Jenny von Platten

Jenny von Platten

Postdoctoral fellow, Doctor of Philosophy

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I am a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics. My main research interests lie within justice in the energy transition of housing and energy poverty; particularily how the energy transition is affecting current and future vulnerabilities to energy poverty among Swedish households.

During my PhD, I utilised national building stock data to conduct analyses of how costs and burdens of the energy transition of housing were being distributed between different socioeconomic groups. I particularily focused on how structural economic and housing-related inequalities - when left unrecognised - lead to structural injustices in the energy transition of housing, where inequlities in turn become reproduced.

In my postdoc, I am working within the JustHeat project, where we instead utilise qualitative methods, particularily oral histories, to explore how people have experinced past and present energy transitions of home heating. The aim is to nuance the official and grand narratives of heating transitions, and as such contribute to a more democratic writing of history. Through a better understanding of our past, we can improve the preconditions for achiving more just energy transitions in the present as well as in the future.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

UKÄ subject classification

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Energy Systems

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