Christina Bremer

Christina Bremer was awarded her PhD on 04/12/2023. ‘Exploring the Role of Digital Interventions in Realising Energy Savings’ investigated the use of digital technologies for effecting behavioural change in regard to building heating. Heating buildings is responsible for around 30% of global energy consumption. Christina researched the use of digital tools to affect domestic and institutional building energy use, taking the Lancaster University campus as one of her case studies. Her analysis showed that the effectiveness of digital tools were intrinsically linked to political judgments about power and control. Her ‘green policy informatics’ provide an alternative route to achieve ambitious climate policies through making these political judgments more visible. Her publications have been in the social end of computer science, with two at the major conference in the area (CHI – the conference on Computer Human Interaction), and a third in a major journal. Her thesis has research naturally led to her first employment with a sustainable energy start up, though she has now returned to scientific research with a research position on sustainable computing at Lancaster.