Louise King is a social scientist with a background in Climate Change and the Built Environment. She has an MSc in Property Management and a PhD in Social Practice implications for thermal comfort and building energy performance. Before coming to academia, Louise worked as a surveyor on mixed use development projects. She joined the University of the West of England as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment in 2015, teaching on Sustainability in the Built Environment and Healthy Sustainable Communities programmes, before working as a Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde and the University of the West of England in 2021.

Her research interests are grounded in interdisciplinary work, examining the socio-technical dimensions of energy consumption, the artefacts and materiality of energy use. Louise has worked on interdisciplinary research projects such as the regeneration of brownfield land, the development of a benchmark for the planning and management of green infrastructure (NERC) and designer perceptions of energy use in higher education buildings. She has expertise in qualitative research methods including visual methodologies and ethnographic studies.

Louise recently joined the University of Bath as a Research Associate to work on the EPSRC funded Flex-Cool-Store project led by Cardiff University.

Research Associate

Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations

Department of Psychology

University of Bath