
- Maslen, S & Ransan-Cooper, H 2017, 'Safety framing and compliance in relation to standards: Experience from the Australian gas pipeline industry', Safety Science, vol. 94, pp. 52-60.
- Ransan-Cooper, H 2016, 'The role of human agency in environmental change and mobility: a case study of environmental migration in Southeast Philippines', Environmental Sociology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 132-143.
- Lockie, S & Ransan-Cooper, H 2015, 'Biodiversity and Sustainable Development', in Michael Redclift and Delyse Springett (ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 123-135.
- Ransan-Cooper, H, Farbotko, C, McNamara, K et al 2015, 'Being(s) framed: The means and ends of framing environmental migrants', Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 35, pp. 106-115.
- Ransan-Cooper, H 2015, 'Negotiating risk and uncertainty: Internal migration and rural villagers in Albay Province', Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 507-539.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Southcoast u-grids Reliability Feasibility (SuRF) project (Secondary Investigator)
- Project Converge (Secondary Investigator)
- Neighbourhood Battery Initiative Research Partnership (Primary Investigator)
- Engaging the Broome community on a proposed community battery project (Primary Investigator)
- Social Research into new areas of complaint for consumers engaging in new energy products and services in Victoria (Primary Investigator)
- Community Models for Deploying and Operating Distributed Energy Resources. (Secondary Investigator)
