TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krupnik, Seweryn
A1  - Wagner, Aleksandra
A1  - Vincent, Olga
A1  - Rudek, Tadeusz J.
A1  - Wade, Robert
A1  - Misik, Matúš
A1  - Akerboom, Sanne
A1  - Foulds, Chris
A1  - Smith Stegen, Karen
A1  - Adem, Çiğdem
A1  - Batel, Susana
A1  - Rabitz, Florian
A1  - Certomà, Chiara
A1  - Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna
A1  - Dokupilová, Dušana
A1  - Leiren, Merethe D.
A1  - Ignatieva, Frolova M.
A1  - Gabaldón-Estevan, Daniel.
A1  - Horta, Ana
A1  - Karnøe, Peter
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Loorbach, Derk A.
A1  - Mühlemeier, Susan
A1  - Némoz, Sophie
A1  - Nilsson, Måns
A1  - Osička, Jan
A1  - Papamikrouli, Louiza
A1  - Pellizioni, Luigi
A1  - Sareen, Siddharth
A1  - Sarrica, Mauro
A1  - Seyfang, Gill
A1  - Sovacool, Benjamin K.
A1  - Telesiene, Audrone
A1  - Zapletalova, Veronika
A1  - von Wirth, Timo
T1  - Beyond technology
BT  - a research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe
JF  - Energy research & social science
N2  - This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and expertise, the paper develops a set of 100 priority questions for future research within SSH scholarship on renewable energy sources. These questions were aggregated into four main directions: (i) deep transformations and connections to the broader economic system (i.e. radical ways of (re)arranging socio-technical, political and economic relations), (ii) cultural and geographical diversity (i.e. contextual cultural, historical, political and socio-economic factors influencing citizen support for energy transitions), (iii) complexifying energy governance (i.e. understanding energy systems from a systems dynamics perspective) and (iv) shifting from instrumental acceptance to value-based objectives (i.e. public support for energy transitions as a normative notion linked to trust-building and citizen engagement). While this agenda is not intended to be—and cannot be—exhaustive or exclusive, we argue that it advances the understanding of SSH research on renewable energy sources and may have important value in the prioritisation of SSH themes needed to enrich dialogues between policymakers, funding institutions and researchers. SSH scholarship should not be treated as instrumental to other research on renewable energy but as intrinsic and of the same hierarchical importance.
KW  - horizon scanning
KW  - research priorities
KW  - funding directions
KW  - EU Horizon Europe
KW  - research-policy interface
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102536
SN  - 22146296
VL  - 89
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -